I'm a beginner at growing tomatoes. I've a few plants growing outside in 5 gallon pots - one plant per pot. It seems to me that they should have ripened already.
The plant with the most tomatoes is the Patio one. I saw the first tomato on it about a month ago. I planted the plant about 7 weeks ago but I had bought it at a nursery after it already started growing. There are several tomatoes on it but they're all green still. Today, a little tomato fell off while I was trying to fix it after some vines started drooping after some heavy rains the other day.
The other two plants are Big Boy and Better Boy. Neither of them are doing much. They each have about two small tomatoes on them. They're about the size of two cherry tomatoes (I think). I bought and planted them the same time as the Patio one.
The weather around here has been a bit unsettled. First we were in a drought, now we've had a lot of rain and some areas have had flooding. The temp. has been mostly in the 80s and lower 90s. The past few nights have been cool though. One week, there was lots of rain and little sunshine. Somewhat unusual summer weather for around here.
The plants are in pots that are sitting on wood blocks above the ground. They have holes in the bottom for drainage and have been mulched. The leaves develop yellowish spots on them and sometimes get dried out and crumble. They get some liquid plant food once a week. About 2 quarts between the three of them. It's hard for me to know when to water them with this weather. Maybe they've been getting too much water and not enough sunshine. Or maybe they've been getting too much nitrogen and not enough calcium. I don't know. I'm fairly certain they don't have any diseases or pests.
Any ideas?