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Rural/Farm Life

NYC_SKP

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2. No flowers is concerning... are these commercial seeds or saved from another season?

Reply to jwirr (Original post)

Sun Jul 27, 2014, 10:47 PM

Jul 2014

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You might want to ask our DU tomato expert, NRaleighLiberal http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=142756

Lack of bees won't cause lack of blossoms but will prevent fertilization, I guess.

I had a monster plant last year, 12 feet across, saved some seeds and the seedlings are about a foot tall, no blossoms yet but it's early.

Hopefully you'll get some fruit, eventually!

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I do not know what went wrong this summer but both my tomatoes and my s-i-l's have [View all] jwirr Jul 2014 OP

Howdy. Tomatoes should flower regularly unless the nutritional needs are at odds with NRaleighLiberal Jul 2014 #1

No flowers is concerning... are these commercial seeds or saved from another season? NYC_SKP Jul 2014 #2

"We have had really wet weather..." JayhawkSD Jul 2014 #3

We had a lot of rain in the spring. We then bought our tomatoes from the local greenhouse and jwirr Jul 2014 #4