Bah...great start to plants, bad timing on flowering

Anthony_Toronto · July 2, 2015

Put plants in early, made it through one night of threatening frost, and plants were about three or four weeks ahead of last year...a few greenhouse-purchased plants flowered about a week earlier than mine and are covered with fruit, but by the time mine were covered with flowers we had a streak of heat and humidity...thought they made it through ok but plants that should have 20-25 fruits on them have 3 to 5, with nothing but stumps where flowers used to be. No changes to soil this year, almost no fertilization at all compared to prior years because of how nice the early growth went. Anyone else in southern Ontario have a lot of blossom drop to date? At least the few fruits I have should be able to hog the photosynthesis and grow large and tasty.

July 2, 2015	#1
Anthony_Toronto Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Toronto Posts: 413	Bah...great start to plants, bad timing on flowering Put plants in early, made it through one night of threatening frost, and plants were about three or four weeks ahead of last year...a few greenhouse-purchased plants flowered about a week earlier than mine and are covered with fruit, but by the time mine were covered with flowers we had a streak of heat and humidity...thought they made it through ok but plants that should have 20-25 fruits on them have 3 to 5, with nothing but stumps where flowers used to be. No changes to soil this year, almost no fertilization at all compared to prior years because of how nice the early growth went. Anyone else in southern Ontario have a lot of blossom drop to date? At least the few fruits I have should be able to hog the photosynthesis and grow large and tasty.