Eight weeks old and look at them now! Pretty big and they have their first yellow flowers appearing.

So, I have been checking out t'internet for what happens next and there seems to be a whole debate about whether tomatoes grown indoors self pollinate, or need help pollinating. I've read a lot of different articles and forum responses but many of them conflict. Wikipedia seems to give the most comprehensive explanation, but I don't understand whether they need pollination to bear fruit or whether that just makes the fruits bigger and better.

Without bees many sites recommend replicating a bee's buzz with an electric toothbrush?! Or gently vibrating the plant at the pace of a bee's buzz. Hmmmm.

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