You might also try slapping them. Don't hit them hard enough to break the
plants, but enough to get their attention. That tip was in a "Growing
Tomatoes" hand book. We have tried it and it worked.
It will also depend on whether the seeds used to product your plants were
determinate or indeterminate. Indeterminate will bloom and put on tomatoes
all year, the rest put them on once and then quit.
Dwayne
"Nick Apostolakis" wrote in message
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Sue wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2005 22:16:20 -0400, Penelope Periwinkle
wrote:
Around here, in South Carolina, it gets very, very hot in July
and August, and most tomatoes stop producing. If I can keep the
plants going until September, I usually see a second flush of
tomatoes, With a late frost, I can get a decent second crop.
Or, I *used* to see that. Since the War of the spit!Thrips
began, I'm lucky to see tomatoes at all. I have, however, removed
their reservoir, the place they gathered strength while waiting
for me to set out my purty lettle tomato plants. I have removed
all three of the mulberryless mulberry trees, and am diligently
destroying all signs of sproutlets from the roots. Maybe, maybe
this year, I'll have fall tomatoes.
Anyway, I would suggest looking into varieties that were bred to
produce in the heat.
Next year. My favorites are the Sweet 100s (cherry type). They seem
to do OK in the heat. I haven't had enough regular sized ones in the
last couple of years to can.
Sue
Penelope
hello,
i had one similar problem recently . the tomato plants were very big and
the tomato production quite low. one tomato in about 12 plants.
what i did was to prune the plants enough to increase the sun,air,
insect penetration in the plants and push them from leaf and stem
production to fruit production.
all these happened two weeks ago. now each plant has 5 or more fruits
without any other interference from me. since i live in Crete Greece our
days are quite hot and the plants dont seem to mind. when we have only
25 degrees of celsius it is a cool day.
i hope this helps a bit
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