"Danny D." writes:

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 12:56:19 -0400, dadiOH wrote:

I sneak food scraps into the wife's potting soil when she's not looking,
and these pepper plants grew, but no peppers came out of them yet (and it
has been a few months).

Food scraps = NOT meat, I hope = are of no value to plants until they (the
food scraps) decompose and that takes quite a while

My mistake for not being clear.
What I mean is that the tomato plant you see here was grown from a Costco
tomato food scrap. I acted like a cuckoo bird by burying the tomato in the
wife's basil pot with the full knowledge that I was making her feed my
experiment.

http://i.cubeupload.com/Si8QN3.jpg

In very short order, she started remarking "Did you put something in my
basil pot?" to which I avoided her gaze until I could no longer. She is
still taking care of the tomato plant, even as it crowded out her basil.

But the darn thing has no tomatoes.

We don't know why.
Are Costco tomatoes infertile?

Nope.

Or are the bees not doing their job?

Bees pollinate the flower allowing the plant to form fruit.
In the case of tomatoes, they are most commonly wind pollinated:

While tomato flowers are typically wind pollinated, and occasionally
by bees, the lack of air movement or low insect numbers can inhibit
the natural pollination process. In these situations, you may need to
hand pollinate tomatoes to ensure pollination takes place so your
tomato plants bear fruit.


I did the same with pepper food scraps:
http://i.cubeupload.com/3R6DYR.jpg

No peppers either.

Same deal with peppers.

Are food scraps infertile?

Nope.

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Dan Espen