More tomato troubles

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  1. Georgia Girl Beth

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    I am again having some trouble with my tomato plant. It is growing tall and there are some new vines, but it has not produced a tomato in some time. It almost looks as if 2 of the main vines are dying, but there are smaller vines growing off of it that look healthy. Please help....again.

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  3. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I don't grow many tomatoes but there are two different kinds of tomato plants ...determinate and indeterminate. Determinate plants will grow until they start setting buds, put out a crop that all ripen at pretty much the same time, then die. The indeterminate will continue growing and producing a crop until the first frost kills them in late Fall.
    Your plant may be a determinate variety....in which case it is doing what it is meant to do.
     
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    Toni is correct. Do you remember what variety you planted ? Plant actually looks pretty good for this time of year.
     
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    I apologize for the delay in my response. The tomato plant was purchased from Publix and was already a pretty good size when purchased. It is called a "Better Bush" 3 gallon tomato from Sunshine Growers if that helps. It doesn't look too bad, but I am thinking that it may be getting too much water. It has been an unusually and exceptionally rainy summer. It sort of looks as if something is eating the leaves as well. Is there any way I can attempt to keep it alive during the winter months? If not, do they die and then come back next spring, or will I have to plant a whole new crop?
     



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  6. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    That is a determinate variety and it's not going to put out anymore produce, probably won't last the winter no matter what you do. Tomatoes are annuals so you will have to plant new ones next Spring.
     
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    Thank You!! I appreciate all the help you all have given me. Hopefully next summer I will have less trouble with them. Also, maybe I will have more space so that I can grow them in the ground rather than a container.
     
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    When the first flush of tomatoes is done they will send out a new flush of stems and foliage and set new flowers for fruit. I am on my second batch of pink cupcake tomatoes and the plants are way nicer the second time around. If yours are in the ground they will do much better than in pots, too. I have in the pots and in the ground and the pots just really struggle even though I water everyday and sometimes twice a day.
     
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    You can also take a cutting from the vine and root it in water. That will start a new plant that will produce the same as the parent plant. Might be too late now but it costs nothing to try. If you have a place to bring it in it may give you tomatoes through part of the winter.
     
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    Wow Toni. I never knew that before. We will have to make sure and ask the Greenhouse we get our plants from. My gosh, you learn something new everyday.:D
     

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