What's Goin on with my Tomato Plants?

Question

My tomato plants have been planted for 5 weeks now they have grown sooooo tall there out of there cages and almost to the top of the broom stick yet there is no flowers nor tomato's....There is little nubs growing on the underside of the leaves/branches so could that be my tomato's or am I just too impatient

Answer 1

many times this has happened,the blooms fall off before they can produce.beautiful full foliage  and no tomatoes. intermittent watering and too much fertilizer .........tom

Answer 2

It sounds like your soil has too much nitrogen. Nitrogen stimulates foliage growth at the expense of fruit. Personally, I would not add any "complete fertilizer" like 10-10-10. I would add some super phosphate (the middle number on a bag of complete fertilizer) to stimulate flowering.

Answer 3

Different tomato plants obviously produce different types of tomatoes.but i presume you grow indeterminate tomato's. i grow indeterminate tomato's  in a green house mine have been planted for a about 5 weeks too but they are very little still . just give them time and some water but not too much .you are not really describing a tomato plant so i dont know if they are tomatos.tomato plant's are all stem and leaves .they are a weak plant .they dont have branches so if yours have branches i wouldn't think its one

Answer 4

They aren't mature yet.  Tomatoes can take 75 days to maturity.    Those nubs might be the flower buds that if pollinated will become tomatoes.

Answer 5

Maybe they're not really tomato plants.  Where did you get them?  I had a tomato plant grow all by itself in my yard, produced nice tomatoes. I didn't do anything to it, didn't even plant it.  It just sprouted up one day.

Answer 6

If you don't have fruit or leaves then you might have last years seeds from a hybrid, hybrids are good for one year and then you get funny mutants the next.

Answer 7

to much nitrogen give them Epsom's salt at 2 tbs per gal.1 gal per plant every 2 weeks see if that helps

Answer 8

You might have soil that has too much fertilizer, but a great way to get around this is to pinch off the tops of the biggest branches, this gets the plant to stop trying to grow so much and start producing, I had a similar issue with mine, mind you don't take off too much, just enough to get the point across that its time to stop growing. hope this helps, and don't worry too much about the fertility issue, i give my plants nitrates weekly and even with that have about 20 small tomatoes growing on one plant.