Quality plants starts from MIGardener sure made a difference here! I purchased live plants including cherry tomato from the MIGardener store this May along with a big bag of Trifecta+ Happy to report, my garden is absolutely thriving. The plants purchased from you are so healthy and strong, they are visibly better quality than the others I grew from seed. The plants I treated with Trifecta+ have no pests, no disease, and so far, huge yields. It’s only my second year growing, and I get so much confidence from this channel. My cherry tomatoes taste like heaven and my fiancé thinks I’m a garden wiz. I just love to learn and try the things you share. Thanks!
That’s wonderful Katie! It’s a great feeling when your garden is successful. And you bought healthy plants from him too. I’m so happy your happy and the garden is thriving 😃
When you touch the back of an electric toothbrush to a tomato flower at the right stage of development you can actually see a tiny burst of pollen shoot out of the flower! I've been doing a very casual experiment with this to see if I get more fruit. Silly but fun.
@@ralfnuggs165 The bees tend to beat me to the flowers anyway, because I have an abundance of bees around here. I tried the electric toothbrush trick a couple years ago and found it was completely unnecessary.
Blossom drop has been my biggest issue with tomatoes the last three seasons growing. According to my notes, the flowers seem to start drying up and falling off the plant around the same time every year-July 1st. Then, once the temperature starts to cool a bit, I get more fruit set. Unfortunately, with a short season (5B upstate NY), the season is rapidly approaching the end for warm season crops. Last year, I had about 20 to 30 fruits that didn’t have enough time to get ripe. Thanks for this video! You’re the first gardener I have come across to address blossom drop. I think my issue is a combination of too much heat and environmental stress. I will also need to be more mindful of how I fertilize the tomatoes early in the season. Maybe I am over doing it. Ironically, my healthiest tomato is a volunteer growing in the ground in rocky clay soil. Go figure! 😂
My Cherry tomato plants are only blossoming at the top. The plants are growing beautifully. I’m growing indoors, keeping by an open window that gets substantial sunlight. But can’t figure out why the flowers are only on top.
The stars finally aligned for me this spring (Trifecta was in stock when I remembered to order it), and I planted my seedlings with Trifecta as directed. I have witnessed exactly what Luke described: Rapid growth in the early part of the season, with a radiant vigor to my termater plants, followed by an explosion of flowers and fruit set. I am blessed in that I am not dependent on the food I grow in order to eat. But even so, I have seen some messed up things: Snails, slugs, and my nemesis: SPIDER MITES! After nearly a decade of growing tomatoes every summer, I feel like I have taken a beating from a pest or problem ~30x. If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, then Trifecta is worth its weight in gold!
I read in the comments of another one of your videos a couple years ago to use Tums when you plant and when you see your first flowers to prevent blossom end rot and I have to say, it must work because I've had almost no issue with it since starting that method
I ordered your seeds, had 100% germination, hardened off the plants, and put them in the raised bed with trifecta in the hole. I have three different kinds of varieties, all have flowers and all three cherry Chadwick plants have little cherry tomatoes!! The tallest are around 3.5 feet and the shortest beef steaks are around 2. I think the trifecta is doing its job! My peppers are all looking good as well. Thanks so much for all you do!
First time gardening here in the Adirondack Mountains (Northern NY). I've cleaned 4 cubic yards of dirt, removing rocks and weeds for our beds. Lots of work! Excited for next years growing season as I've had a great start with the soil quality mission. I mixed top soil and compost with the native soil and planted directly in the ground; next year i'll build raised beds. Our tomato plants have only just formed a few flowers. It's been a crazy rainy season here (best wishes to all of those who experienced flooding this season.) It walloped hail this morning, damaging some crops and slicing some Morning Glory vines in half :( Regardless of our yield this season, it's always a pleasure to play in the dirt. Here's to patiently growing bigger! Anyways, Compost vs. Trifecta for tomatoes??
Your timing is always impeccable! I just spent three hours yesterday trying to figure out why my healthy looking indeterminate tomatoes stopped flowering. I'm hoping it's just the heat.
Just when I think you have shared all the things, you teach me something new🙌🏻 And explain something I’ve heard a thousand times in a way, to understand it differently 🙌🏻💖 Just ran out of my big bag of Trifecta, can’t wait to order more💖
You are a walking wealth of knowledge. I appreciate your approach to gardening and sharing your expertise with all of us, so freely. I will always support your company because of your integrity. Thank you for teaching us.
I have followed you for years and have always loved your channel, but I have to say this year's videos have truly been top notch, I have learned so much and been so inspired. Thanks for all your hard work and devotion to quality information!
@@maryholder7032 My garden is already partly shaded due to the intensity of high desert sun. I have shade cloth, but I haven't needed it. It's still too hot even with the shade.
Thnx. We have plants with no flowers out here in the north east. Its been a weird season with cool Weather and so much rain. Plants are healthy but not much fruit and none too ripe.
Hi Luke, question for you, my tomato plants are loaded with fruit. I was hoping they would continue to flower and produce into the fall, but there are no more flowers on the plants. I am happy for the fruit that we have but any ideas why they stopped flowering? We did have a rather intense heat wave (7 days of 100+) which may have been the cause. Any ideas for getting them to set new flowers would be helpful. Thanks, and happy gardening!!!
I did have terrific tomatoes..... Then i threw my back out and was down for a week and we got 3" of rain during that time..... 😅 Now they are all monsters. Hope for the best.
Thanks for the timely share. I'm dealing with all this right now. I have a bunch of 7ft plants that aren't setting fruit dropping blossoms. I started watering more consistently and it seems to be helping.
Last year was hotter, i had tons of Roma's. Indeterminate. This year, i have same number of plants, and less fruit. I fertilize with Alaska fish emulsion. Thanks for the tips.
This summer after my tomato plants put out the first set of fruit (about 20) it continued to grow and all the flowers started and then dried up. No idea why. This is the first year this has ever happened. I usually get tons of tomatoes per plant each summer. This year was very different. I'm in NYC, so I don't think I'll have much time to get another harvest.
@@maryholder7032 my husband ran out this morning and bought the stakes like he used in the the video and brackets to attach the the beds. My tomatoes have never been this big! At least 6 feet high in a raised bed. Absolutely beautiful.
What do you think about Bokashi (with biochar and effective micro organisms), Luke? For the past three years we have been putting it in our tomato bed two months before planting. The results have been tremendous (also with your Giant Crimson and Abe Lincoln). The egg shells, coffee grounds, onion peels, etc. combined with biochar provide the plant gradually with nutrients and moisture.
Bokashi contains bacillus bacteria which is pretty beneficial. Tomatoes also pair with endo-mycorhizal fungi and Streptomyces which helps fight disease
I use crushed oyster shells in my soil for calcium. You can buy bags in any Tractor supply store or feed store as they are an essential supplement for chickens. I use chicken droppings and oyster shells in my soil for tomatoes and they do very well.
Love your channel! And your seeds!!! I have an off topic question😊.due to hail in Central mn I have to transplant perrenials now as garden shed has to be replaced. What is best plan?
I had one Roma plant that developed blossom rot. I took the leftover whey from homemade yogurt and added to all my tomato plants. Problem solved. Romas look gorgeous now.
I've been considering buying that stuff. My Better Boy tomato plant is over 6 feet tall now and yet it has only produced 4 full-term tomatoes so far all summer. The flowers and fruit mostly are growing in the middle of the plant or higher. Only the first 2 tomatoes grew further down. Also I have a cubanelle pepper plant that did initially get flowers on it but they fell off and have not grown any new ones. It is now about 5 feet tall and it just has one fork, so not bushy at all. It is watered regularly along with the other pepper varieties which are younger and overall more vigorous. Are Cubanelles hard to work with or could something else be wrong?
As a new tomato gardener (this is year 3 for me), my understanding is that topping tomato plants helps focus the energy into ripening the fruit that is already existing rather than putting new blooms on and growing more foliage; which can be the most useful for those of us in a short growing season with a frost coming.
Please consider making more videos using hydroponics & your heirloom seeds! All of your videos are such a blessing, I've been watching them for years!!!
I just did a quick online search for tomato set spray. One article states that the hormone encourages non pollinated blossoms to set fruit, resulting in nearly seedless tomatoes. Does this sound right to you? It also states that the seeds which do form will probably be infertile. Maybe this could be a bad idea for seed savers.
I looked up on TH-cam for a video about how to grow a vanilla orchid indoors at home. The first show that popped up was from (maybe) 9-ish years ago.. The man telling us how to do it looked and sounded just like you, @MIgardener sir, do you still grow your own vanilla beans?
I have a better boy tomato plant the looks like it has stop growing leaves like its curling up, not sure if its to much to little water to little fertlizer, only think i can think of is we got 2.5 inches in a few days, i put matermajic on them like 1 month before
I had to get rid of my cucumber and watermelon plants due to disease in my raised bed. Can I plant something else in those spots or do I need to try and throw all the soil away?
Would it be possible for your seed store to get TPS potatoes. I would love to just have a nice selection of potatoes to grow and not have to worry about trying to find seed potatoes and maybe them rotting before i can plant. A reliable area for TPS would be nice, i dont trust ebay seeds
my tomatoes so far have been small. we have high heat in utah where i live. I have some plants that are green but havent blossomed in this heat. I hope it will cool down soon.
I grew some Livingston Grape tomatoes (Farm & Fleet sells brand) and will not again. It just produces a ton of blossoms and only a couple fruit. It has everything it needs the same as over 30 varieties that are doing great. I don’t understand it.
My plants are supsr weird. I have three tomato plants in barrels and one of them has 1 tomato the second has 3 and the last one has 9. The one with nine is also with marigolds and strawberries but I dont think that shouldve made such a big difference.
My plants are not producing much and here comes this video. Interesting..
Quality plants starts from MIGardener sure made a difference here! I purchased live plants including cherry tomato from the MIGardener store this May along with a big bag of Trifecta+
Happy to report, my garden is absolutely thriving. The plants purchased from you are so healthy and strong, they are visibly better quality than the others I grew from seed. The plants I treated with Trifecta+ have no pests, no disease, and so far, huge yields.
It’s only my second year growing, and I get so much confidence from this channel. My cherry tomatoes taste like heaven and my fiancé thinks I’m a garden wiz. I just love to learn and try the things you share. Thanks!
That’s wonderful Katie! It’s a great feeling when your garden is successful. And you bought healthy plants from him too. I’m so happy your happy and the garden is thriving 😃
My cherry tomatoes are doing great as well! I haven’t been able to try them yet as I was very late in starting and planting them.
When you touch the back of an electric toothbrush to a tomato flower at the right stage of development you can actually see a tiny burst of pollen shoot out of the flower! I've been doing a very casual experiment with this to see if I get more fruit. Silly but fun.
I’m so thankful for bumble bees. I have literally hundreds around my garden all day everyday so I don’t even bother
@@ralfnuggs165 Me too! I'm just tilting the scales. 😄
@@ralfnuggs165 The bees tend to beat me to the flowers anyway, because I have an abundance of bees around here. I tried the electric toothbrush trick a couple years ago and found it was completely unnecessary.
Blossom drop has been my biggest issue with tomatoes the last three seasons growing. According to my notes, the flowers seem to start drying up and falling off the plant around the same time every year-July 1st. Then, once the temperature starts to cool a bit, I get more fruit set. Unfortunately, with a short season (5B upstate NY), the season is rapidly approaching the end for warm season crops. Last year, I had about 20 to 30 fruits that didn’t have enough time to get ripe. Thanks for this video! You’re the first gardener I have come across to address blossom drop. I think my issue is a combination of too much heat and environmental stress. I will also need to be more mindful of how I fertilize the tomatoes early in the season. Maybe I am over doing it. Ironically, my healthiest tomato is a volunteer growing in the ground in rocky clay soil. Go figure! 😂
Does the fruit from the tomato plant grown in the rocky soil taste good?
It’s always the volunteer that is the healthiest….
My Cherry tomato plants are only blossoming at the top. The plants are growing beautifully. I’m growing indoors, keeping by an open window that gets substantial sunlight. But can’t figure out why the flowers are only on top.
The stars finally aligned for me this spring (Trifecta was in stock when I remembered to order it), and I planted my seedlings with Trifecta as directed.
I have witnessed exactly what Luke described: Rapid growth in the early part of the season, with a radiant vigor to my termater plants, followed by an explosion of flowers and fruit set.
I am blessed in that I am not dependent on the food I grow in order to eat.
But even so, I have seen some messed up things: Snails, slugs, and my nemesis: SPIDER MITES!
After nearly a decade of growing tomatoes every summer, I feel like I have taken a beating from a pest or problem ~30x.
If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, then Trifecta is worth its weight in gold!
I read in the comments of another one of your videos a couple years ago to use Tums when you plant and when you see your first flowers to prevent blossom end rot and I have to say, it must work because I've had almost no issue with it since starting that method
After all these years, I still learn something new from you every video. Trifecta rocks, by the way.
I ordered your seeds, had 100% germination, hardened off the plants, and put them in the raised bed with trifecta in the hole. I have three different kinds of varieties, all have flowers and all three cherry Chadwick plants have little cherry tomatoes!! The tallest are around 3.5 feet and the shortest beef steaks are around 2. I think the trifecta is doing its job! My peppers are all looking good as well. Thanks so much for all you do!
First time gardening here in the Adirondack Mountains (Northern NY). I've cleaned 4 cubic yards of dirt, removing rocks and weeds for our beds. Lots of work! Excited for next years growing season as I've had a great start with the soil quality mission. I mixed top soil and compost with the native soil and planted directly in the ground; next year i'll build raised beds. Our tomato plants have only just formed a few flowers. It's been a crazy rainy season here (best wishes to all of those who experienced flooding this season.) It walloped hail this morning, damaging some crops and slicing some Morning Glory vines in half :(
Regardless of our yield this season, it's always a pleasure to play in the dirt. Here's to patiently growing bigger!
Anyways,
Compost vs. Trifecta for tomatoes??
Is your compost good after all the rain? My compost just won't dry and started adding brown paper to.
Your timing is always impeccable! I just spent three hours yesterday trying to figure out why my healthy looking indeterminate tomatoes stopped flowering. I'm hoping it's just the heat.
If it above 90-95*, the plants tend to drop blossoms until the temp comes back down.
Yes, the problem is heat related.
Just when I think you have shared all the things, you teach me something new🙌🏻 And explain something I’ve heard a thousand times in a way, to understand it differently 🙌🏻💖 Just ran out of my big bag of Trifecta, can’t wait to order more💖
You are a walking wealth of knowledge. I appreciate your approach to gardening and sharing your expertise with all of us, so freely. I will always support your company because of your integrity. Thank you for teaching us.
Great video, thanks!
So glad that you made this video! I’m now a better informed gardener. Thank you, thank you thank you, Luke!
I have followed you for years and have always loved your channel, but I have to say this year's videos have truly been top notch, I have learned so much and been so inspired. Thanks for all your hard work and devotion to quality information!
The consensus from gardeners/growers in my area is that weeks of 100 degree heat is causing blossom drop for everyone.
Absolutely very hot temps will cause blossom drop, especially night temps hi too. You might try some shade for the top.
@@maryholder7032 My garden is already partly shaded due to the intensity of high desert sun. I have shade cloth, but I haven't needed it. It's still too hot even with the shade.
Thnx. We have plants with no flowers out here in the north east. Its been a weird season with cool
Weather and so much rain. Plants are healthy but not much fruit and none too ripe.
Me to
Very helpful! Thanks!
I’ve never heard of Bonide spray before. Thanks Luke!
Such a cool am informative video! I have 3 plants and 1 has no fruit. Ibwill water more throughout thebweek and looks for flowers to spray. Thanks!!
Perfect timing!
Hi Luke, question for you, my tomato plants are loaded with fruit. I was hoping they would continue to flower and produce into the fall, but there are no more flowers on the plants. I am happy for the fruit that we have but any ideas why they stopped flowering? We did have a rather intense heat wave (7 days of 100+) which may have been the cause. Any ideas for getting them to set new flowers would be helpful. Thanks, and happy gardening!!!
Love your posts. Thanks.
Perfect timing. I just pruned hella leaves in hopes of getting more flowers.
I did have terrific tomatoes..... Then i threw my back out and was down for a week and we got 3" of rain during that time..... 😅 Now they are all monsters. Hope for the best.
Thanks for the timely share. I'm dealing with all this right now. I have a bunch of 7ft plants that aren't setting fruit dropping blossoms. I started watering more consistently and it seems to be helping.
Last year was hotter, i had tons of Roma's. Indeterminate. This year, i have same number of plants, and less fruit. I fertilize with Alaska fish emulsion. Thanks for the tips.
Same
I know the focus is on fruiting for tomato plants. Does the same concept apply to fruiting for pumpkins?
This summer after my tomato plants put out the first set of fruit (about 20) it continued to grow and all the flowers started and then dried up. No idea why. This is the first year this has ever happened. I usually get tons of tomatoes per plant each summer. This year was very different. I'm in NYC, so I don't think I'll have much time to get another harvest.
Thank you!! 😊
My MIGardener Brandywines are huge! Had to put in a bunch of stakes, fell over and bent my cages 😂 great seeds.
Also, I have at least 100 tomatoes on 9 plants. Very happy plants.
We really like cattle panel for indeterminate tomatoes. If we use horizontal we often add more trellising above.
@@maryholder7032 my husband ran out this morning and bought the stakes like he used in the the video and brackets to attach the the beds. My tomatoes have never been this big! At least 6 feet high in a raised bed. Absolutely beautiful.
What do you think about Bokashi (with biochar and effective micro organisms), Luke? For the past three years we have been putting it in our tomato bed two months before planting. The results have been tremendous (also with your Giant Crimson and Abe Lincoln). The egg shells, coffee grounds, onion peels, etc. combined with biochar provide the plant gradually with nutrients and moisture.
Bokashi contains bacillus bacteria which is pretty beneficial. Tomatoes also pair with endo-mycorhizal fungi and Streptomyces which helps fight disease
I have this problem. Thanks for the recommendation!
I use crushed oyster shells in my soil for calcium. You can buy bags in any Tractor supply store or feed store as they are an essential supplement for chickens. I use chicken droppings and oyster shells in my soil for tomatoes and they do very well.
Do you mean fresh chicken droppings or you compost them first?
Love your channel! And your seeds!!! I have an off topic question😊.due to hail in Central mn I have to transplant perrenials now as garden shed has to be replaced. What is best plan?
Please do more on pumpkins
Is to much rain stress? May was super dry but it has rained five out of every seven days!
I had one Roma plant that developed blossom rot. I took the leftover whey from homemade yogurt and added to all my tomato plants. Problem solved. Romas look gorgeous now.
Good info!
Nice video
Good info.
Nice haircut.
I've been considering buying that stuff. My Better Boy tomato plant is over 6 feet tall now and yet it has only produced 4 full-term tomatoes so far all summer. The flowers and fruit mostly are growing in the middle of the plant or higher. Only the first 2 tomatoes grew further down. Also I have a cubanelle pepper plant that did initially get flowers on it but they fell off and have not grown any new ones. It is now about 5 feet tall and it just has one fork, so not bushy at all. It is watered regularly along with the other pepper varieties which are younger and overall more vigorous. Are Cubanelles hard to work with or could something else be wrong?
Also, I have a question; will cutting the top off a tomato plant get it to produce more flowers and fruit on lower branches?
He never answers comments. You must be new here.
As a new tomato gardener (this is year 3 for me), my understanding is that topping tomato plants helps focus the energy into ripening the fruit that is already existing rather than putting new blooms on and growing more foliage; which can be the most useful for those of us in a short growing season with a frost coming.
So how much water should you give your plants ,,great video
Exactly the video I needed lol 😂
Please consider making more videos using hydroponics & your heirloom seeds!
All of your videos are such a blessing, I've been watching them for years!!!
what are your thoughts on Boron foliar sprays?
I just did a quick online search for tomato set spray. One article states that the hormone encourages non pollinated blossoms to set fruit, resulting in nearly seedless tomatoes. Does this sound right to you? It also states that the seeds which do form will probably be infertile. Maybe this could be a bad idea for seed savers.
I looked up on TH-cam for a video about how to grow a vanilla orchid indoors at home.
The first show that popped up was from (maybe) 9-ish years ago.. The man telling us how to do it looked and sounded just like you, @MIgardener sir, do you still grow your own vanilla beans?
I saw an orchid video that I thought was him also from years ago!
I just bought some seeds.. Most of what i wanted was out of stock.. When will there be a restock?
I have a better boy tomato plant the looks like it has stop growing leaves like its curling up, not sure if its to much to little water to little fertlizer, only think i can think of is we got 2.5 inches in a few days, i put matermajic on them like 1 month before
Got any of those recipes coach?
My pink brandywines two plants are very healthy looking very green and growing great but no blooms yet :(
I'm confused about the set spray. If the plant produces the hormone/scent once pollenated, wouldn't the spray keep the bees away?
I think tomatoes dont even need bees if they are self pollinating?
True
I had to get rid of my cucumber and watermelon plants due to disease in my raised bed. Can I plant something else in those spots or do I need to try and throw all the soil away?
Would it be possible for your seed store to get TPS potatoes. I would love to just have a nice selection of potatoes to grow and not have to worry about trying to find seed potatoes and maybe them rotting before i can plant. A reliable area for TPS would be nice, i dont trust ebay seeds
Good nutritian soil, good root establishment..dont feed too much nitrogen more potassium/phos/..?
Can i purchase trifecta locally? I'm in Canada
What do you do for tomato blight?
my tomatoes so far have been small. we have high heat in utah where i live. I have some plants that are green but havent blossomed in this heat. I hope it will cool down soon.
How about giving them some shade?
What causes small fruit?
My eggplant plant produced many beautiful purple flowers but never any fruits. Any suggestions what happened?
Since tomatoes and eggplants are in the same family can lack of sunlight cause eggplant to flower drop as well?
Where do I prune a indeterminate tomato plant that is too tall?
Have you ever heard of landrace gardening?
Powdered Egg shells or Oyster shells in vinegar for calcium ?
Google water soluble calcium. Works great
Few things as amusing as watching a massive bumble bee hanging of tiny tomato flowers!🤯
I tried buying this Tomato blossom set spray in many stores, Lowe’s, Home Depot & even Amazon, but can’t get it. Found out it is banned in CA.
I grew some Livingston Grape tomatoes (Farm & Fleet sells brand) and will not again. It just produces a ton of blossoms and only a couple fruit. It has everything it needs the same as over 30 varieties that are doing great. I don’t understand it.
👍💖🤗👍
So that's what blight looks like.
Gardening in the north is a quite a bit different than gardening down here. Seems slow and frustrating. Just an opinion.
I wish your trifecta i ordered would get here
My plants are supsr weird. I have three tomato plants in barrels and one of them has 1 tomato the second has 3 and the last one has 9. The one with nine is also with marigolds and strawberries but I dont think that shouldve made such a big difference.
Maybe shouldn't be a big difference but I'd say keep doing it lol
Why do some people count number of tomatoes over pounds? Like one tomato can weigh less than 5g to more than 500g
i struggle with my cucumbers. so many female flowers going to waste. no male flowers at all. (it's not self fertilized)
We have really bad soil, like dead soil. It grows weeds and grass, that's it and the grass is not good.....
What kind of tomato plant did you mention that has good genetics?
Said too fast and I can't make out the name.
Red Centiflore. Amazing tomato!
How about peas? My peas did not produce as much as I expected.
For normal speed, turn to 0.75 playback speed. Slowwwww down your speaking my dude.
That’s funny. I speed him up because he repeats himself so much. Cut to the chase, man.
My tomatoes bloomed then died
I thought potassium was the key ingredient for fruiting. Guess im wrong
A whole lot of nothing
Too much talk be more specific to the subject. Thanks