I purchased these Little Bing Cherry Tomatoes from the hardware store, and transplanted them into a grow bag this week. I read somewhere that you should pinch off the early flowers so it can focus on establishing roots in a new environment, so I did that.
However, now I’m reading things that say it’s a determinate variety, so those flowers may have been its only chance at producing tomatoes.
Picture is from before I pinched off all the flowers. Did I just ruin my chances of having a cherry tomato harvest from this plant? 😭
by jmc_921
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I think you’re going to be fine and it will produce more flowers. No worries.
That plant has a LONG ways to go, don’t worry.
Determinate just means the plant will grow to a “determined” height and the tomatoes will ripen at one time vs. at different times. Your tomato plant will be fine!
You’re fine, but I would be concerned about the grow bag size and how deeply that plant is buried.
Pinch off some of the lower leaves and bury it deeper would be my opinion, but it’s a hard angle to see.
Way too early to worry … and spend another $3 and buy another one, or two!
It looks like Little Bing is a micro-dwarf tomato plant. It’ll get bigger and put out more flowers for sure, but don’t prune anything else that isn’t damaged.