My red cherry tomatoes have yellow flowers for now 3-4 weeks. When should I be expecting tomatoes?
Question:I have been faithfully watering my tomato plants every other day. It is receiving a lot of sun and been growing nicely. Flowers have been bloomed now for several weeks and I am wondering when I should be expecting tomatoes. I was told that it should be a week after the flowers has bloomed, but it is now nearly 4 weeks. Please let me know what I should do to help develop the tomatoes. I purchased two tomato plants from a nursery and transferred them to a large pot and they are now about two feet tall erected with a tomato cage.
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you seem to be doing the right thing, only water every day, and three times a week with tomatorite fertiliser, tiny toms will appear after the flowers fade, good luck
You need to feed the plants now that they are in bloom - liquid tomato feed diluted.
First, is it warm where you live? Tomatoes need night temperatures that are in the 50s to set fruit.
If the temps are OK, try this: in the morning, go out and SHAKE your plants gently. This sometimes helps tomato plants to self-pollinate. Do this for several days.
Good Luck!!
You probably have no bees in the area to pollinate the flowers. Take a q-tip (cotton swab) and rub the flowers, moving from flower to flower with the same tip. This simulates what a bee does to pollinate the flowers, which is needed to develop the fruit.
Its just waiting there is nothing more you can do. They may be taking longer because they aren't used to the different temperature.
Tomhaslisa has it right!!
You got no pollinators...bees, butterflies, etcs..use a q-tip like his advises..I had to do thing very same thing with my cucumber plants last year.
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Are your tomatoes in a greenhouse where no insects can come and pollinate the tomato flowers? If so, then you have to tap the plants, midday is best when the "pollen of the day" is loose and ready to fall. If outside, then the plants should at least have a breeze to shake them to set the pollen free. Are the flowers still on the plants? Maybe you are just impatient. Flowers that have been pollinated will remain on the plant, and those that are not, will fall off. Give the flowers a chance to open properly, and good luck. In the winter, we had to whack the wires daily at midday to "shake" the plants to promote pollination.
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