this year I was busy moving into our new place when it was time to start my tomatoes, so I bought already started plants from the nursery, and I put them in the ground the other day, they are about 1 foot tall or less and have flowers already on them? arnt they way to short to grow tomatoes? are they stunted some how? or is this normal, I havnt experienced it before!
thanxs any help would be good
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Tomatos can start blooming once they grow a certain number of leaves. The amount of nutrients and light determine how tall the plant will be at that point, and if it will decide to flower, so flowering when a foot high is not unusual. The nursery probably saved some money by not fertilizing much after a certain date.
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My starters pushed out blossoms and the seven plants are all shorter than a foot. I plucked the lowest blooms in favor of growth. Some of those blossoms may have produced fruit which would have sat on the soil.
As a rule of thumb stated by some, remove the first foot of foliage after the plant is 2-3ft tall. That foliage may not get a lot of sun, become leathery and provide a way for fungus and the like to get onto the foliage from the soil.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
As a rule of thumb stated by some, remove the first foot of foliage after the plant is 2-3ft tall. That foliage may not get a lot of sun, become leathery and provide a way for fungus and the like to get onto the foliage from the soil.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
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