Oops...I thought I was still on the Arizona forum. Not sure how to move this...

I only fertilize (Dr. Earth) when I plant, then never again because the fertilizer tells the plant to put out green growth, not fruit. I've done this for years and always have loads of tomatoes and a healthy plant. If you're using a mix with fertilizer in it, that means green and lovely leaves with few tomatoes.

Couple of things going on:

1. Container is too small. Super Sweet 100's are an indeterminate type of tomato and will develop a huge root system. Mine grew to almost 6' with multiple side branching and 100's of fruit. (and I live in a hard to grow tomatoes climate). It was also in a 15 G container.

2. Miracle Gro potting soil is just not very good. If you were to take a survey of regulars to this forum, you would probably get a 99% negative rating on this product.

3. The plant looks like it is starving to death. There is hardly any foliage on it and it needs leaves (lots of 'em) in order to photosynthesize properly and in turn produce flowers and fruit. Part of this may be due to the container size, part to the soil and part to the lack of proper nutrients the soil obviously didn't provide.

There is really nothing you can do for it now except to put it out of its misery. If you review archived threads on this forum for growing tomatoes in containers, you will find a lot of helpful discussions. Or check the Tomato forum. And be sure to read Al's (tapla) wonderful dissertation on container soils - it is absolutely essential information for growing anything in containers. I've linked to it for you.

Here is a link that might be useful: Container Soils

Gardengal nailed it.

Josh

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Does anyone have a link to Tapla's container soil info?