Tomatoes

[nikkie]

Anyone elses plants flowering?

Blimey, nowhere near!!

I abandoned the ones I was growing from seed in favour of some from the garden centre. My seedlings are only around 2" tall and the garden centre ones are 6" if I'm lucky!

No, our seedlings have grown loads this week, but are still max 6" high.

These are the ones from the garden centre, myown 'from seed' ones ar still tiny. I have some garden centre ones inside and some outside and both are flowering.
My strawberries and my chillies are too!

can i plant them if i dont have a green house?

I've grown them indoors NAO and they came out brilliantly.
Just had to kind of flick or touch the flowers to stimulate the pollen. Sort of doing the bees job IYKWIM. It helps apparently.

This is the first year I have grown them indoors (plastic greenhouse thing) and they have always done really well.

or outdoors, ours are on the patio in growbags. Not flowering yet tho' !

inspired by this thread, i went out and bought 2 tomato plants at the garden centre today.

Blimey - not even planted them yet!!

Have to say my own are still seedlings, the flowering ones were from the garden centre !

Otter, mine are in a greenhouse and there's not even a wee bit of green to be seen!

I need to pot mine on, they're about 6" at the mo, and getting bored of their little pots....but then they'll be grow bag outside jobs and if I put them out in our wind trap garden before mid June they'll die horribly anyway!

I,ve had 4 tomato plants from a friend a couple of days ago about 4 inches high but they're not flowering yet.Haven't planted them in the growbags yet.I've also got a tumbler variety (just the one) from the garden centre to put in a pot in the patio as that always seems to produce tomatoes more quickly than anything else.

Want to get some for DS, who can eat his own body weight daily in tomatoes. If I get some from the garden centre, how long will it be before they are grown and ready to eat.

They will be outside in gro bags. We live in Portugal, so is currently about 30º and very sunny, will probably stay that way now until oooooh, maybe October. Shall I put them in sun or shade?

Thanks

IME for England usually ready by July lasting until September, no idea for Portugal, they may tell you at the garden centre?

Apart from the re-potting I've not put a lot of work into mine,water every (dry) night and feed once a week, I've been eating the tomatoes for weeks

yep, we even have small toms, stil green obviously !

chocolatequeen, this is perfect weather for toms. Plant them in the sun but be careful to water them everyday after the sun's gone down.

my biggest tomato is just a bit bigger than a grape at the mo and green.

I am watering several times ad ay in this heat - they dry out so quickly in grow-bags.

Feeding weekly (as it says on the carton of tomato food)

Have pinched out side shoots and growing tip after 4/5 trusses.

plants are 3 to 4 feet high now

i have flowers on mine but will go home tonight and look for baby toms. [squint emoticon]

I have got LOTS of baby tomatoes < - being closets thing to swanky baby tomato emoticon>. (Actually, should be , being swanky green tomato emoticon).

What is this malarky re pinching out the tops after five trusses - my Dad was trying to explain it yesterday. I think he said if there are more than 5 clusters of fruit vertically (even if they are anywhere on the plant) then you stop them growing any more? Is this right.

Kiskidee I take your [squint emoticon] and raise you a [squint at tomatoes when you are trying to count trusses when don't relly know what your Dad is talking about, you are not entirely sure what a truss is, its dusk and you've had a couple of glasses of wine emoticon].