Some of the flowers fail to produce a tomato.




"Ian Pollard" wrote in message
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On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:02:36 +0100, "Angela" wrote:


"Ian Pollard" wrote in message
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| On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:52:34 +0100, "alan.holmes"
| wrote:
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| "Ian Pollard" wrote in message
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| Hi
| I live in the UK and have just planted six tomato plants in my
| greenhouse.(Rather belated) All seemed fine until the flower on
three
| of the plants has turned into a single green sphere. Any ideas
please
| on what has happened and what I should do about this. I know it
is not
| a tomato, but what is it?
|
| How can you be so sure it is not a tomato, what do you expect a
tomato to
| look like?
|
| It sounds to me just like an unripe tomato!
|
| Tomatoes usually come in bunches ,don't they. This is on its own
and
| has replaced a flower! I'm new to this so don't take anything for
| granted.
|
| Ian

You only get one tomato per flower, you don't get a bunch per flower.
What
you are seeing is a baby tomato.

OK. That is good enough for me. There seemed to be more than one
flower though.

Ian