Okay, so I planted cherry tomato seeds about six weeks ago. They are currently in a pot which is 8" in diameter and 8" deep. There are five healthy looking stalks have grown with the tallest about a foot high and the rest just a bit shorter. The thing is, I don't know if this is five stalks from one seed or five different seeds which happened to end up on top of each other and each came up. I do know that they seem to have stopped growing and while they look healthy, I'd love to seem them grow more and produce some tomatoes.
So, I was considering the idea of cutting down four of the stalks and leaving only the tallest one still growing, on the theory that this might allow that tall one to grow more and hopefully finally produce some tomatoes. Is this a good idea? I already moved them once about a week ago into their current pot. The old one was about the same diameter but only around 4-5 inches deep (it's one of those hanging pots that vines often grow from, which is why I thought the tomatoes might do well in it, but they were sitting there for several weeks without getting bigger so I decided to try moving them to a bigger pot).
Or am I simply being too impatient? I do know BTW that when I moved the tomatoes out of the pot they were in that the roots did seem to circle the base of the pot, so they did grow some decent roots...
Any advice appreciated. And yes, I can transplant them into an even bigger pot, but I'd rather not do so because I don't want to stress them too much with so many transplantations and second, I have a really tiny balcony with an awful lot of plants (I went a bit crazy and have close to thirty different plants growing on a 3'X8' balcony) and space is at a premium now.
I am moving soon though and will have more space in my new place (though there, everything is going in front of a picture window and will also have grow lights because there is no balcony in the new place. Though I do have a massive 12'x6' picture window to put everything in front of and a shelf already built just below it which will be the perfect home for the plants).
Eric