Slow growing

[shadowrider]

Is any one else having issues with the higher temperatures? My tomatoes aren't ripening!
I read that the plants stop making Lycopene and Carotene when temps are high so that the fruit doesn't turn.

 

[Pearl]

Is any one else having issues with the higher temperatures? My tomatoes aren't ripening!
I read that the plants stop making Lycopene and Carotene when temps are high so that the fruit doesn't turn.

It's so hot in Texas this summer that I just gave up!! I have no garden right now. Will try again in the fall!!

 

[zoomzoom]

It's been screaming hot here as well.
That said, I wasn't really expecting my tomatoes to be red in July. I don't put plants in the ground until Memorial Day (May 30th) so they're not even 2 months in the ground yet.
As you can see in the pics, they're approaching full size (Roma's) but probably won't turn red for another couple weeks.

 

[Mountain trapper]

We've got 1 ripe tomato already. Our highest temperature so far this summer has been 83 degs. Everything in our garden in doing great. Some of the peppers and watermelon may not get ripe before our first frost, usually in September.

 

[Caribou]

Beautiful tomato plant but not a single fruit, red or green.

 

[backlash]

We have a ton of green tomatoes.
We are usually eating ripe tomatoes by this time of year but everything is running about a month late due to the weather.

 

[Wingnut]

Everything in my experimental garden has slowed down due to heat & drought, but we had some rain yesterday and I hope to see more this afternoon. Melon & hot pepper plants seem to be doing alright, got a few peppers slowly growing and the melon plant has many flowers, but no sign of fruit yet. Weed plants are holding steady, they stopped growing a week ago... one looked like it was dying, but it seems to have made a comeback after losing some leaves (which looked burnt to a crisp). The fruit trees are still holding steady, though the peach tree lost some leaves too... just too hot & dry, I guess. I'm gonna keep watering everything and hope for improvement in weeks ahead. We aren't seeing the same high temps that Pearl & others have seen lately, but we were in triple digits for awhile and now we're hovering up around 100 degrees, maybe the high 90s. I know I said this before, but I'll be glad when this summer is over... dunno why the heat has bothered me so much this year, I reckon I'm getting old, lol.

 

[Amish Heart]

Our cherry tomatoes are red and good for picking. Our slicing tomatoes are green. We've had up to 105 temps.

 

[Bacpacker]

Wow hate to hear so many are having tomato problems. I've been picking a 5 gallon bucket full every other day. Mostly Red Beefsteak, with some Black Krim and Cherokee Purples.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

Beautiful tomato plant but not a single fruit, red or green.

Same here.

 

[LadyLocust]

We have a ton of green tomatoes.
We are usually eating ripe tomatoes by this time of year but everything is running about a month late due to the weather.

Same here.
Lots of garden oddities this year. Earwigs like crazy due to wet spring.

 

[backlash]

I found the first horn worm I have ever seen on my tomato plants yesterday.

 

[Tommyice]

Yup having the same problem. Lots of beautiful big green tomatoes and hardly any of them are starting to blush. I’ve got one pale orange one. It’s on the windowsill ripening as we speak or as I type. We’ve been in the upper 90s for over a week, sometimes only dipping into the mid 70s overnight.

 

[Bacpacker]

Talked to my mom tonight. They still haven't gotten their first tomato. Dad usually has early tomatos. They live about an hour from me

 

[Plainflatlander]

Same, loads of tomatoes but not a one ripe