My tomato plants are loaded with fruit and blooms, but the tomatoes are not getting large enough before turning red. They are about tennis ball sized.
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Unless it's a Beefsteak variety that's supposed to be very large, that sounds about right to me! If it's been a good season and the plants have been taken care of (and if they've produced a lot of fruit they probably have) then it's most likely just the size of the variety you're growing. I've had tomatoes fail to get very big in bad conditions, but they were usually pretty small and didn't ripen.
That sounds perfectly normal. Don't compare your homegrown stuff to the GMO's you see in the grocery store!
Some tomatoes just grow to certain sizes. Unfortunately, tags and seeds get mixed up, so you cannot always rely on what it says you are buying. Rather than getting upset, just eat and enjoy them - there have been years when I'd have been glad to get any tomatoes at all.
It depends on what kind of tomatoes you planted they may just grow to that size and some are cherry, roma, beefsteak and who knows which one you planted?
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