Nice Tomato Plant

Hi. Beautiful plant, bet you guys are really proud of yourselves. You have every reason to be. I usually buy seedlings so that they already have a start as I'm not that good with seeds. My tomato plants are about 6 inches tall right now. Long way to go yet. The only thing I have started from seeds are acorn squash and pumpkins. They did turn into lovely flowering vines and produced some fruit but my husband hated them because they were in his way while mowing so we had to rip them all out. Keep planting...you do it very well!

coincidentally.. a tomato plant. actually two of them. i didnt plant them persay, but i found two plants sprouting up from my compost pile from a tomato that had been thrown in there the year before. so i dug them up and transplanted them elsewhere. those two little plants grew SO big and yeilded us well over 3 bushels of tomatoes!! i also gather the seed pods from flowers ive put into my garden and replant them as well the following spring. have had great success with marigolds, this year im trying out snapdragons ;crosses fingers; happy planting!

Your plant looks like it is doing quite well. I'll bet it produces at least some fruit for you. How could it not with the green thumb you have? We planted a fruit cocktail tree in our back yard about three years ago. It's a combination of grapefruit, orange and lemon. Last year it produced two fruits but one fell off and the other didn't ripen before the frost hit. I just looked at it the other day (after hubby bragging enough to drive me nuts) and it is covered in buds that are getting ready to bloom. I hope we get to eat some of the fruit this time.

I save a few bean pods in the fall for spring planting. I used to do that with tomatoes as well till I stopped planting them indoors. I also grow peppers from last years seeds, cantalope, and pumpkins. the pumpkins are dumped into the compost bin in the winter and come spring, I have tons of volunteers coming up.

I have a grapefruit tree grown from seed. It's about 25 years old now and is about five feet tall since it's in a large but not huge pot and has to come inside very winter. It languishes in the winter, loses leaves and gets a little pale, but always comes back green and shiney each spring. I can't believe you even have buds already. The plant is off to a nice start.

The tomatoes that you get will depend on the type of tomato it was that you took the seed from. Some varieties are called F1 varieties, and they don't always grow 'true' to the parent plant. However, it should certainly fruit and there will be nothing wrong with the tomatoes you grow. Enjoy them! I grow most of my veg from seeds I've saved myself, but I'm probably most proud of my nectarine trees which are now probably about 4 ft high. they blossomed this Spring, so I'm hoping I may get my first fruit this year. Fingers crossed please!

Good looking plant there! :) Out tomato plants are thriving, they really love the soil here. I'm starting to grow a pumpkin as well from a pumpkin we ate, it's getting quite big already and I think it will grow well even though the cold months are coming here in Sydney!

This goes along with my volunteer plant discussion. Yes, it will bear fruit, probably cherry tomato, or grape tomato size. That is what my plants that come from last year's seeds have produced. At another time, I would get rosy pink/red tomatoes the size of an egg from seeds of my hybridized plants. If you are like me, you will just enjoy what you get.

that is so nice, we have just had spring weather now for 3 days, the ground still has snow on it and frozen.

Congratulations to your wife, she has done a great job by sparing some time and giving affords for plant. If we all try to do same by giving some time for growing some plant and vegetable we can have great time and we can kill the price hike. I have seen on TV a lady didnot have backyard but she has grown lots of vegetable in her terrace in big pots and she don't have to purchase from the market.

I dont bother growing plants from seeds.Not any more. As a kid or teenager I would, but having to use a seedling tray & keeping it in a suitable location proved to be time consuming. i just purchase a seedling, or in the case of shrubs, maybe one that is a little grown. Anyway, I only plant natives nowadays, & obviously drought resistant shrubs will be on my next list. Your tomato plant looks very healthy. It should still bear fruit.

You always have the best plants of anyone I have seen. I bet those tomatoes are going to be delicious this summer!

Hi GRANDPA BOB! Well, we do have a vegetable garden at our backyard and for the past two years now, we have been growing different varieties such as eggplants, sweet potato, chili pepper, etc..some fruit bearing trees too such as jackfruit, papaya, banana and we do eat them. Very safe and economical for us. haha.. Just my thoughts dear. Take care and have a nice day! :)

hi grandpa bob I grew two whole potato plantsfrom some eyes I had cut out of a potato that was going bad. but after our few rains a dry spell came along and while I tried to water those two precious plants I evidently did not give it enough water so the few potatoes were the size of marbles lol and they ended up as curiosities sitting on my kitchen counter. I used to be able to grow most anything back in South Dakota so whynot here in Southern California with all its advantages.shucks maybe I am not a good gardener after all.

Wow---- great job and I hope it grows big juicy tomatoes. Every year we throw down pumpkin seeds and also let a couple of gourds rot in the yard by the house- Each year we have had a couple of pumpkins and a lot of gourds! The only problem with that is- the gourds all look alike- and we like a variety- Last year we had tomatoes growing on the side hill—We dump the old tomatoes and veggies that don’t get eaten in time over the side hill—to compost—I was looking down the bank (it goes to our crick and saw 2 tomato plants- LOL--- Got big tomatoes on them- but I didn’t eat them…. I thought no way--- I didn’t plant them. LOL…. Plus we had an abundance of other tomatoes from what we grew.

That is great. I would like to start some plants from seeds also but just do not have the time to mess with it. I bought my tomato plants this year and they are huge now. We have a whole bunch of green tomatoes on there. We have not has one ripe tomato on there as of yet. they get plenty of sunlight so I do not know what the problem is. I have started some tomato plants from seeds before and they turned out okay also, but we always have a problem with our tomatoes ripening. We tend to have late tomatoed no matter when we plant them.

Very nice tomato plant, I am kind of envious, I have tried to replant from seeds from the previous year, but they never grow..Now I have had it where a rotten tomato would fall onto the ground as I clean up in the fall, and sometimes a plant comes up the next year..Those are really good, but I didn't do anything to get it to grow..