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> My tomato plants look terrific this year, but many flowers are falling off
> and not setting. Never had this problem before. Help!
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> My tomato plants look terrific this year, but many flowers are falling off
> and not setting. Never had this problem before. Help!

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Larry wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Lowes carrys a product called "Blossom setter", formulated just for this
> problem. I've used in the last two years on mine and it seems to work.

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> My tomato plants look terrific this year, but many flowers are falling off
> and not setting. Never had this problem before. Help!

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> Larry wrote:
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> Flowers not setting is a symptom of a problem. How do you know that
> "Blossom setter" is the right solution to the underlying problem? It may
> be a solution to *a* problem that has a symptom of flowers falling off,
> but the problem DD is having might not be that problem.
>
> More information is needed before a diagnosis can be done, and an accurate
> diagnosis is needed before one can declare a particular product to be the
> solution to the problem. It doesn't make sense to start spraying some
> random chemical on plants growing what will eventually be food.
>
> --
> Warren H.
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> Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is
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> response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants
> to go outside now.
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> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:51:08 -0400, D.D. Palmer wrote:
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> Good day D.D. As I read above, I'm asuming that your plants are otherwise
> healthy. There are two possibilities that I can think of, one being over
> fertilization. If you used a high nitrogen fertilizer this can retard
> flower and / or fruit set.
>
> The other possibility could be some sort of insect. Earwigs come to mind
> for me. I've seen them do great damage to apple trees. They tend to cut
> the blooms off.
>
> If you over fertilized, then you can leech it outof the soil with a few
> good waterings. For earwigs, look for any insect activity during the early
> morning and late evening.
> Then always the third possibility... I wrong on the first two 80(
>
> Good luck
>
> --
> Yard Works Gardening Co.
> http://ywgc.com/resources.html

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> I am growing both in the ground with mushroom manure as the only fertilizer
> and in EARTHBOXES. The setting problem (or, lack thereof) is seen in BOTH.
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> "Timothy" <ywgc@gmail.REMOVEcom> wrote in message
> news:1118716672.970852f0d60217c834d8b753644379af@teranews...
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>What else do you want to know? The plants look great otherwise. It's been
>hot and humid although there were long days where there was no rain and
>I was careful to only water around the roots. Perhaps the lack of physical
>stimulation (pollination?) was the problem? I don't know what else to tell
>you.

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>I am growing both in the ground with mushroom manure as the only fertilizer
>and in EARTHBOXES. The setting problem (or, lack thereof) is seen in BOTH.

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> D.D. Palmer said:
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> Exactly how hot and humid? Night-time low temperatures much above
> 70-75 deg. F or daytime highs in the 90s can cause blossom drop. High
> humidity can also interfere with pollination.
>
> There are specific varieties selected to tolerate high temperatures.
>
> http://www.kdcomm.net/~tomato/Tomato/heat.html
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>
> --
> Pat K. ('someplace.net' is comcast)
>
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> (attributed to Don Marti)
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> "D.D. Palmer" <ddpalmer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:HoSdnZfh0ciWOTPfRVn-oQ@comcast.com...
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> Where are you located?
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> My tomato plants look terrific this year, but many flowers are falling off
> and not setting. Never had this problem before. Help!
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> D.D. Palmer wrote:
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> I had a friend who fertilized frequently with Miracle Grow (I believe).
> He wound up with 8' high green tomato plants but no tomatoes because
> of all the nitrogen. Use a little fertilizer after planting and then
> stop unless there is some reason. Plants need to starve a little to
> make them set fruit.

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> My tomato plants look terrific this year, but many flowers are falling off
> and not setting. Never had this problem before. Help!
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> I'm in the eastern part of PA about a 6-hour drive from Pittsburgh where the
> OP is located. I have plenty of buds on my plants and many are falling off.
> I have two plants in containers and two directly in the ground. The
> container plants were at one point about 4 times the size of the ground
> ones. Now the container plants are getting yellow leaves around the bottom
> of the plants and the in-ground plants are all nice and green. The plants
> are the "Big Boy" variety. I water the container plants quite a bit because
> I'm assuming the soil will dry out more because the sun shines on the side
> of the containers increasing the soil temperature higher than those in the
> ground would experience. No signs of little maters on any of the four
> plants at this point.
>
> Anxious in PA
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> I have a 6 foot cherry tomato and same problem as yours. It's not
> setting fruits. I started having flowers since 2 months ago. Now I have
> about 100 flowers and the plant is very healthy. The problem is as of
> now there are only 4 tiny fruits. The flowers are not falling off. They
> are dry after a while.
>
> I guess my mistake was that I used too much Micracle-Grow when I
> transplanted it back in April. Is there anything I can do now to solve
> this problem ? I have just removed a lot of suckers and sideshoots.
> Hopefully all nutrients are now going to setting fruits, rather than
> producing ton of leaves. Will that help? I live in Seattle, WA and we
> haven't really got our summer yet. Maybe the lack of consistent
> sunshire is my problem here.
> tan-hai@msn.com
>