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Toms flowering

[Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0
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I bought some tomato plants of various varieties that are in small pots in the greenhouse. They need putting into larger pots so first of all is there a good way to do this?

Also one of the plants is flowering already, the plant is possibly 5 inches tall if that - surely its too early to flower, the plant will no way be big enough to take the weight of toms yet? Do I take this flower off?

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  • LoganLogan Posts: 2,532
    12in pots would be best plant them deeper so they root from the stem & take the

    flowers off & put a cane in make sure you don't damage the roots
  • ItalophileItalophile Posts: 1,731

    Good advice. Taking off the flowers now will let the plant concentrate its energy on overall development. More flowers will arrive when the plant is ready.

  • WelshonionWelshonion Posts: 3,114
    Poor things, they are flowering because they think they are going to die if they don't get bigger pots!!!!
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995

    Maybe.  My two tomatoes I've planted up from cuttings are currently flowering at about three inches high.  Is it possible growers are selling clones rather than seedlings?  Especially of hybrids?  Perhaps it's easier/cheaper to root cutting and pot them up?  I wouldn't imagine.. but perhaps if it's not reliable from seed?  You are most likely right Welshonion, but it has me wondering.  

    Utah, USA.
  • Roger BrookRoger Brook Posts: 51

    My instincts are to leave the flower on. Good joke by Welsh Onion but I would consider  the flower indicates health rather than the opposite.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Welsh Onion is right Roger - many plants will unexpectedly flower when they are highly stressed and close to death.  It really is a last-gasp attempt to reproduce themselves.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995

    You've done your research Bob. image

    Utah, USA.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    I had a Wisteria that I grew from seed Blue Onion.  Those can take decades to flower so I was delighted when it flowered after only about 7 or 8 years.  However, it was dead a few weeks later with Honey fungus!

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0

    Well you have saved me once again!!

    Repotted and I have removed the little fowers - they do look really healthy and smell really 'tomato' like. 

  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    BobTheGardener wrote (see)

    I had a Wisteria that I grew from seed Blue Onion.  Those can take decades to flower so I was delighted when it flowered after only about 7 or 8 years.  However, it was dead a few weeks later with Honey fungus!

    That's dreadful!  So difficult, especially after nurturing the plant from infancy.  

    Utah, USA.
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