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Default one tomato plant not producing

"MaryL" > wrote in message
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> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>> On 8/2/2014 10:01 PM, Gus wrote:
>>> I have 8 plants and 7 all have had a decent number of tomatoes, but
>>> one
>>> plant has not had any. It is the plant that has grown the best and
>>> biggest and looks the healthiest. It's actually huge-- over 6 feet
>>> tall, and filled out well. Has had lots of flowers, but not one
>>> tomato.
>>> It's in the same spot as I had one last year that produced many
>>> tomatoes. I'm confused why this one plant is not growing any
>>> tomatoes,
>>> and it is the biggest and healthiest of the lot.

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>> It is biggest and healthiest because all of its enerfy is making
>> leaves, not fruit.

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> What do you suggest? What Mary said? Cutting back some of it? It
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> plenty of flowers and has for last couple months.
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> My first thought was actually what Ed suggested, but I rejected that
> idea when I noticed that the plant has flowers. If it was all
> foliage, I would suspect too much nitrogen.
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> MaryL


I'm going to try hand pollinating some. Not had to do before. I have
some Qtips that I'll try using. I'm so ignorant I didn't even know
their are male and female flowers. In the past, I just planted some
plants and they all produced without doing much than watering once in a
while.

http://vegibee.com/index.php/hand-pollination