Greenhouse tomatoes

Ian Pollard

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Jul 4, 2009, 8:03:02 AM7/4/09

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Hi
I live in the UK and have just planted six tomato plants in my
greenhouse.(Rather belated) All seemed fine until the flower on three
of the plants has turned into a single green sphere. Any ideas please
on what has happened and what I should do about this. I know it is not
a tomato, but what is it?

Ian

alan.holmes

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Jul 4, 2009, 10:52:34 AM7/4/09

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"Ian Pollard" <m0...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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How can you be so sure it is not a tomato, what do you expect a tomato to
look like?

It sounds to me just like an unripe tomato!

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> Ian

Ian Pollard

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Jul 4, 2009, 1:58:35 PM7/4/09

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Tomatoes usually come in bunches ,don't they. This is on its own and
has replaced a flower! I'm new to this so don't take anything for
granted.

Ian

Angela

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Jul 4, 2009, 3:02:36 PM7/4/09

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"Ian Pollard" <m0...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message

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You only get one tomato per flower, you don't get a bunch per flower. What
you are seeing is a baby tomato.

Ian Pollard

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Jul 4, 2009, 4:27:55 PM7/4/09

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On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:02:36 +0100, "Angela" <w...@nowhere.xcom> wrote:

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>"Ian Pollard" <m0...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>| On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:52:34 +0100, "alan.holmes"
>| <alan.h...@somewhere.net> wrote:
>|
>| >
>| >"Ian Pollard" <m0...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>| >news:d2hu4557g90tpokpt...@4ax.com...
>| >> Hi
>| >> I live in the UK and have just planted six tomato plants in my
>| >> greenhouse.(Rather belated) All seemed fine until the flower on three
>| >> of the plants has turned into a single green sphere. Any ideas please
>| >> on what has happened and what I should do about this. I know it is not
>| >> a tomato, but what is it?
>| >
>| >How can you be so sure it is not a tomato, what do you expect a tomato to
>| >look like?
>| >
>| >It sounds to me just like an unripe tomato!
>| >
>| Tomatoes usually come in bunches ,don't they. This is on its own and
>| has replaced a flower! I'm new to this so don't take anything for
>| granted.
>|
>| Ian
>
>You only get one tomato per flower, you don't get a bunch per flower. What
>you are seeing is a baby tomato.
>

OK. That is good enough for me. There seemed to be more than one
flower though.

Ian

Emrys Davies

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Jul 4, 2009, 6:09:38 PM7/4/09

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Some of the flowers fail to produce a tomato.

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Angela

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Jul 4, 2009, 6:03:46 PM7/4/09

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"Ian Pollard" <m0...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message

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There will be numerous flowers and each one grows into a tomato.

alan.holmes

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Jul 5, 2009, 7:36:00 AM7/5/09

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"Angela" <w...@nowhere.xcom> wrote in message
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But, in the greenhouse it would help with the number of tomatoes if you used
a small artists paint brush and brushed each flower every day, this helps
with the polination.

Alan