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Old 20-06-2011, 01:40 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default tomatoes not flowering

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chancethegardnr wrote:

hello this is my first posting on here and i hope somebody can help. my
tomoatoes in the greenhouse are still not flowering although some are
about 15 inches high. i'm concerned i planted them out too late - last
weekend. i am however near glasgow so the greenhouse even now still
drops to 5-10 degrees at night. will they eventually flower? i'm hoping
they will i've planted out 30 of them!


You need a soil temp of 70F, and night time temps in the 50Fs for
tomatoes. Ten degrees Fahrenheit would flat out kill a tomato plant, so
you must either not know how to read a thermometer, or you are a troll.


OK, you're using Celcius, so you need a soil temp of 21C, and night time
temps from 10C to 13C for tomatoes.

Tomatoes always seem as if they take forever to grow. Hopefully you
planted tomatoes that ripen early, 60 days or more or less. Worse comes
to worse, you may need to add a heater at the end of the season, to get
your tomatoes.
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