Finally!!!
No, I don’t mean September or cooler weather getting here. Late August’s weather turned out to be great, if a bit too dry...
No, my biggest Mortgage Lifter tomato plant has “finally” set 3 fruits, and judging by the prolific flowering, there will be more soon. I have rigged up some more support.
It appears the plant wanted both the Bloom Booster and Super Phosphate AND cooler weather. Curiously, the weaker Mortgage Lifter plants set a few fruits a few days sooner. Even the one the hornworms damaged has a couple small fruits started, but, IDK if the plant can generate big fruits when it is still recovering & half what it should be.
ALSO, the plants from seeds of what I’m pretty sure were Golden Jubilee tomatoes last year are now growing fruits, and these fruits are still very green and bigger than any mature fruits the “Golden Jubilee” plants I got in starter pots from Menards /Bonnies this spring. The latter plants are still producing fruits that look the same as my Cherry Falls tomato plants are producing.
(The “earliest” of the Bonnies Cherry Falls plants from 4” pots has gone into “stasis” it seems: It’s staying alive, but not growing or producing even with a couple feedings applied in the last 2 weeks. The others, though, are still flowering and fruiting.)
Golden Jubilee tomatoes are heirloom and open-pollinated, so I’d hoped for good results, and, apparently I may get them. :-)
I may get the good results from the plants grown from seeds, that is!