Blindness in tomato plants.?
Blind plants (INCOTEC acronym BliPs) in tomato is a disorder concerning the growing point.
It may occur early in development, resulting in a seedling with no true leaves up to just one, two or three leaves. It can also occur later in the plant development, after the 5th or 6th node has developed, but at this stage, this is mainly an effect of growing conditions.
It is still not known exactly what causes blindness.
There is certainly a genetic factor, which determines whether a cultivar can be sensitive for developing blind plants, or not
(it may be related to the "determinate" character).
If and to what extent this sensitivity comes to expression, can depend on several factors. Conditions during seed production, as well as during post-harvest processing of the seed can increase the sensitivity, and may eventually, when a "threshold" is passed, lead to an increase in blind plants. Furthermore, germination and growing conditions can have an effect on the occurrence of blind plants.
Reply:Further investigation suggests that lack of daylight in the early stages of development plays a large part in this condition, as I sowed the seeds a month earlier than I normally, do I would be inclined to agree. Jim McCall of Beech-Grove Gardens offered this advice. Report Abuse
Reply:i have personaly never come across this problem but if you have not taken all the side shoots out of the leaf joints you can train one of these as a new growing point
Reply:Some time ago when my son was very small he %26amp; a friend got into a nieghbours garden %26amp; picked all the green berrys off of a bush yes it was all unripe tomatoes this could be the cause
The solution is to keep little fingers off your fruit
Reply:No idea but this sounds intriguing...might go look it up...
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Reply:what in the heck
Reply:I've not heard of this, where did you get your seed. Try taking out the side shoots and putting them in water, after a week or so they will produce roots and become new tomato plants. They may well produce fruit but maybe do this as just a 'fun' thing and buy yourself some more tomato plants.
Reply:wtf!!
Reply:If you mean plenty of leaf but no flowers then you are feeding it too early. Do not feed tomato plants until first fruits have set. Otherwise have you accidentally pinched out the flowering spikes along with the side shoots?
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