Scott, Can you move them to a cooler location? The warmer their location, the faster they grow. You can slow them down by keeping them cool and also by not fertilizing. If you deliberately withhold fertilizer until they are in the ground, they won't get as big as quickly either. As far as not fitting under the shop lights, can you put some of them in a sunny window? A sheltered, partly shady spot where they can get sun part of the day and shade the rest of the day? It is hard to slow them down once they get going, but it is not impossible if you can manipulate their conditions a little. Of course, commercial growers use a growth regulator to keep them short, but we home gardeners don't have that option (and I probably wouldn't use it even if I had it). Are your shop lights adjustable? I can raise and lower mine so that they are as low as 2" from each shelf and as high as about 12" above the shelves. When I start my seeds, I keep the lights so close they are almost touching the soil....and the plants as they sprout. Once the plants are growing, I can slow down the plant growth by keeping the lights down low and close to the plant. For example, if the plants are 3" tall, then the lights are only about 1/2" above the plants. That keeps the plants shorter longer. If I raise the lights to where they are 2" above the plants, the plants almost immediately zoom up that two inches to be closer to the lights. Thus, by keeping the lights almost touching the plants, I keep the plants shorter longer. Because it is rapidly approaching the time when I can plant them into the ground here in southern OK, I am now carrying them outside for about 6 hours a day and they are almost giddy with the excitement of receiving that many hours of real sunlight every day. At this point they are about to outgrow the light shelf anyway, so pretty soon I will just start leaving them on the screened-in porch at night. They may get a little chilly at night, and that will slow them down a little, but that's OK at this stage. Our soil is only in the upper 50s and our nights are still close to freezing most nights, so I can't plant them out unless I use Wall-O-Waters, but it won't be long now..... And, we have all kinds of tomato plants in our Lowe's, Home Depot and Wal-Mart. All are fairly healthy, but I never think that commercially-raised plants look as healthy as those grown at home. Their color always seems kind of "off" and sometimes they already have foliar disease issues even though they are not very old or very large, and have been grown in controlled conditions. Sometimes the earliest plants in the stores don't look as good as those that arrive later too. I always grow way too many tomato transplants, but I love the luxury of having back-up plants in case my garden gets hit by a surprise storm....sleet, snow, hail, etc. I usually end up giving away a lot of the extra plants, but I always hang on to some backups until very late in the season. Some of the backup tomato plants will eventually go into the ground in oddball places where I let them grow away to their heart's content. They will be in semi-shaded out-of-the-way areas where they produce a decent amount of foliage but not fruit. I use them as 'trap plants' for the tomato hornworms. When I find a hornworm in the veggie garden, I transfer it to the trap plants where it can eat and grow to its heart's content. That way, I get to enjoy the sphinx moths later in the season without losing valuable tomato-producing plants to the voracious appetite of the hornworm caterpillars. Melissia, Nothing helps you select a garden spot more quickly than having plants just begging to be planted in the ground! It is great that everyone's transplants are breezing along. Now if only the weather would stabilize at the warmer end of the scale so we could get busy planting! Dawn

Plant it outside it will do just fine if temp stays 40 or above. Being close to building will also help. you can cover it with bag or bucket if they say it will frost. Good Luck Bill

Kate, you don't look at daily or weekly forecasts as a judge of when to plant outside. It's best to go by a statistical average.....your location will have an average last frost date based on your USDA zone and other factors. You can either look it up yourself or call your local extension office.

Wow! How old are they? I have a 3 mth old, 1 ft tall dwarf tomato that is flowering but that's because I lost half the plant 4-5 weeks ago. So age wise it's just right. Did you plant from seeds or from cuttings