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Post by daylilydude on May 7, 2017 18:35:19 GMT -5
a tomato plant can grow and produce fruit with only 4 to 5 hrs. of direct sunlight?
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Post by paulf on May 7, 2017 19:37:48 GMT -5
Sure, but expect the production and size to be diminished a bit. I had raised beds where sections got direct sun for 4 hours and dappled sunlight for the rest of the day and they did OK.
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Post by bestofour on May 9, 2017 20:51:03 GMT -5
I don't have a "do you think question" but I have a "what does it mean" question and don't know where else to put it. Move it or delete it if need be. Won't hurt my feelings one bit.
What does it mean when a tomato plant is only 2 feet tall but already has tiny, green tomatoes on it. If the tomatoes get large they'll cause the plant to fall over because it's so tiny.
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Post by daylilydude on May 10, 2017 3:38:12 GMT -5
bestofour, what variety of tomato is this? And this is just me but on a plant that small I would have plucked the blooms off so it could spend it's time with roots and growth. Now I may be wrong in this and if I am, I hope someone lets us know, but when a tomato plant is that small and is trying to make seed which is basically what a tomato is... it means it is/was under some kind of stress and is trying to make seed before something bad happens...
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Post by paulf on May 10, 2017 7:45:16 GMT -5
If this is a young plant as well as a small plant I agree with daylilydude. I pull off the small fruits and blossoms until the plant is in the soil a few weeks and has established itself.
If the plant is established and starts putting on fruit that may mean it is one of the dwarf project plant and that is a cool thing.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 10, 2017 10:23:54 GMT -5
I agree with Paulf here. If you look at the plant, you can usually see the difference between a healthy dwarf and a small plant that is trying to fruit too young as a result of stress. And of course you know how long ago you transplanted it so you know whether it's had time to establish its root system. In practice, I have rarely found it necessary to pluck tomato blooms. But with peppers, especially bells and other large-fruited peppers, I think it is much more important to pluck those too-early blooms. You want a pepper plant to be good 12"-18" tall (unless it's a naturally small variety) and well-branched before letting it set fruit. Fruit size and overall yield will really suffer if you let a tiny and/or stressed pepper plant start to fruit. EDIT: I just wanted to add that it is amazing how much fruit some of those dwarf plants produce compared to their size! Very cool little plants, indeed.
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Post by bestofour on May 10, 2017 16:31:41 GMT -5
This is one of the volunteer tomatoes and I didn't even notice it had blooms. It's so short it never occurred to me to look closely.
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