Philadelphia area gardening thread

Fiishergurl · July 30, 2016

So something crazy happened. My Wes plant which had about 15 huge tomatoes on it had quit setting tomatoes for a while which was fine. The blossoms for a while had not been setting new fruit. I assume it was because of lack of sun and all the energy it was putting into the existing fruit. But after I pruned a couple of weekends in a row and topped the plants and removed all suckers It set about 20 of the remaining blossoms i left on it. These new tomatoes are already bigger than pea size, (almost marble size) so they are definitely fertilized and growing.

I have no idea if these will ripen within the 60 days we have left here but i sure hope so. It seems all of the plants panicked and set quite a few of the remaining flowers after I trimmed suckers and topped them. I had left any mature blossoms but removed immature ones.

There's about 5 or 6 clusters like this...

Below is one of the almost ready to ripen fruit... well over a pound.

Ginny

July 30, 2016	#11
Fiishergurl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Oak Hill, Florida Posts: 1,781	So something crazy happened. My Wes plant which had about 15 huge tomatoes on it had quit setting tomatoes for a while which was fine. The blossoms for a while had not been setting new fruit. I assume it was because of lack of sun and all the energy it was putting into the existing fruit. But after I pruned a couple of weekends in a row and topped the plants and removed all suckers It set about 20 of the remaining blossoms i left on it. These new tomatoes are already bigger than pea size, (almost marble size) so they are definitely fertilized and growing. I have no idea if these will ripen within the 60 days we have left here but i sure hope so. It seems all of the plants panicked and set quite a few of the remaining flowers after I trimmed suckers and topped them. I had left any mature blossoms but removed immature ones. There's about 5 or 6 clusters like this... Below is one of the almost ready to ripen fruit... well over a pound. Ginny Last edited by Fiishergurl; July 30, 2016 at 09:40 AM.