Yup, tomatoes are pollinated by the wind, they don’t need bees. All my other plants have tomatoes in various stages of growth. This plant has none. Wish I’d bought a spareI don't know where you are, but around here, (Ozarks) everything has been running a month or more behind. I put my tomato's in the planter's and buckets in May and usually by June, I'm over run with them. Not so this year. It wasn't until mid July that I started getting them.
Don't forget the old trick to flick the blossoms with your finger. (helps the pollination process). Trust me.
I have done all that and trimmed a lot of the extra non producing vines off as well. I want to pull it up as it frustrates me, but husband wants to leave it so I do. We both like these tomatoes and next year I will make sure I get two. I had, however, not thought about removing some of the blossoms-I will do that as well.The largest size tomatoes, that you are talking about, would be expected to take longer than any of the smaller tomato varieties. (You probably already know that.)
I might take some of the blooms off though, so the plant can focus its energies on fewer, and good ones.
especially if there are multiple flowers on a branch that will not support as many per branch, anyway.
Or if there are too many additional small branches, that drain energy and don't turn it into a reasonable number of great tomatoes.
Then , water well, and wait, and let us know!
When I lived in CA, I could see down into my neighbor's yard from my upstairs. He had planted an enormous crop of tomatoes but from a distance I thought it was marijuana. Make sure your plant is legal. Cars would come to his house all hours of the night and I was convinced he was a dealer until one day I was over there and got a better look. I hope you find success with your tomato plant
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Haha. When my husband and I moved into the neighborhood, I put my tomato sprouts out on the roof. Our neighbors were an older couple and the woman complained to my husband about me growing marijuana. My husband didn't know tomato plants from marijuana but he told her they weren't marijuana but tomato plants. He came home and told me to take the grass off the roof it was bothering the neighbors. Sheesh.When I lived in CA, I could see down into my neighbor's yard from my upstairs. He had planted an enormous crop of tomatoes but from a distance I thought it was marijuana. Make sure your plant is legal. Cars would come to his house all hours of the night and I was convinced he was a dealer until one day I was over there and got a better look. I hope you find success with your tomato plant
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Next time give it some calcium in the form of eggshells or lime. Mine weren't putting out many fruits either but the eggshells helped them set a few more than before.yesterday I pulled it out![]()