[rcf100]

Hi,

I inherited a grow bag from my neighbour.  In here he had planted 2 toms of different varieties and 2 chillies.

Everything is going great guns and when I took all the side stems off his previously untouched cordons I found that 1 tom plant had allowed a side stem to grow, but it's join was below the soil surface.  I have therefore, left it, staked it and treated it like another tom plant.

So now, in effect I have 3 toms and 2 chillies all in 1 ordinary grow bag.

When out in my green house tonight I noticed that 1 of the toms has a truss set with teeny fruit, the other 2 tom plants have flowers but no fruit, with the different variety not having even all it's flowers on one truss open yet.

My plan - tomorrow I will remove the 2 chillies to their own pots, leaving just the 3 toms.  When to feed though?  Do I wait until all plants have fruit set?  To make it more complicated it's the original plant of the one that is now 2 that has set, so I can't even just feed a small amount to that hole as I will be feeding 2 plants.

Finally, the sidestem plant was grown off at an angle and I've managed to get it kind trained round a pole, but it's wrapped round only a 2ft thin cane, which is doing nowt.  I've seen a youtube on stringing them, and I could easily attach the string to my greenhouse roof stabilising strut and I'm happy with how to train tom on it.  What I don't know is what I do with the other length of the string, just attach to the thin cane that's already in place?

[mrs mud]

I put the end of the twine under the plant at time of planting so it holds it firmly as the roots grow around it.  But for now I think tying it to the bottom of the cane would do, maybe make a groove in the cane or something to stop it sliding up

[mumofstig]

or loop it right around the bottom of the growbag and I'd feed at half strength for now 

[Growster...]

I always tie the string loosely round the stem, underneath the first set of leaves, and attach the top of the string to the greenhouse rafter.

As the tom grows, I wind the plant and the string together, so at no point is there any restriction in the plant's stem.

[rcf100]

Thanks folks, off to string and half feed now