Should i be concerned? Some flowers are withering? Anything i can do to make sure they bear fruit?
Should i be concerned? Some flowers are withering? Anything i can do to make sure they bear fruit?
by 1goldenegg1
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internetpillows
Either they are withering because they’re about to set fruit or because they never got pollinated. Run the back of an electric toothbrush against the branch with healthy flowers on it and you’ll see some pollen shoot out of the flowers and they will self-pollinate. It mimics the action of bees and is a good way to be sure they’re pollinated if for some reason there aren’t many bees around this year.
CurrentResident23
I give my indoor tomatoes a few gentle pats to release the pollen. It works. Yours looks like it’s outside, so wind should be getting the job done well enough. Give it a week, I bet fruits start developing.
ASHO2020
You shouldn’t be concerned – withering is very normal. My guess is most will turn into tomatoes.
Difficult-Carrot-194
The flower petals wither off and the tomato will grow from right there. In a few days you can look inside and see the little green tomato growing. When flowers are unpollinated they’ll die off from the base of the green stem; looks like none dead here.
carlitospig
Even pollinated flowers wither. 🙂
If you want, you can flick the withered petals off now and watch as the fruit grows.
yello5drink
Are you conformable touching pistils and stamens?
ApprehensiveSign80
Those are all pollinated flowers and will bear fruit
ASecularBuddhist
My guess is that the soil is overly wet.
NPKzone8a
Do you vibrate them several times a day with your fingers. That helps a lot. with fertilization. Start in early morning. Shaking the branches does the same thing. Don’t depend entirely on the bees.
tzd1
Hand pollinate those blooms please.
cabezatuck
Tomato time.
motherfudgersob
Now is your time to do your best to have regular consistent watering. You’re about to gave a whole bunch of mater babies and you don’t want tgem to split. Deep soaking every other day (maybe more often if in pots and or very hot dry sun and maybe less if in the ground). Skip watering if yiu have had or will have rain. Once about average size (especially if already starting to blush with their funal color) pick them is a big rain is expected and you can’t limit their water.
Otherwise, everything is fine. Just do you’re breathing and don’t push. I posted what I considered a great tutorial from Heifer on growing organic tomatoes. It’s a fun watch and I learned something new (they trim all leaves below a bunch of fruit as those leaves no longer sully the fruit energy and are just vectors for disease. And their plants speak for themselves.
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Either they are withering because they’re about to set fruit or because they never got pollinated. Run the back of an electric toothbrush against the branch with healthy flowers on it and you’ll see some pollen shoot out of the flowers and they will self-pollinate. It mimics the action of bees and is a good way to be sure they’re pollinated if for some reason there aren’t many bees around this year.
I give my indoor tomatoes a few gentle pats to release the pollen. It works. Yours looks like it’s outside, so wind should be getting the job done well enough. Give it a week, I bet fruits start developing.
You shouldn’t be concerned – withering is very normal. My guess is most will turn into tomatoes.
The flower petals wither off and the tomato will grow from right there. In a few days you can look inside and see the little green tomato growing. When flowers are unpollinated they’ll die off from the base of the green stem; looks like none dead here.
Even pollinated flowers wither. 🙂
If you want, you can flick the withered petals off now and watch as the fruit grows.
Are you conformable touching pistils and stamens?
Those are all pollinated flowers and will bear fruit
My guess is that the soil is overly wet.
Do you vibrate them several times a day with your fingers. That helps a lot. with fertilization. Start in early morning. Shaking the branches does the same thing. Don’t depend entirely on the bees.
Hand pollinate those blooms please.
Tomato time.
Now is your time to do your best to have regular consistent watering. You’re about to gave a whole bunch of mater babies and you don’t want tgem to split. Deep soaking every other day (maybe more often if in pots and or very hot dry sun and maybe less if in the ground). Skip watering if yiu have had or will have rain. Once about average size (especially if already starting to blush with their funal color) pick them is a big rain is expected and you can’t limit their water.
Otherwise, everything is fine. Just do you’re breathing and don’t push. I posted what I considered a great tutorial from Heifer on growing organic tomatoes. It’s a fun watch and I learned something new (they trim all leaves below a bunch of fruit as those leaves no longer sully the fruit energy and are just vectors for disease. And their plants speak for themselves.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W3M65Iy2DXQ