My tomato plants were doing great...I have about 15 tomatoes on 2 plants, but now the flowers are falling off.

The flowers bloom and then shrink and then fall off, the entire last part of the stem turns yellow instead of green and falls off taking the dead flower with it. When I pull out the flower part, I can see the tiny tomato...but it never grows any bigger than the size of an earring stud. Also, it seems as though the tomatoes that I do have on the plant are taking forever to turn red and I am starting to wonder if they are ever going to ripen fully. I am dying to eat one, but they are just not turning red...I also wanted to wait to eat any fried green ones until I had a fresh red one. I am using a fish emulsion fertalizer and an aphid spray (prob with red and black aphids) and I think I have a minor fungus (leaves at the base turning yellow, but think it is due to the extra humid conditions we have had this month...should clear up when it stops raining.)

My tomato plants were doing great...I have about 15 tomatoes on 2 plants, but now the flowers are falling off.
Sounds to me like you have blossom drop. It can be caused by too much fertilizer amongst other things. Stop fertilizing and killing the bugs on your plants and let nature take it's course.


As for riping tomatoes, depending on the variety, it could take a month and a half before your tomatoes are red and ripe.


Here is a little info about blossom drop:


http://gardening.about.com/od/problemspe...


Good Luck...
Reply:You might be over watering it; that could be the cause of the stems turning yellow. It takes time for the fruit to develop. And it depends on what kind of tomato plant you have. If it is a cherry tomato plant the fruit is not going to get very big. And for the fungus; try using a fungicide. And keep the weeds, grass, and bottom leaves clear off the plants. You need to let the plants have plenty of air circulation %26amp; sunlight to help clear up the fungus which trives on moister and darkness.
Reply:PLEASE do not eat anything from those plants..Very possible they are diseased.,.
Reply:Sadly it could be just too wet. Blight affects tomatoes as well as potatoes, and I lost an entire - and promising - crop of tomatoes to blight a couple of years ago. I hope for your sake it isn't that.