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| Author: | Balanda [ Apr 17th, '13, 18:32 ] |
| Post subject: | No tomato fruit |
Hi everyone I am new to Aquoponics and have a system up and running great growth in tomato plants heaps of flowers but no tomatoes has anyone got any ideas please |
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| Author: | mantis [ Apr 17th, '13, 19:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: No tomato fruit |
Its the most common problem with tomatoes and the answer is high heat. Tomatoes will not set fruit in temps above 30C. All you can do is try to manually pollinate them with an electric toothbrush, early in the morning. Or grow cherry tomatoes that set fruit anywhere |
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| Author: | jayendra [ Apr 17th, '13, 20:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: No tomato fruit |
whats the temp for pollination and whats the temp for ripening? Also does potash have something to do with the process of setting flowers? |
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| Author: | bioaquafarm [ Apr 18th, '13, 00:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: No tomato fruit |
depending how old is your system, phosporous and calcium will be the most needed to be supplemented in the case you have a young system (less than a year) |
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| Author: | DrLuke [ Apr 18th, '13, 03:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: No tomato fruit |
If you want to skip the electric tooth brush, you can first try shaking the plant vigorously, or holding a flower cluster near the base of its stem, then flicking the flower head. |
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| Author: | Balanda [ Apr 18th, '13, 05:54 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: No tomato fruit |
Thanks for your feedback it is still around 32 degrees here so that could be the problem the system is only 8 weeks old might have to look for different varieties for this heat thanks again |
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| Author: | mantis [ Apr 18th, '13, 06:54 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: No tomato fruit |
Cherry and Roma types set fruit a lot easier than large fruited types. Maybe ask around up there as to what varieties are grown there |
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| Author: | Mr Aristaeus [ Apr 18th, '13, 07:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: No tomato fruit |
calcium would be my thought the shells from a dozen eggs for each plant will fix that that's dug in at the hole before planting hmm....that's a dirt rule, I'm assuming the same applies. could be wrong so apparently I have no clue, seems the norm |
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