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? asked in Home & GardenGarden & Landscape · 1 decade ago

Tomato Plant not Producing?

I have a beef eater tomato plant that is full and healthy. It is 3 feet tall and continues to grow. However it is not producing any fruit or flowers. Any help?

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  • Bob
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    lol...Do you mean 'beefsteak' tomato plant? :-) They kind of take their time to get going. It's not unusual for a beefsteak tomato to take 90 days (or more) to get fully ripe. However, there could also be a problem with over-fertilization -- especially with nitrogen. If you're fertilizing your tomatoes regularly, use something like: 5-10-5 , 5-10-10, or 15-30-15. Also, feed the plants every other week, not every week.

  • M M T
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You either applied or are applying too much nitrogen fertilizer, the plant's not getting enough sun, it was planted late or it's lacking in some key minerals.

    Back off the fertilizer, make sure it's getting a good 6 hours of strong sun a day. Water once every two weeks with 1 gallon of water and 1 tablespoon Epsom Salts. The magnesium in the Epsom Salts encourages bud, flower development and helps with the fruit setting process. Water weekly with the solution.

    You should see if difference in a couple week. And some varieties of tomatoes ripen later in the season than others, so they don't set fruit early.

  • Ranger
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Beef Steak Tomato's are fall tomato's, they won't produce until Sept. They spend the first part of the summer growing the vegetation needed to collect the sunlight and nutrients that are stored in the very large Tomato's in the fall.

  • 1 decade ago

    This happened to my tomato plants one year. I discovered what happened after it was too late. I put them outside too soon in May and they got cold. Tomato plants will loose their ability to set fruit if the temperature drops below 50 and stays there for a while. I ended up with lots of leaves, but no fruit.

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  • 1 decade ago

    "Pollination & light, as well as heat. I have no idea where you live or whether your plants are getting enough light and heat, but you'd better make sure that they do. I had tried to plant my tomatoes in a organic way, but it turned out I still needed some help of the technology. So I had this LED grow light to work on them and things got much easier: http://www.yescomusa.com/product.php?productid=395...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    in case you do not have a plant with flowers you have got a hybred varity and those won't in many situations bloom and bud with the aid of fact they are actually not polinated attempt yet another plant from a seed packet and then while it buds you be the trojan horse bee wind and pollinate the plant with a q tip by potential of touching one blossom then yet another then yet another this could artwork

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    has to have a minimum of 5-6 hours of sun. you may have to much nitrogen in the soil.

    give it a good feed of garden fertiliser that has got a lot of potash added , the potash helps the flowers and fruit to develop

  • 1 decade ago

    its can be over watering, lack of magnesium. or too leafy

    http://gardening-tips-idea.com/Pruning-Tomato-Plan...

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