What proportion of the tress should set fruit?

emcd124 · August 1, 2013

I've read before about how with large variety tomatoes they intentionally make more flowers but after they set three fruits on a tress the other flowers abort. I'm wondering if there is something like that with cherry tomatoes too. In particular I have a blondkopfchen and a reisenstraube that both set a gazillion flowers, but it seems visually like no more than one in five sets fruit. I'm wondering how much I can blame that on low pollinators in my neighborhood (and therefore how much I could fix by either shaking the trusses or whatever the toothbrush method is).

Any rules of thumb out there? Advice?

August 1, 2013	#1
emcd124 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: South Bend, IN Posts: 104	What proportion of the tress should set fruit? I've read before about how with large variety tomatoes they intentionally make more flowers but after they set three fruits on a tress the other flowers abort. I'm wondering if there is something like that with cherry tomatoes too. In particular I have a blondkopfchen and a reisenstraube that both set a gazillion flowers, but it seems visually like no more than one in five sets fruit. I'm wondering how much I can blame that on low pollinators in my neighborhood (and therefore how much I could fix by either shaking the trusses or whatever the toothbrush method is). Any rules of thumb out there? Advice?