Getting tomatoes to fruit more is one of the greatest challenges in the garden. If only there was an easy way! Well there is, in this video, we will discuss 4 simple tips to helping you increase blooms and fruit set.
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Powdered Egg shells or Oyster shells in vinegar for calcium ?
I looked up on YouTube for a video about how to grow a vanilla orchid indoors at home.
The first show that popped up was from (maybe) 9-ish years ago.. The man telling us how to do it looked and sounded just like you, @MIgardener sir, do you still grow your own vanilla beans?
When you touch the back of an electric toothbrush to a tomato flower at the right stage of development you can actually see a tiny burst of pollen shoot out of the flower! I've been doing a very casual experiment with this to see if I get more fruit. Silly but fun.
Love your posts. Thanks.
I have this problem. Thanks for the recommendation!
Quality plants starts from MIGardener sure made a difference here! I purchased live plants including cherry tomato from the MIGardener store this May along with a big bag of Trifecta+
Happy to report, my garden is absolutely thriving. The plants purchased from you are so healthy and strong, they are visibly better quality than the others I grew from seed. The plants I treated with Trifecta+ have no pests, no disease, and so far, huge yields.
It’s only my second year growing, and I get so much confidence from this channel. My cherry tomatoes taste like heaven and my fiancé thinks I’m a garden wiz. I just love to learn and try the things you share. Thanks!
Your timing is always impeccable! I just spent three hours yesterday trying to figure out why my healthy looking indeterminate tomatoes stopped flowering. I'm hoping it's just the heat.
Thanks for the timely share. I'm dealing with all this right now. I have a bunch of 7ft plants that aren't setting fruit dropping blossoms. I started watering more consistently and it seems to be helping.
Last year was hotter, i had tons of Roma's. Indeterminate. This year, i have same number of plants, and less fruit. I fertilize with Alaska fish emulsion. Thanks for the tips.
The stars finally aligned for me this spring (Trifecta was in stock when I remembered to order it), and I planted my seedlings with Trifecta as directed.
I have witnessed exactly what Luke described: Rapid growth in the early part of the season, with a radiant vigor to my termater plants, followed by an explosion of flowers and fruit set.
I am blessed in that I am not dependent on the food I grow in order to eat.
But even so, I have seen some messed up things: Snails, slugs, and my nemesis: SPIDER MITES!
After nearly a decade of growing tomatoes every summer, I feel like I have taken a beating from a pest or problem ~30x.
If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, then Trifecta is worth its weight in gold!
I just did a quick online search for tomato set spray. One article states that the hormone encourages non pollinated blossoms to set fruit, resulting in nearly seedless tomatoes. Does this sound right to you? It also states that the seeds which do form will probably be infertile. Maybe this could be a bad idea for seed savers.
I use crushed oyster shells in my soil for calcium. You can buy bags in any Tractor supply store or feed store as they are an essential supplement for chickens. I use chicken droppings and oyster shells in my soil for tomatoes and they do very well.
Exactly the video I needed lol 😂
Is to much rain stress? May was super dry but it has rained five out of every seven days!
First time gardening here in the Adirondack Mountains (Northern NY). I've cleaned 4 cubic yards of dirt, removing rocks and weeds for our beds. Lots of work! Excited for next years growing season as I've had a great start with the soil quality mission. I mixed top soil and compost with the native soil and planted directly in the ground; next year i'll build raised beds. Our tomato plants have only just formed a few flowers. It's been a crazy rainy season here (best wishes to all of those who experienced flooding this season.) It walloped hail this morning, damaging some crops and slicing some Morning Glory vines in half 🙁
Regardless of our yield this season, it's always a pleasure to play in the dirt. Here's to patiently growing bigger!
Anyways,
Compost vs. Trifecta for tomatoes??
Please do more on pumpkins
We have really bad soil, like dead soil. It grows weeds and grass, that's it and the grass is not good…..
I grew some Livingston Grape tomatoes (Farm & Fleet sells brand) and will not again. It just produces a ton of blossoms and only a couple fruit. It has everything it needs the same as over 30 varieties that are doing great. I don’t understand it.
Please consider making more videos using hydroponics & your heirloom seeds!
All of your videos are such a blessing, I've been watching them for years!!!
The consensus from gardeners/growers in my area is that weeks of 100 degree heat is causing blossom drop for everyone.
Such a cool am informative video! I have 3 plants and 1 has no fruit. Ibwill water more throughout thebweek and looks for flowers to spray. Thanks!!
How about peas? My peas did not produce as much as I expected.
Thank you Jesus, I can now afford anything and also support Gods work and the church, $230K weekly profit, My life has totally change.
After all these years, I still learn something new from you every video. Trifecta rocks, by the way.
I know the focus is on fruiting for tomato plants. Does the same concept apply to fruiting for pumpkins?
my tomatoes so far have been small. we have high heat in utah where i live. I have some plants that are green but havent blossomed in this heat. I hope it will cool down soon.
For normal speed, turn to 0.75 playback speed. Slowwwww down your speaking my dude.
Have you ever heard of landrace gardening?
I ordered your seeds, had 100% germination, hardened off the plants, and put them in the raised bed with trifecta in the hole. I have three different kinds of varieties, all have flowers and all three cherry Chadwick plants have little cherry tomatoes!! The tallest are around 3.5 feet and the shortest beef steaks are around 2. I think the trifecta is doing its job! My peppers are all looking good as well. Thanks so much for all you do!
Good info!
What do you think about Bokashi (with biochar and effective micro organisms), Luke? For the past three years we have been putting it in our tomato bed two months before planting. The results have been tremendous (also with your Giant Crimson and Abe Lincoln). The egg shells, coffee grounds, onion peels, etc. combined with biochar provide the plant gradually with nutrients and moisture.
I've been considering buying that stuff. My Better Boy tomato plant is over 6 feet tall now and yet it has only produced 4 full-term tomatoes so far all summer. The flowers and fruit mostly are growing in the middle of the plant or higher. Only the first 2 tomatoes grew further down. Also I have a cubanelle pepper plant that did initially get flowers on it but they fell off and have not grown any new ones. It is now about 5 feet tall and it just has one fork, so not bushy at all. It is watered regularly along with the other pepper varieties which are younger and overall more vigorous. Are Cubanelles hard to work with or could something else be wrong?
Also, I have a question; will cutting the top off a tomato plant get it to produce more flowers and fruit on lower branches?
I'm confused about the set spray. If the plant produces the hormone/scent once pollenated, wouldn't the spray keep the bees away?
What kind of tomato plant did you mention that has good genetics?
Said too fast and I can't make out the name.
Very helpful! Thanks!