Growing Cherry Tomatoes Indoors

Growing Cherry tomatoes indoors are easy and simple ,the tomato are sweet, juicy and versatile.

They can be added to salads or other recipes. Growing cherry tomatoes indoor can be helpful when it is late in the season or if you do not have sufficient space to grow them outside.

Some Cherry Tomato Varieties

There are many types of cherry tomatoes. Sungold is a tasty hybrid with a yellow orange color. Yellow Pear are tasty and unusual. Blondkopfchen is a German cherry tomato variety with sweet flesh. Green Grape cherry tomatoes are spicy with a yellowy green skin and green flesh when ripe. Black Cherry is a purple colored cherry tomato which is purple in color. Sweet Baby Girl is a very tasty cherry tomato and if you are thinking about growing cherry tomatoes indoors, this is a good variety to start with.

Tips for Growing Cherry Tomatoes Indoors

Cherry tomatoes need warm temperatures and sunlight. If you have a window that gets more than four hours of sunlight per day, that is an ideal spot for your cherry tomato plants. Don't try to grow cherry tomatoes in an air-conditioned room, since they hate chills. If the room does not have a window, your plants will need a couple of fluorescent lights on above them for between sixteen and twenty four hours a day. The ideal temperatures for cherry tomato growth are between seventy and seventy five degrees in the day and sixty five to sixty seven at night.

How to Plant Cherry Tomatoes

When growing cherry tomato plants, it is best to start your plants from seed. Sow the seeds in compressed peat disks. These disks expand to small pots, complete with plant nutrients, then you add the seed and water. Plant several seeds to a pot and snip off all the seedlings but one as they start to sprout.

When each seedling has three or four leaf sets, transfer them to a larger pot. An eight to ten inch one is fine for cherry tomato plants. Fertilize the plants when you transplant them and then once a week as they begin to produce fruit. Add some lime to your transplanted cherry tomato plants to avoid blossom end rot.

For homegrown cherry tomatoes which will be ready by Christmas, do not begin them any later than the middle of October. Make sure your plants are protected from drafts. You might want to put a small screen between the plant and the window so that drafts do not negatively affect the plant at night.

Growing cherry tomatoes means they will need a substitute for bees and wind to achieve pollination. If they are not pollinated, the plants might bloom but not produce any fruit.

When the plants are in blossom, shake them gently at noon every day to distribute their pollen. This is the time pollination occurs naturally. Alternatively, you can flick the stem or use an electric toothbrush to make the stem and flower vibrate.

Growing cherry tomatoes indoors is easy and also a lot of fun. There are many different types to experiment with,when growing cherry tomatoes indoor one thing to remember is that they do not need excessive care as long as you ensure they have enough warmth and light.