What Is The Cause Of Early Flowering Of Tomatoes Seedlings And The Implications On Its Lifespan.

If the nursery was done early and transplanted, like just 33 days from nursery day. No branches yet and not tall enough. This is very unusual. Unless, that should be a hybrid tomato.

Be happy. It means it's a good breed.

The name of the type planted that can caused this is Diva f1. That is East west seed. I also know of the Platinum f1 nursery. That's another fine breed from East west seed. A friend of mine have about 22,000 Platinum f1 tomatoes seedlings in the green house.

* How many days does it need to spend in the nursery before transplanting?

12,000 - 19days, getting ready for transplanting and 10,000 - 11days old.

Nothing spoiled yet. It's normal with some tomatoes. Just keep the necessary maintenance it will grow taller and bring out more flowers. It's only telling you that that variety is fast in production.

However, for some farmers have also planted DivaF1 from the same East-West seeds, and it can go to 60 days, flowers started showing around 48 days.

The cause could be as a result of the plant been feed with more potassium than nitrogen - as a result of the seedlings spending too much time on the bed before you transplant - water stress force flower out as well..

I think we experienced something similar to this before. The portion area of land lack nutrients one year like that and gave us problem. We have to source for many poultry and pig manure, spread all over the area before heaping and planting. That may be the reason for such early flowering, and the harvest may not be bountiful. Always go for f1, you always have bountiful harvest with good agronomic practices. East-West seed, I recommend for you.

Try and side dress npk "20:10:10" now. Thou you should have side dress npk "15:15:15" but because of the lack of nitrogen go for "20:10:10".

And side dress MOP later, after 2 weeks