Tomato blossoms. A little out of focus, but the pic is less than 5 minutes old. ;)
/johnny
Well, the "T" squash is a good six feet tall and growing out in the air now since it is taller than the plastic support. It has started dropping due to gravity and the longer it gets the more it's going to head straight down, so it will be hanging from the top of the support down to the ground if it doesn't stop growing before then. No sign of a blossom.
The baby T squash is a foot high now. It's in a pot and the vine will just have to grow on the deck instead of in the air since I don't have another one of those barrels with the stand in it.
Nine walking onions are up. The Sesame flowers, there are two in the big pot, now each have six pods growing and more are forming.
Bush beans are flowering, lettuce, cucumbers, broccoli, are growing in a long container, grow bag with baby carrots is growing. All these plants are too young yet for blossoms.
All the strawberries are alive and growing in those kind of flat pots I got for a bargain price.
I HAVE EIGHT TOMATO PLANTS AND NOT A SINGLE BLOSSOM - I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF!
I met an architect from a town just north of me and tomorrow, I'm going to see the house he built of his own design. This man has more talent than I have seen in one person. Name it and he does it.
He appears to have double green thumbs. A son of his in Galveston has a fig tree. Architect guy got a cutting of that fig tree. So, he did the root grow stuff and planted that "stick". However, a leaf fell off and he treated the leaf and planted it - that tree from that leaf is five feet tall! He spoke to an Ag guy and that man said he had never heard of that happening.
Architect guy also got seeds from A&M of the Jalapeno seed they developed which has barely any heat, and he has those growing.
This morning he sent me this link that someone sent him - it's titled "The Beauty of Pollination". Well, I couldn't get that link to paste. I'll try it on a separate post.
Tomato blossoms. A little out of focus, but the pic is less than 5 minutes old. ;)
/johnny
Ok Marcella, before you do the dastardly unforgivable sin, try this on just one of your tomato plants. Add some bonemeal.
Flowering veggies need phosphorus to produce flowers. Bonemeal is an organic source. It is puzzling to me, because I know you bought good soil for the pots, so I would not have expected to do anything except add some compost when the fowers appear.
Still it is worth a try. When did you plant those tomatoes, and what type are they (mortgage lifter etc.)?
Are the 'maters getting too much nitrogen and not enough potassium/potash? Try a fertilizer feed 20-20-20 or similar. I had that problem last year and enriched the soil with coffee grinds, egg shells (calcium) and a deeper cultivation. You live in Texas too so maybe the heat has stunted the blooms too. Next year I'm going with cherry and Roma 'maters for an early yield until the Fall season round 2 for more. /johnny's compost tea/seaweed liquid/molasses mixture does wonders in the spring but the dang Texas heat stunts the growth of blooms bigtime in summer. So split into 2 seasons for them 'maters 'round these parts in Lone Star land.
My lemon boy tomato grew out of it's cage, so I took a bungee cord, and just hooked it around one of the branches of it, then hooked the other end to a T shaped post that's about six feet tall...It's grown past that, and is just about 8 or 9 feet tall, and still growing..
It doesn't have any tomatoes on it...Well, I haven't gotten on a ladder to check the part that's reaching for the sky.
If the T squash produces bunches of squash, there are two recipes for it and both are good in that its still a veggie and not a tart pickle.
One is called, “Sweet Pickled Pumpkin or Squash”. Cloves, allspice, black peppercorns, cinnamon stick, fresh ginger. My, that sounds good.
Another is “Crisp Pickled Pumpkin or Squash”. This is a mildly sweet pickling.
Really, all veggies are in here, plus some meats.
I also got “The Joy of James, Jellies and Other Sweet Preserves” big book. Again, only water bath recipes. With these two books, I could can anything.
EXCEPT, I have the water bath canner and utensils to use with it so I don't burn my hands/arms off, BUT I HAVE NOTHING ELSE: No vinegar, no pickling salt, no whatever else I'm supposed to have, also no jars, no lids. I'M JUST DOING GREAT - NOT.
Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination: Lecture with video
enjoy...