Hi all. This is the very first time I've every tried having a garden of any kind and I started it off with four hanging buckets and I planted them on June 11th. The plants seem to be growing fine, have doubled in size however my mother was over and wondered outloud why they had no flowers. On closer inspection, I found little buds growing but I have not seen any flowers. One bud is completely open like it should look when the flower falls off??? but I did not notice a flower.
So I did a ton of research and I think I planted the wrong kinds of tomatos to begin with and that the buckets are too small. My Question is can they be salvaged?
The plants get approximately 4 1/2 hours of direct HOT sunlight from 8am to 1:00 pm and indirect until about 4pm. I had not been watering them daily but just started within the last week or two and started watering them twice daily. I think I'm going to start watering them only once a day now as I have read too much water is not good. I've also been feeding them Miracle Grow for Tomatos liquid once a week. I give the two larger ones three cups and the two smaller ones 2 cups.
To get these to possibly produce fruit, should I be watering more often? Is it ok to spray the leaves to rinse the dirt off that dripped on the plant when watering and to keep the bugs at bay? Should I feed them more Miracle Grow as in a half gallon each or something like that?
I'm going to try and post some pictures to help. Thanks!
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By [url=https://profile.imageshack.us/user/tmstclaire]tmstclaire[/url] at 2011-07-12
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By [url=https://profile.imageshack.us/user/tmstclaire]tmstclaire[/url] at 2011-07-12
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