I am a very novice yet eager gardener. I have a small garden in the Boston area. This year I planted about five tomato plants in five gallon buckets. They did great right from the start, grew tall, started to flower and produce. Then they seemed to stall so I found some open spots in the ground and transplanted them all. About three weeks later all the plants are still doing well but they have stopped flowering. The flowers that were on at the time have browned out and died and no new flowers have appeared. Why would this be? None of the tomato's that were on the plants have died and the leaves are still looking healthy.

Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? Thanks so much for any help.

Joe

They need time to develop new roots, adjust to the new location, and trigger new growth. Until they are fully adjusted to the transplanting they won't make new blooms. They concentrate on just surviving and making new vegetative leaf growth for 4-6 weeks instead.

As long as they continue to look healthy they will very likely develop more blooms in time. You just have to be patient.

Tomato plants grow in cycles of approx. 6 weeks in length depending on the type (determinate or indeterminate). And that is without the added stress of transplanting them. So it will take time to get your plants back into a blooming/fruit set cycle.

Dave