Why have my tomatoes not produced anything?

teapackets

Hello, this year for the first time I was given a greenhouse and was really excited at the thought of even more prolific tomato crops :j

I bought ready grown plants and have watered them regularly.

However, so far out of the 5 different type of plants only the plum tomato has produced about half a dozen that are just starting to ripen and the others have had (and still got) loads of flowers but absolutely no tomatoes!

Could anyone tell me why?

Thanks

withabix

No pollination.

Badrick

Have you been taking the side shoots off?( assuming they're cordons).
Also as withabix says, you need to help the flowers pollinate by giving them a tickle with an artists brush or tapping the flower stems as they flower in greater numbers. If the petals dropped off, leaving the green bit behind, then the humidity wasn't high enough, if the entire flower dropped off, no pollination..
Having said all that, it's been one of the poorest seasons for tomatoes and I don't think many folk had record breaking crops.

tiredwithtwins

I had 9 plants that I grew from seed, nice big strong plants ... but got one teeny tiny tomato.
did the pollination thing with the paintbrush, but just the one grew.

its about the size of a pea

and speaking of peas, my 10 pea plants got eaten alive by something that ate their way through the entire plants, so we got about half a saucepan worth of peas.

next year *fingers crossed*

billieboy_2

I also grew from seed this year. They were very late producing flowers and tomatoes and eventually got tomato blight :mad:. A very bad year for me in the vegetable patch!

System

Probably the worst year for me for growing tomatoes. I had masses of folliage but only about 2-3 trusses on each plant. Admittedly the tomatoes themselves are a decent size and shape but not really worth the effort this year.

Now the cucumbers are a different matter. They were late flowering but ive got about 4 decent sized cucumbers on each plant which is much better than last year.

The peppers, well they have only just started to flower. I'm not holding much hope for them at all.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I have some lovely looking toms - about golf ball sized, lots of trusses.

But they are all bright green, with no sign of ripening, even though I've taken off every top, side and back shoot I could find and they are in full sun *as much as my garden gets.

(and I have grape sized green peppers, no chillies at all)

And now I'm expecting to find the frost has got them.

tanith

Mine are tall but with only good size toms on the bottom 2 trusses they are late and only 2/3 are showing signs of ripening... its funny but one got knocked off in the wind and its been on the kitchen window sill for a month now still with no sign of ripening , very odd..

Dippypud

Looks like chutney all round then

BargainGalore

My toms are grown outside and not a sign of going red although got quite a few green toms. Courgettes have been a waste of time this year too. What have grown have gone rotten. Runner beans haven't done to bad although late this year. Talking to a guy other day and he said local allotment down road several people are given them up due to age and poor season, they rarely come up

[Deleted User]

I have had over 60lb of very good tomatoes from a combination of polythene covered patio gro and outside plants. A few small strillo and large ferline and alicanti and very large ones all home grown from seed

I stopped all plants when they had 4 trusses. I took off all side shoots. I grew them in gropots on top of compost. The bottom leaves came off up to the first flower truss. The canes were lightly tapped each day on the indoor ones, that is enough for pollination. I started feeding with organic tomato feed as soon as I had the first fruit. I shaded the patiogro ones with shade netting when it was blazing. I started cutting the fruits when they turned orange and brought them indoors and they ripened in a few days. Tomatoes ripen inside to outside and take about 4 weeks from when they start and about 4 months to grow from fertilisation

A controversial move but I started taking more leaves off when the 4 trusses had set and then when all fruits were large then there were only 3 leaves on each plant. It certainly worked and it worked last year too.