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Old 24-08-2012, 04:46 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Roger Tonkin wrote:
I was given a couple of bush tomatoe plants (var Amateur) this year.
Never having grown these before, I'm wondering how one goes about
stopping them producing more and more flowers at this time of the year,
as the plants are quite heavily ladened with fruit and more flowers now
are unlikely to swell and ripen before the cold weather.

How big are the tomatoes? All my bush tomatoes have cherry (1" or less)
size tomatoes, and I'm very happily continuing to encourage them to
flower! Typically my tomatoes keep ripening into early or mid November.

Where are you based?

Earlier trusses are around 2" or a bit bigger, with around 8-10 fruits
per truss.

For location, see sig below.

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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales
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