Week 8 to 9 Tomato Fruits Have Developed

Tomato that flowered four weeks ago have started to clump up around week 7. The flower petals started to push forward and swirvel up. This leaves the bottom part of the flower exposed and it starts to swell up.

 

The petals manage to stay connected to the developing fruit for a few days. The fruit is the developing plant embryo. The dried up petals fall off and exposes the underside of the new fruit. It takes 7 to 8 days for the this small fruit to develop into the common green tomato fruit that we see in stores.

 

Larger green fruits take around 14 days to develop. As the plant manages to develop fruits it still makes new flowers. 

I realized that by setting the tomato plants in a plot I actually did limit the number of pests that can affect and spread viruses into the plant so on the 8th week we transplated a few plants into the vacant lot beside the house. I will inspect it and post the findings for the 9th week.