I am in need of advice again please, I have grown some Pomodoro Cuor Di Bue (forgive my spelling), the plants are still only about six inches high, but some of them are getting little flower buds. Is the normal? do I pick these off?
Thanks again for your time.
Jeanne
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Jeanne
Only if you don't want tomatoes
They're putting on their first trusses. Look after them, feed them and they'll grow. Cuor di Bue is a very tasty meaty tomato.
Alan
Only if you don't want tomatoes
They're putting on their first trusses. Look after them, feed them and they'll grow. Cuor di Bue is a very tasty meaty tomato.
Alan
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Dear Jeanne, you should be very proud that your toms have got a flower truss at that height of plant.
It means you are growing them very well.
It means you are growing them very well.
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My tomatoes have gone crazy. I usually set the seed off in mid January but this year left it until the last week in February/first week in March.
The blasted things are up to two feet high and flowering all over the place. I've had to transplant 110 of them into 8" pots with the remainder planted out in the "cold" greenhouse which I've now had to heat too. They're going to be fruiting before I can plant them out at this rate.
Last year the ones sown 6 weeks earlier weren't this big by June!
The blasted things are up to two feet high and flowering all over the place. I've had to transplant 110 of them into 8" pots with the remainder planted out in the "cold" greenhouse which I've now had to heat too. They're going to be fruiting before I can plant them out at this rate.
Last year the ones sown 6 weeks earlier weren't this big by June!
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I've got some in pots in the greenhouse that are about a foot tall but no sign of flowers anywhere although they've started producing side shoots. I'm going to grow them in the border soil and wonder whether I should plant them out now, or continue to wait for flowers. Will a general feed help promote flower growth?
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I think the general advice is to start feeding only when the first flower truss appears.
I'm itching to get my tomatoes out and into the ground (the Tumblers have little flower buds on them though the Sungolds and Gardener's Delights don't). Would this be crazy in sheltered west-facing raised beds in London?
I'm itching to get my tomatoes out and into the ground (the Tumblers have little flower buds on them though the Sungolds and Gardener's Delights don't). Would this be crazy in sheltered west-facing raised beds in London?
Hi Jeanne,
Strangely there is a pointed cabbage with the same name Cour di Bue which is fantastic giving a very heavy little cabbage.
I feel that you have your Tomatoes in a state which most people strive for so don't worry a bit. They will be just great.
JB.
Strangely there is a pointed cabbage with the same name Cour di Bue which is fantastic giving a very heavy little cabbage.
I feel that you have your Tomatoes in a state which most people strive for so don't worry a bit. They will be just great.
JB.
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Bigpepperplant, I'm not too far away from you in South Bucks and have planted some of my bigger, slightly leggy tomatoes out in a sheltered south facing garden border. However, I've got them covered with 1.5 litre mineral water bottles as cloches. These past few days it's been warm enough to leave them out during the daytime uncovered but they are covered up from about 5 p.m when the evening temperature drops. Unless you can cover them with fleece, I'd be a little wary of leaving them totally exposed. I've occasionally done this with some of mine in the past but low temperatures really knock them back so much that the risk isn't worth it, especially if you've put all that effort into sowing and germinating them from scratch.
This mainly a response to Chantel:
I sowed my cordon tomatos on the 19th of febuary this year. Bye-the-why, i repeat what i have said on other posts. i use a Bio-Green propagator set up in glasshouse.This is basically a heat-mat. My tomatoe plants have been in glasshouse from the start.
They are 7 -10 inchs tall. Real beautys if i can say so myself. I have noticed in last 10 days that they are starting to bud up. no actual flowers yet. look to be on good schedule for a mid/late May planting out.
I am wondering have i stumbled upon something though. other years i have found that my plants, from bud formation to flower formation seems to be alot quicker.
We had a very unusually hot, clear April. rained only once in three weeks here in Wexford (Ireland).
But i was noticing the temperature in the Glasshouse were going over 40c.
My glass house runs in a north to south direction from the door.
So i decide to get some 'coolshade' and shade all the top and half way down the back glass (on the south)in early April.
I then positioned my tomatoes (on the bio-green) on the West side of Glass house. Now apart from early morning or afternoon the glasshouse is shaded with diffuse light.
1)the plants are still getting max daylight hours
2)temperatures rarely go above 33c
3)all the variuos plants look healther and greener, ie no sunscorch.
4)? Is it holding back flower formation on my tomatos.. feeling it is!
I repotted them in 4" pots early April, and at present feed with maxicrop (seaweed extract) every watering. I may give one shot (never done) of a balanced NPK feed if i see any signs of food shortage. But Maxicrop as far as i am aware has small amounts of npk anyhow.So will have to see.
Speaking of flower formation. If your plants were allowed to dry out, this could induce flower formation more rapidly. Indeed letting plants dry out for a few days is a method to induce flowering in 'late' tomato plants by some gardeners.
I sowed my cordon tomatos on the 19th of febuary this year. Bye-the-why, i repeat what i have said on other posts. i use a Bio-Green propagator set up in glasshouse.This is basically a heat-mat. My tomatoe plants have been in glasshouse from the start.
They are 7 -10 inchs tall. Real beautys if i can say so myself. I have noticed in last 10 days that they are starting to bud up. no actual flowers yet. look to be on good schedule for a mid/late May planting out.
I am wondering have i stumbled upon something though. other years i have found that my plants, from bud formation to flower formation seems to be alot quicker.
We had a very unusually hot, clear April. rained only once in three weeks here in Wexford (Ireland).
But i was noticing the temperature in the Glasshouse were going over 40c.
My glass house runs in a north to south direction from the door.
So i decide to get some 'coolshade' and shade all the top and half way down the back glass (on the south)in early April.
I then positioned my tomatoes (on the bio-green) on the West side of Glass house. Now apart from early morning or afternoon the glasshouse is shaded with diffuse light.
1)the plants are still getting max daylight hours
2)temperatures rarely go above 33c
3)all the variuos plants look healther and greener, ie no sunscorch.
4)? Is it holding back flower formation on my tomatos.. feeling it is!
I repotted them in 4" pots early April, and at present feed with maxicrop (seaweed extract) every watering. I may give one shot (never done) of a balanced NPK feed if i see any signs of food shortage. But Maxicrop as far as i am aware has small amounts of npk anyhow.So will have to see.
Speaking of flower formation. If your plants were allowed to dry out, this could induce flower formation more rapidly. Indeed letting plants dry out for a few days is a method to induce flowering in 'late' tomato plants by some gardeners.
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Thanks for all that ( ).
My plants have never even slightly dried out and still have their seed leaves to prove it.
They were started in a propagator and then moved out into a heated greenhouse when they had four leaves.
They were potted into 3" pots when they were around an inch high.
They then went off like rockets.
They've never dropped below 10C at night and haven't been scorched during the day.
They're all now in 8" pots.
There are lots more flowers now and some of them are approaching 3ft high.
I've not fed them yet but I guess I'll have to this weekend.
And have some sympathy for poor Seedling who's going to have to look after this lot next week.
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My plants have never even slightly dried out and still have their seed leaves to prove it.
They were started in a propagator and then moved out into a heated greenhouse when they had four leaves.
They were potted into 3" pots when they were around an inch high.
They then went off like rockets.
They've never dropped below 10C at night and haven't been scorched during the day.
They're all now in 8" pots.
There are lots more flowers now and some of them are approaching 3ft high.
I've not fed them yet but I guess I'll have to this weekend.
And have some sympathy for poor Seedling who's going to have to look after this lot next week.
Chantal
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'They were started in a propagator and then moved out into a heated greenhouse when they had four leaves.'
Could this be the cause then? Sounds like it. ie. plants got stretched from being in house in early stages. Inadequate light?
On the issue of shading; with the way i have gone about shading only top and half back of glasshouse, my tomatoe plants get the full western sun shining on them from about 4 o'clock i think.
Could this be the cause then? Sounds like it. ie. plants got stretched from being in house in early stages. Inadequate light?
On the issue of shading; with the way i have gone about shading only top and half back of glasshouse, my tomatoe plants get the full western sun shining on them from about 4 o'clock i think.