How about flowers?

Fish emulsion generally is unbalanced fertilizer with an analysis like 5-1-1, meaning by weight it has a 5:1 ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus and 5:1 nitrogen to potassium. This will produce all leaves and few flowers.

The tomato plant needs phosphorus to produce flowers. Flowers produce fruit. Nitrogen for leaves and shoots. Phosphorus for fruits and roots.

And the tomato plant needs the phosphorus early in its development as well as later on as a side dressing application.

If you have to be organic, then find an organic source of phosphorus to balance out what you're doing by your over-application of nitrogen rich fish emulsion.

Espoma® Bone Meal has an analysis of 4-12-0. That means if you were to apply equal dry weights of fish emulsion and Espoma® Bone Meal, you would achieve a fertilizer that supplied say 9-12-1, which while way short on potassium, would give you a much better ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus as far as tomato vines are concerned. Bone meal also provides a good amount of calcium.

Then you would have to look for a good source of potassium to get your fertilizer up to something like 9-12-12 say.

I should've said 9-13-1 after the bone meal addition.

Dynagro makes Pro-tekt, which is 0-0-3

Corrie

If I wanted to get a lot of foliar growth and delay flowering until 3-4 months out what would you recommend as a fertilizing regimine hoosier?

Was I overfeeding them, too much nitrogen, too much water, too little of something else? I tried to be organic and fertilized with nothing but lots and lots of fish emulsion (maybe too much fish emulsion?)

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The most common cause of lack of or few blossoms and little fruit set with lush foliage is often too much Nitrogen.

But b'c Fish emulsion is so low in N I doubt that it could be the sole cause.

How much fish were you using?

And what about the soil you were growing in, b/c it may also be high in N naturally or if you amended it yourself.

Carolyn