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| I noticed that a couple of my tomato plants have early flowers. The plants involved are cherry tomatoes, about 15 inches high, and otherwise look reasonable for so early in the season. They were planted out around May 15. I grew these from seed and they were in 4" pots from the beginning. Three questions: 1) Will these signs of stress and early flowering signal a stoppage in vine growth? 2) Should I replace them with other 2" high seedlings I seeded just a month ago. 3) If I should keep them should I do anything special going forward? Thanks Scott |
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| Since they were planted more than 2 weeks ago then it sounds as if they are on track and behaving normally. So no I don't see any reason why they would need to be replaced. If you feel it is stressing the plant for some reason then you can always pinch off the blooms but usually, once transplanted, there is no need to remove any blooms that develop. If the plant can't support them then they don't set fruit and the plant drops them. Which is common with the first flush of blooms. Dave |
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- Posted by missingtheobvious Blue Ridge 7a (My Page) on Sun, Jun 1, 14 at 21:42
| If these cherries are indeterminates, their normal growth pattern is for 3 leaves (compound leaves), followed by a truss of blossoms. That pattern repeats until frost. And of course a new branch is likely to appear in the angle between each leaf and stem. Determinate and semi-determinate varieties follow other growth patterns. |
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