Get 3 Times More Tomatoes By Simply Using Your Fingers!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Everyone wants more tomatoes, but very few people understand how easy it is to get almost 1005 fruit set on your tomatoes by using this simple trick. Try it! It only takes a few seconds per flower and you can use your fingers!
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I believe you about tickling your tomatoes but tears are running down my cheeks, my jaws hurt and my ribs are hurting, watching you and reading those hilarious comments. I found it thoroughly entertaining.😂
Lanc's. Lass Senior Hi, I'm another Lancashire lass and senior, do you think we all have a smutty sense of humour, I certainly do.
I know right???🤣😂
I’ve been growing tomatoes for the last 20 years. You taught me something new today. Thank you!
Luke, this video just blew my mind! I’ve watched hours and hours of gardening videos and have never heard of this. I wondered why nice healthy flowers would fall off occasionally. Makes so much sense! Thank you for sharing.
My tomato plants are asking me for child support now. Thanks a lot.
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I had near 100% pollination of my 50 tomato plants last year using your toothbrush method. We still have tomato paste and sauce from last year and our first tomatoes this year are setting now! A year of tomatoes. Will try this as well.
I did not know that about the flower closing up when successfully pollinated. Thank you! Great information!
It looks like you are not using the single stem method with these tomatoes
WOW! Most definitely gonna do this. But I guess the decent thing to do is to pay for a nice dinner first.
Tyrone doesnt have to pay for dinner
Now that's funny
Just give them some cal-mag and a tickle and they'll put out.
This video and comments section are what make the internet so great.
Sumd3vil to know there are others who think like I do... 🥺😍😚😧
I bet the tomato plants have a smile on their face when you walk by. I'll have to try it to see how they set fruit.
I tried your method and it works beautifully I haven't lost one blossom but I've gained a lot of tomatoes I'm going to keep doing this until the end of the season all the canning a lot of tomatoes this year thank you so much
~I have worked on a commercial tomato farm. We used to tickle them with a vibratory too to encourage pollination. This is essential for aubergines to set fruit.
I've gardened most of my life and never knew this! Fascinating! I'm going to try this! Thank you! GOD bless
My grandfather taught me this when I was 6, I have always done it to my tomatoes and other types and taught my kids the same thing. Thanks for sharing.
Why am I laughing while watching this? Oh we never truly grow up do we? 🤭 😁
We just went through T. S. Cindy here in the New Orleans area. My tomatoe plants were on AVG. 10' +. Even with the plants in cages they were knocked down to about 3' tall. What a shame. It also did damage to my eggplant. I know that they will grow back. I just have a lot of work ahead of me and being a disabled veteran it's going to take time and help from anyone else that wants to help me out. I have been following your tips and applying them to my garden. Thanks Luke.
Hi Rick. I like the fact that you are trying to grow things. It's very therapeutic...keep going.
Smack that flower he’s said...🤣🤣 is it just me or was this the dirtiest Tomato video I’ve ever seen😂😅😅
Just relieved to learn that I am not the only one with a dirty mind.
😂😂😂laughing so hard reading the comments...
The dude likes flicking genitalia - ouchie.
I'm not sure what's better. The really useful information, or the really inappropriate jokes in the comments
Then don't read the comments. There are "kids" on every UA-cam video that think they're funny.
Curt Brennan He meant he LIKED the naughty comments. He also said it a year ago. 🤣
@@USCG.Brennan yes and then there are people like you...wooosh
@@Mr_Daddy1980 And it might have been SARCASM too, right Souky?? But then you'd have to be able to understand English though, wouldn't you?? smh.
@@USCG.Brennan or...read the comments looking for serious you tubers who take themselves and their comments very seriously. UA-cam is a very serious website for serious internet aficionados like yourself.
Too bad that you have to share with us idiots.
“Those vibrations works too...it does not have to be abrupt it just has to be repetitive and shake the flower”
Even with flowers its not the size of the boat its the motion inthe ocean
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I know this works because it worked with my wife and it produced 2 kids
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If you stuck with your fingers you might want to check their parentage 😆😆😆
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Revolting One ...yoy win! this is the funniest comment on here. except for 1 of yr replies.
EPIC
No need to comment, these folks have said it all.
Thank you for the toothbrush tip Luke !
I am physically challenged, and no hand function.
The toothbrush technique will work perfectly for me ! I hope others as well.
Maybe I should be starting my own channel as a disabled gardener...
@@tessasilberbauer6219 That's a fantastic idea!
Finger the tomatoes... Okeedokee. All inappropriate jokes aside, this is good information. Thank you.
Just tickled my tomatoe plants! Thanks for the tip. First time growing anything. I am grateful for the knowledge that's imparted on this channel. Thanks again!
Neighbour: "what are you doing? "
Me: "oh you know, just fingering my tomato plants... Gives a better yield...."
Michael Leung 💀😂
Best thing to do during this quarantine... and the tomatoes too!
I plant comfrey, bees absolutely love them and they go through my whole garden...vegetable, fruit, floral and shrubs. Easy Peasy!
If I'm ever caught in the garden with a vibrator, this will be my excuse 😂
Omfg. I was thinking this exact thing
You just got another subscriber to your channel!.
@@kellyc2425 Well, I'll remember to talk about vibrators more in future 😂
did you mean, “a vibrator” or “my vibrator”?
No excuses needed. Just go about your gardening and enjoy.
You are a very good teacher of the birds and the bees!!! :)
I feel like I should clear my browser history now :\
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😂 I was thinking the same thing
We got such dirty minds hahahahaha
Don't SSleep 😂
Lmao
Good explanation about the flower structure. I've heard already about manuell pollination, but you were the one who explains why and how this works on tomato flowers. Love your way of explaining and simplifying things. Good job! Thank you
When I'm feeling sad I must remember to watch and listen this video gain and definitely read all the comments. Thanks Sooooo much Migardener!😂😂😂😂😅😅😂😂😂😛😆😘😘
Given the current world situation hope you came back here for a giggle
This is exactly what I do. When I’m feeling sad I come watch this video and it makes me laugh every time! Educational -AND- wildly entertaining?! Yes please!!
Gonna feel awkward everytime I walk by my tomatoe patch
This guy is about to get caught up in the me too-mato movement with those moves.
Lol!
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That's the best laugh I've had in ages.
OMG! So FUNNY!!!
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Demo starts at 4:17. My father-in-law use to beat his apple trees with a broom and also used a broom to 'brush' lightly his strawberries blooms
The tomato flower is like "Oh yes, yeah, do it... ooohhh...."
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i grab the main stem and shake the whole damned thing. but i use urinal rules. longer than 3 seconds and you are playing with it
You sound like me, too much going on in the garden.
Franklin Hicks lmaooooo
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A few years ago I planted three Roma tomato plants. I was amazed when they yielded over one hundred pounds! I could never duplicate that ever again! I wonder what I did right.
Where is your mulch? Where are your stakes?
You put it down that year! ✋😂
All Roma’s are heavy producer
Where was this video a month ago when I was going around with a tiny paintbrush trying to pollenate my tomato blossoms because I didn't have any bees😟🙄?? Thank you once again with providing me with important gardening info. You have taught this retired teacher many useful gardening tricks.
Tomato don't need insects, 90% of polinisation is from wind only.
Pepper plants must be similar, you only have to shake the whole plant and it pollinates, it was fun the first year I had peppers in the winter in the house! From the garden plants transplanted. This year I put them in containers, no more digging!
exactly... tapping them though will give you more chance of more fruiting.
MeLu B n
you don't need bees to polinate vegetables especially tomatoes. You need bees for fruits and fruit trees. The wind and tapping tomatoes will help to pollinate for higher yields, other wise vegetables are self polinators with the help of wind.
Thank you for the tips in gardening, now I understand why my cucumbers and zucchinis don’t get fruits but I got lots of tomatoes. I only grow them in big buckets on our balcony but next summer we will be growing vegetables in our garden (we’re moving in nov this year) so I need all the gardening tips. I live in Sweden and it’s zone 3. More power and success to your channel!
Wow, very interesting. I'm definitely going to try that this year, especially with my peppers that never seem to have high yields.
I love the two finger method,can't wait for spring. I have been gardening 30 yrs.or more and I still learning new and wonderful things,thanks for the fantastic tips. Keep on digging 👍🌿
05:27 Lost oportunity to put some Barry White playing in the background
Yoga with adriene
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Flower foreplay!
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@@catholicfran not foreplay, most of them got pregnant (pollinated )
Ok... time to go aggressively finger my tomato plant... 👉🌾🍅
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Giggity! :D
Lipstick Junkie oh my! This just made me think of Joe Biden.... Ewww
I haven't had anyone finger my pollen in awhile 😉
When my son needs "The Talk," I will just show him this video. Lol
Am a Filipina & just saw your video in the nick of time .My tomatoes are currently flowering but I don't see any bee around.after seeing your video I guess I have to be the pollinator.thanks man you're a great help
Was it as good for you as it was for the tomato plants? Lol
I wonder if the tomatoe plant had a cigarette afterwards .
Thanks man, this was such a great tip. I tried this last year and year over year I think our yield was at least 3-4x than not doing this. This in combination with doing suspended overhead trellis with twine/plastic clips really made for a good return. This year we will do the same and lessons learned our output should be even higher!
I've heard of people "tickling their toms", never really knew what they meant until now, thought they were waiting for the fruit and tickling that like it was a cat's chin... :P
tickling a cat's chin!!
I giggled through the comments but this made total sense AND it freaking worked! I only had 2 tomatoes on my plant and the flowers were falling off like crazy. I told my friends I was "tickling my tomatoes" to give it a try and I have so many that are growing, super excited about this.
Really, how have I been growing and canning tomatoes for the last 50 years without knowing/doing this...
Heat is a major problem with pollination because the hot muggy summer weather makes the pollen sticky. When I was a kid on the farm my grandmas would take a broom and beat the bushes to shake them up. Same idea.
I've never been a strawberry person as I never thought they were very sweet. But then I tried some my family grew and its amazing how sweet they are! Definitely grow your strawberries, never buy!
I learn something new everyday I watch a MiGardener video (even when I watch one over again, I learn something I missed from watching it the first time). Thanks Luke! You make me want to hang out in my garden alot more these days. If it was not for folks like Luke on UA-cam, I would not have a successful garden right.
I'm still wondering how I got here...and then started reading comments as soon as he starts harrassing the tomato plants haha
This video has so many parallels to life. It would be *so helpful* to flick The Flower for 10-20 minutes. So worth the time and effort.
Who knew fingering would work if there are not many bees around? Gonna finger my tomato flowers to death once they come out!
His "Tomato plants" look like pot plants to me.
@@crazyclown2650 you've clearly never seen pot plants.
I did this last year and I had my most efficient yield I've ever had on this property (over the last 10-years). I live next to a large wooded area and I've been dealing with many issues to get a good garden. The first year, I achieved three edible tomatoes out of 26 plants. The plants all started well and grew to be very large 5 foot to 6 foot plants with many flowers. This first year was an education for me because in previous years at other locations, I had grown many productive plants with little effort on my part but now with all the fungal load from the woods I was getting powdery mildew on my melons and cuks and blight on my tomatoes. I finally realized I can't kill it within the normal budget of a home gardener and I had to manage it with copper soap, epson salts, and neem oil. Last year, using your suggestion, and all of these neutralizers, I was able to get almost a 75% yield .
I use a rolled up news paper or something like that and just tap the entire branch or the whole tomato plant it self.......just to save time....if you're u have a lot of tomatoes like I do.......it's just a time saver!
I *highly* recommend you put some asparagus crowns in with your strawberry bed. The two work very well together. In the Spring, when you're looking for berries, you'll also be getting repeated sprigs of asparagus. In Summer, when you let the 'guses grow into ferns, they shade the berry plants nicely, and keep berry pests away.
That's some serious style...pay attention men!
HA! I lost it!
I laughed so tear ran how my leg! Do you realize how fun and funny your videos are? Learning too!
Buy a 4 dollar disposable vibrating tooth brush. That works great. Or, if you want, you can go to the bedroom drawer, haha
I watched 2 of your videos today and I learned 2 important things about tomatoes. #1 using BT to control bugs and #2 shaking flowers. looking at your tomato i do not see any holes in the leaves. Good job. thank you very much
Love your videos, nice to have a Midwest gardener share
Really love your vids. As a city person w zero gardening experience, I totally appreciate your simple explanations and demos.
Hi, thanks for all the great content. Quick question, I know summer is just starting, but do you think you will do a video soon on planning for a fall garden? It's one of the things I struggle with the most. i.d. fall seed starting, timelines, are shade clothes necessary for cold tolerant plants during the summer heat? SO MANY QUESTIONS lol Thank you!
Me too, as I'm really looking forward to making a much bigger crop this. Fall!
Joseph Khristov that would be so good, I second that request!!
Got my hand on a pack of yellow pear tomatoes and can’t wait to see the awesome additional color to the garden!!!
Omg! I've seen when the flowers die off at the joint. I'm going to do this when they start blooming and flowers open. I plant in containers, no in ground planting here in the city. Thank you!
I’ve had the same problem in the city and couldn’t figure out why the flowers kept falling off! I thought it must be a nutrient deficiency or something. Excited to try on my container veggies too. Good luck!
It is extremely rare that I ever check out the comments section. But after the first few minutes of the video I knew the comment section would be a Goldmine. And you sick, twisted people didn't disappoint lol !!!
Alright... I'm going outside, now, to play with my flowers...
gosh, thank you SOO much. Mine just got a few blossoms, and I needed this information!!
I went out after this video and smacked my tomato plants. Nice video. I have heard of this method before but had forgotten about it. : )
Wonder if you can just shake the whole plant
Tomato likes it rough.
I tried the tomato trick last year and it worked great. My yield was fantastic. The fruit was plentiful and beautiful.
Thanks for the helpful hint! I'm going to try this on my tomatoes👍😁
From Michigan: Thanks for the tips!
The comments on this video are going to be hilarious!
Needs to put those finger moves to better use.
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I found this very helpful and will be doing this to my tomatoes from now on!
I saw that if you put plastic forks into the soil and put the strawberry over the tines. It helps keep them off the ground, so you get more berries not eaten by bugs or birds. Let me know if you try it
I've tried a few methods to keep my strawbs from being eaten over the past 12 years, and, it's always the slugs & birds that get them, so, my advice is to grow as many plants as you can, that way you're in with a chance of getting some fruit for yourself... :)
I tried straw one year, made little difference, them slugs & snails became immune to the stuff, or had learned to jump, cos they still stole my strawbs!! :\
+twocvbloke they are not immune to sharp eggshells. Put the sharp side up and all over! It is like broken glass. Dont crush them too fine!
Save some old mayo jar lids and press them at ground level. Then pour some cheap beer in them. Slugs will be GONE !~!~!~!
Boo luquette that works great
My tomato plants are in my greenhouse with a bamboo stake next to each plant for support.
Every lunchtime I walk up and down the centre and gently tap each cane.
Finally I give the greenhouse a good soaking in order to increase the mid-day humidity and this helps the pollination too.
Regards from The UK
Getting frisky with tomatoes. Yes vibrations work really well!!
A tuning fork also works quite well. Another interesting tidbit is that bumble bees don't vibrate their wings to release the pollen, but they vibrate their thorax at a specific frequency to do so!
I just hit the 👍, and it switched to 1K!!!!
Nancy K I just hit the like button and I see 5.1K. :)
Thank you for this knowledge ! I only have patio space ,and want to share my harvest with others .. ✔👍👌
Great tip. Thanks for sharing! (By the way, I just found your channel and if even a quarter of your "gardening tips" titles are accurate, I sure do have plenty to learn from you). Thanks again!
i tried this on my purple indian tomato plants a month ago and now every flower on the plant has little tomatoes on it . Thanks for the awesome tip , it actually made quite the difference in comparison to previous years !!
im going to give it a try! interesting tip
Thanks. I'm new to gardening and this is very helpful. As soon as my tomatoes get flowers I'll start doing this.
"You can do it hard" ..." smack that"...common man
Gonna give this a shot this year. Interesting technique.
You're making me blush. who knew gardening could be so sexy. 😉
I had no idea why my tomato harvest was horrible last year - with tons of blossoms falling off. Definitely appreciate the tip 👍
anyone else need a smoke??
Bryan Keith
Trevor, Corey, smokes, let's go
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@@reformationinc.3376 😂😂😂😂
TPB.... classic
Totally going to try this. I have a beefsteak tomato plant with only a single fruit on the entire plant, and my cherry tomatoes haven't shown yet either. thanks for the tips and tricks.
10 to 20 MINUTES?! Jesus Christ, Kevin. 🤣😂😂😂🤣😂
Blasphemy is outside of the community guidelines.
@@JohnSmith-gy4qj not sure if you're serious or cracking a joke.
Gosh, you got a lot of comments on this one. Thank you for sharing. I appreciate the tips. After so many stuff ups this season from snails feeding n cats using my garden as a kitty litter tray [I wasn't wanting that sort of manure] I was so pleased to see my first truss of tomato blossoms. My finding and watching this video at this time has helped. Blessings
the missus must be please with the practice you are getting
Thank you for this, I'm going to be growing some tomatoes soon so this has helped me a lot.
"vibrating toothbrush" ... okay, I need a cigarette now.
I've done something similar but with a cheap paint brush, like what you'd paint watercolors with. It might not matter but I like getting the pollen on the bristles and transferring it amongst different flowers.
My takeaway: Tomatoes like it rough 😏
Brilliant! Some of your vids have been, educational, entertaining, and... have been keeping me company over the last few weeks. Thank you!