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| There are about a dozen large-ish green tomatoes on my Big Beef tomato plant, but the plant hasn't grown since I planted it 6 weeks ago. I know with peppers people recommend pinching blossoms or fruit to give the plant a chance to set roots. Is it the same with this tomato plant? Should I pull off the fruit and let the plant grow larger? |
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| What kind of growth habit it is supposed to have ? INDET, DET, BUSH, DWARF ? It looks like you've got a patio type . |
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| No there is no reason to remove the fruit from that plant at this point. Leave then to ripen as they may be the only fruit you get from that plant. Either it was mis-labeled as a Big Beef (highly likely as it looks like a determinate and BB is not) or it had already stunted, multi-stemmed growth and had set fruit before it was planted. Either way it's too late to remove them now to get it back to a vegetative growth stage. I know with peppers people recommend pinching blossoms or fruit to give the plant a chance to set roots. Just for clarification, they are talking about doing this right at transplanting time not 6 weeks later, and with tiny little fruit not almost fully developed fruit. Dave |
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| I have started from seed and growing a variety this season called BUSH STEAK (hybrid by Burpee). It says on the package: "Big 8 -12 oz meaty fruits matures early on Is it possible that what you've got is something like that ? |
This post was edited by seysonn on Fri, May 23, 14 at 22:25
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