Tomato plant-purple spotting!

[headfullofbees]

If you cut them in two with scissors, so that each has part of the roots, you will have two plants

 

[Vicy]

I've tried my best, I don't know if they will survive it but they both had some roots so we shall see!

 

[Vicy]

Update-I lost one of the tomato plants-I knew it, I was too rough with the splitting of the roots and one got more than the other. I figure keep the space for those that have a chance.

Purple gone, but they appear very leafy. 8 weeks old. When should I expect flowering and do you think they are doing OK?

I give them an organic feed once a week. No tomato food yet as I read that was for when they flower.

Weather in Manchester been gloomy for past week or so which they didn't like but Jubilee weekend is sunny!

 

[Chuck]

Buds will start to form very soon now. Start feeding with your tomato feed now. I would have been feeding with it all along as it has a fair amount of phosphorus in it and phosphorus is what makes buds and blooms.

 

[Tincasteve]

I use the same Wilco tomato feed. My bags are on a self watering system and I use half strength all the time with a bit of added Epsom salts. I very rarely have any problems.

The round tubs are also self watering from Lidl and I grow my toms around and around going up 1 layer each round, this stops them being top heavy. Still grown as a single stem. Cherries in the tubs and salad sized in the long grow bags with the beef grown in the greenhouse to get them away much earlier.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Shame you lost one, but still, the one that survived will probably do better without the competition, better one good one than two poor ones.
I planted out a little patch of potatoes, four plants by three and found I had an empty space in the center with two plants growing in the next space. Tiny tomato seeds I can understand, but blooming great seed potatoes? How did I manage that