i just cut a eight foot non productive tomato plant in half. it has just one green beefsteak tomato on it. anyway is it ok to mulch limbs i cut? thanks in advance.
bagins

Billy,
I don't think you should have cut it but you can put it in your compost pile if that's what you mean? There is something called bloom set you can spray on the blossoms to help produce tomatoes. Did you fertilize it too much maybe. I know some advice is to wait til it starts produce tomatoes.
The nights are just right for tomatoes now. I think you may have gotten impatient. Tomatoes need plenty of water, too.

i've been watering and mulching. the plant has had about a hundred blooms without results. i'll get some bloom set. like i posted earlier there has been no honeybees. i'm sure the 97 degree temp and 95 percent humidity isn't helping.
bagins

I was thinking about using Bloom Set also, but I wasn't sure it was organic method. From what I have read, it is a hormone so I don't see any problem. Wow, an 8 foot tomato plant. That's amazing.

an eight foot plant and no tomato is not amazing. that's sad. why don't you ask the group if using bloom set would be staying organic. as i've stated earlier my sister has cancer and her doctor told her to eat all organic vegatables. so i'm trying very hard to grow what she likes and stay organic.
bagins

You could have planted that stem and gotten another plant and you are right about the temepratures, tomatoes won't set fruit at that heat. Maybe if you provided some shade for the plants so the air around them is cooler they will set fruit.
I'm not real sure but I doubt that the "fruit set" sprays are really organic.