Re: Tomatillos - lots & lots of blooms, lots of bees, no fruit.

Dear superseeds,

I liked your old name Pintree Garden's better.  I had a poor harvest of
tomatillos this year compared with 1999 and wondered if you could shed any
light on the situation.  I had One very large plant with hundreds of flowers,
not bearing fruit and one very tiny plant about 15 feet away that does bear
fruit?  The big plant grown in a round 24" high tomato cage, is almost a
tree! The small one was unsupported and grew along the ground.

Could the low yield be a problem of plant sex?

Was the New England weather this year a factor?

Another possibility:  How long a season do tomatillos require?  I started
these in early May and transplanted them in June when they were about 4
inches tall.

Total Harvest: About 10 tomatillos about 3/4 inch in diameter all from the
smaller plant

Looking forward to next year...

-Pat

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smaller seed packets, priced inexpensively they do business at
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Allan Day wrote:

> On Tue 26 Sep, Patrick Callahan wrote:
> > I'm growing Tomatillos in New-England.  I have two plants, one is
> > unsupported and has a few blooms and  fruits on it which are very small
> at this
> > point. about the size of a large pea.  The other, was grown all summer
> > in a tomato cage. its about 4 feet high, with extensive branches (out to
> > about 6 feet. )  It has hundreds of blossoms,(the bees love it) but no
> > fruit yet.
> > Was it just too wet and cold this summer?
> >
> > -Pat
> I have quite a number of tomatillos in one of my polytunnels . This is
> the second season I have grown them. We have a good set again but some
> plants have lots of blossom but no fruit as yet, others have lots of
> fruit set. The same happened last year and the fruit was variable in
> colour but we got plenty of fruit in total. It would seem that you
> always get a mixture of plants, so if you only have one or two plants
> you could be unlucky. Allan
>
> --
>
> Allan Day  Hereford  allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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