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  • #1

    when will my toms fruit

    Hi All

    First time growing (cherry) tomatoes, and I now have flowers on some of the trusses. Was just wondering how long it will take for the fruit to emerge and ripen, all things being equal (impatient, moi?) ?

    Based on the pic, do you think I should be putting into growbags about now or wait a little longer?

    The other question I have is about hardening off - I hardened these plants off over the course of about 2 weeks at the end of April, but have had some very windy weather these past few weeks, so the plants have been back indoors most days to stop them getting blown over. Should I re-start the hardening off process?

    Thanks for any advice / comments / help
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    Hi Ifnfan
    Cute flowers
    Mine are at the same stage so any replies will be really helpful to me also.
    Thanks in advance

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    • #3
      the one on the far left has been pollinated and is already turning into a beautiful little tom. I've had all of mine outside for about a month now, but it's been a lot colder the last few days than it has been in weeks.
      Probably no danger of frost though, so i'd say, go for it, get em back outside, and i would also get them into bigger pots/growbags about now as well.

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      • #4
        I had a suspicion that was a little tom developing, but not totally sure.

        Do the flowers have to be pollinated before the tom will develop? If so, I guess that process could be a bit hit-and-miss, so hard to define a 'solid' timescale from flower-to-final-fruit...?

        thanks

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        • #5
          a month, a couple of months it all depends on sunshine, feed, growth etc.
          The flowers don't have to be pollinated, but they should ripen from the bottom up if that makes sense.
          I've never grown tomatoes outside so i can't help there sorry...

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          • #6
            Ifnfan, you have a lovely plant there with the first fruits showing.
            Plant on into a bigger pot and put a cane along side,tie plant to cane which will stop the wind from damaging it.
            Good luck.

            And when your back stops aching,
            And your hands begin to harden.
            You will find yourself a partner,
            In the glory of the garden.

            Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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            • #7
              thanks for the responses - this is a great forum

              This weekend i will plant into a 1/2 growbag and install on our balcony. The plant is about 4.5 feet tall now and has been living in a 5 inch pot for about 3 weeks. Not sure if that's best practice or not, but this one grows too fast for me to keep up!!

              I think the risk of frost is now very minimal, but I'm a bit worried about how the plant will cope with the wind on the balcony where it'll be living (alas no garden at this moment in time). It's not so much the being blown over (which I think is unlikely), it's more the effects of being wind whipped.... Perhaps I'm being over-protective ?

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              • #8
                Probably not being over protective, wind will damage them too [ as i found out when I didn't have a greenhouse last year - until i got a secondhand one and ushered my babies into it, but the weather last year was pants]
                Can you put something round the balcony? Like bubble wrap or something similar?

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                • #9
                  rats - i was hoping you wouldn't say that!

                  I could rig some sort of wind-break, will have to give it some thought...

                  Hmmm

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