This happened to me when I used too much nitrogen fertilizer. The plants looked amazing, but they were making leaves instead of fruit. Switching to a tomato fertilizer helped.
My tomato plants look healthy but aren’t producing many tomatoes. What could be causing this?
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The plants are tall and green, but I'm barely getting any tomatoes. Has anyone dealt with this before? I'm trying to figure out if it's watering, fertilizer, heat, pollination, or something else.
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Replies suggested that healthy-looking tomato plants with little fruit can be caused by too much nitrogen, heat stress, poor pollination, or inconsistent watering. Several users recommended checking fertilizer type and gently shaking flowers to help pollination.
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Heat can do this too. When my tomatoes had too many very hot days, the flowers dropped before setting fruit. They started producing again once the weather cooled a bit.
If you do not see bees around, try gently tapping or shaking the flowers in the morning. Tomatoes self-pollinate, but sometimes they need a little help.
Check your watering pattern. Mine produced better when I watered deeply and consistently instead of giving them a little water every day.
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