How To Prune Tomatoes
March 26, 2010 by Admin
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7/11/2008Growing Wisdom:Pruning Tomatoes Pruning tomatoes is one of the easiest and most beneficial things you can do to increase fruit size and help lessen the chances of disease. First, let’s talk about which tomatoes to prune. Indeterminate (climbing) tomatoes should be staked, trellised, or caged, and pruned for best results. Determinate (bush) tomatoes do not need pruning and may be grown with or without support. Now what is the difference? The fruit of determinate tomatoes ripens within a concentrated time period. The fruit of indeterminate tomato varieties ripens over an extended period, and will continue to grow until they are affected by the first hard frost. For example, you may have purchased a container tomato plant for your patio. Typically, the tomatoes commercially available in containers are determinate and do not need pruning. However, you still should give it some support. On the other hand, the cherry tomato plant in your garden is most likely an indeterminate plant – if you don’t keep it in check, it might take over! The basic method of pruning is to remove the suckers from the leaf axils of the tomato plant. Click here to see a video on how to prune tomatoes. The sucker is the growth that comes up between the main leader of the plant and the side branches. There are a couple of schools of thought on removing suckers. Some people remove all the suckers. Some leave the first sucker after the first set of flowers. This gives you two leaders. I do the …
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@cavetroll666 you are the fake
What kind of wood are they using and do they resuse the stakes every year?
sucker detection ,sounds good
tomatoes suck jesus is fake.
Many thanks for the video.
Its nice for an old tomato grower like me to learn new tips, your basket weaving is great and also trimming the growth ends a month before frost. thanks again
Fantastic video, thankyou very much!
Excellent video. Wish I saw this in the Sping!
my tomato plant is about 8ft high its a sunbaby..how can i prune it to make it smaller..???
They will not grow “seeds” they will grow roots.
You can prune the plants, then remove the leaves of the bottom of the plants, then place them in a jar of water from approx 2 weeks. They will grow seeds then plant them in a pot of compost and you will have more plants (cloning) !!
I have seen a lot of books, video’s on growing tomatoes… and this 3 minute clip has got to be one of the most informative resources I have yet to find! The mysteries on how to identify leaders and suckers on indeterminate tomatoes finally answered in plain english and illustrated so you can actually see what they are referring to! Thank you!
Thanks for the tips on pruning, I am a novice growing my first plants this summer, I like the tip for basketweaving and will try it!
I cut suckers off and buried them into the soil, and there were other independent tomato organisms. Basket Weaving is a good idea. I had to make one knot a prop a tomato plant; it was a time-consuming job.
Excellent, thanks!
Best tomato video I could find, ty
I liked the whole video. Easy and informative. I really liked the basket weaving and the point of pinching the leaders about a month before frost. I wonder does pinching the leaders apply to the bush type tomatoes as well??
watched allot of videos on this topic but only after watching this one do i now no how to do dis
great vid guys
Thank you for that, very helpful. I agree with Clepto. I think the others are teasing us.
Very helpful! Thanks!
sounds….sexual KEKEKEKEKE
Showing us, with the diagram big help thank you. Alot of video’s I have watched talk about it but do not show you.
easy and to the point
very helpful
nice very detailed!
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