BonideProducts 543 Ready-to-Use Tom/Blossom Set, 8-Ounce

Our area has take a beating in keeping honey bees at a good level. Honey bees seem to be best pollinators for several items in my area. However, the honey bee population is so low that most blooms do not bear fruit as other pollinators either are scarce or need different method/species. I have used this spray, which stimulates a flower to think it has been pollinated and starts growing fruit. Most years I get hundreds of cucumbers off of appx 10 plants, and a very good yield of tomatoes. Fruit taste is very good. I have seen no difference between natural pollinated fruit and sprayed flower's fruit. Also can use late in season as many pollinators decrease polulations.

My tomatoes were loosing their blooms before they could get fertilized. This stopped the blooms from falling off. Good product. 8oz lasts a long time for a small garden.

Purchased this booster spray from Amazon @ the first of the gardening season. Started using on blooms as soon as they appeared.Never have I had the success with bell peppers & tomatoes experienced this year. I am a believer. Several other crops benefited from this product also. Advertised as an all natural product.Follow mfg. directions for use & enjoy the increased size of your harvest. This product works!!Gave it four stars instead of five due to difficulty in getting the last 1/4 of the product to spray from the bottle.The flow tube is a little short & not the best quality pump I've used. Easy solutions to this problem.

We were having trouble getting our Big Boy variety of tomatoes to set during mid Spring when they should have been naturally setting. The spray greatly increased fruit set with fruit doing well to maturity. Use of the spray even after hot weather usually stops fruit set resulted in continued high set percentages. We sprayed the blossoms twice weekly until mid June (Southern Nevada) with very satisfying results. We found it economical and easy to use. The spray bottles showed no trouble with clogging.

This stuff works great for me! I’ve used it on my tomato and pepper plants and both have had a high yield. Works great!

Blossom set should be used with gloves such as hospital type not cotton. It will increase the yield of tomato by at least 30 percent is what I have found. This brand says to wet the entire area around the blossom I do not think it is something you need to do. A good spray into the blossom will do it. I have used it for years and found it to be great if you think it won't work as well as I say try using on one end of your garden and not the other, you will see a huge difference. I also thing spanking the plants is a good idea. This is done by taking a small piece of newspaper and rolling it up and taping on the stem all the way to the top. Stay away from the blossoms when doing this a couple times a week it help move the pollen. We'll enough said this is more than I've wrote about anything in years.

Seems like the product worked. My beefsteak tomato is in a 18" pot and the flowers kept dropping. I’m not sure if the spray did the trick, or if the weather dropping from over 90° to 70’s and 80’s is what caused it to fruit, but the flowers I sprayed finally produced fruit and didn’t drop this time. I’m happy with it and will be using it next year.

Early in the season, my cucumbers had many female blossoms and few male blossoms. I had only two cucumbers growing. I sprayed with the blossom set, and suddenly many cucumbers. I don't know if it was the blossom set that did it, because under the right weather conditions, cucumbers will suddenly take off. I do think it was the blossom set though.Later in the season, with my tomato plants way too heavily loaded with tomatoes, and I was getting few new blossoms, I sprayed with this blossom set. It really didn't seem to do much, if anything, but it was hard to tell.Sorry, but I can't really say for sure that it did a fantastic job for the cucumbers, and very little for the tomatoes.But what I can say is that the pump sprayer on both bottles of this stuff that I've had, is really bad. It's almost always troublesome. And at times, particularly when it gets a little air in it, I've have to pump the thing as many as 30 times to get it intermittently spraying again.In the end, the trouble with the sprayer makes this a no buy product. It's just a plant hormone, no big secret. One brand should be as good as another. Find a different brand with a better sprayer.EDIT 9-5-13About month ago, I bought a 32oz. bottle of this stuff at Rural King for $7. Also, the sprayer was better on the larger bottle.

Good Product, best tomato crop for some years.

I think this is a reasonable product. The spray bottle that it comes in however is a real piece of crap.. Why oh why provide a spray bottle that really doesn't work very well. I shake and shake the wretched thing but will it spray.....NO! In the end I poured it into another spray bottle and it works fine. Sort the bottle out guys. It really is not fit for purpose.

Disasterous experience with both product and seller. I don't know if it was due to the fact that I lost 1/3 due to leakage and rest possibly oxidised enroute but it didn't work. Also be aware that the product has a number of HAZARD warnings printed on the reverse and when I saw the leakage I had to dispose of the offending liquid and packaging which resulted in a very strained communication with the seller as I got rid of the packaging immediately and therefore was made to feel as if I was trying it on. I've later read other reviews where it's clear that others have had similar issues of leakage and it should be noted that if you do encounter this, that you wear rubber gloves and rinse off the bottle and photograph everything to avoid a similar unpleasant experience. I ended up with a partial refund but really it should have been a full one as I believe that it has been damaged through exposure to oxygen. I don't like writing this kind of review and I'm sure if you are in the States and have a shorter dispatch and transit this probably won't occur.