2 problems - tomatoes and courgettes.

loucroft

With the tomatoes, don't they say max. of 8 trusses ?

Hooversquirrel

With your toms, you could try hanging a ripe bannana on the plant as they emit 'something' that speeds up the ripening process.

chelms38

My uncle told me to wrap any fully formed green toms once picked in a cardigan or put them in a fruit bowl with bananas that are on the turn as they omit loads of gases which should ripen them up.Not tried it yet as my green tom are a way off from being fully grown.Don't know if anyone does either of these methods?

vanilla8

Last year i wrapped all my green tomatoes in newspaper and put in a cardboard box in a dark place. They all turned red, just make sure you check back and not forget about them!

Yorkie1

liam8282 wrote: »

My problem is, I seem to have had a sudden spurt of male flowers, loads of them, but no female flowers? If I removed a few of the male flowers would this encourage more female flowers to grow, or should I just leave alone?

Just leave well alone, the plant will either sort itself out or not - you can't influence this one I'm afraid

moodydonkey

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Just leave well alone, the plant will either sort itself out or not - you can't influence this one I'm afraid

So true, I had nothing a week ago after weeks of lovely male flowers and had given up hope but now have 5 or 6 on each plant and flowers galore.

macma

I'm with Yorkie we've grown toms for years well decades
But one thing did you side shoot your plants or are they the tumbling types ?
If your growing regular toms they need sideshooting or they just go "nuts"and you get loads of little fruit that probably won't ripen.
sideshooting -is removing the little (that quickly become big )shoots that grow between the main "trunk"and the branches.I often described this as think of the tom as a person main stem with arms the sideshoots would be growing where your shoulder meets your neck.Well it's a good description when you can see me waving my arms about :rotfl:
sorry but it can't be bad weather as we've had plenty both in the greenhouse and outdoors sorry again;)
if it makes you feel better some of our courgettes are rubbish-but not all of them;)

loucroft

Bloomin broadband, wrote this already!

My poor courgettes have been ravaged, after getting a few lovely ones off it already they've been munched!

Four nice red toms though which was a nice surprise !