Posted by Gloria | Posted in Videos | Posted on 22-07-2011
Tags: Increasing, Pruning, Strategies, Tomato, Tomatoes
How to prune and prepare tomatoes up a string from www.beginner-gardening.com and award successful garden creator Doug Green. There are a number of crucial issues to realize about pruning tomatoes, the initial is that they way a significant sum when entirely loaded and the tomatoes are ripening. Secondly, when pruning them up a string it is essential to take away the suckers and only allow a single stem to grow up every single string. I used to increase tomatoes commercially and this system works completely for each teaching the tomato all year and cleansing it up rapidly in the fall. Newcomers often request what you connected the tomato to the string with? The answer is nothing. If you bend the tomato around the string a comprehensive revolution every 6 to 8 inches, you will uncover the tomato will stick fairly properly all by by itself by friction. You can see this in the video. So feeding and watering tomato are essential actions to achievement but so is the way you train and prune it. The great thing about a tomato is it grows so rapidly that if you do control to get out the mistaken bits from the incorrect piece of the incorrect route, it will regrow and give you a second or third likelihood. I prune and skinny my tomatoes in this way because pruning to a single stem, will give me more tomatoes for each square-foot than if I permit them flop on the ground. Pruning tomatoes is straightforward the moment you get the hang of it. You can see other video clips at http
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@headgardener2u I live in Norway, In zone H4 .. I keep tomatoes all year round.
Do not get much tomatoes when it is snow outside. But one really get a nice and early start. I would save those suckers that for that.. :p
@G0MPgomp absolutely they will – but too late for any kind of harvest in a USDA zone 4 ;-(
Put those suckers in watr, and they wil lset root, and be new ready tomato plants!
@beautifulbutterfly82 Normally, I get them at that small size as well but indeed, this group got away from me and I decided to video it.
I am nipping the offshoots (suckers is so american lol) when they are still small, only a few centimetres at most which has resulted in very strong 3′ high Ailsa craigs grown under glass in the cool climate of Scotland, is there a particular reason why your offshoots are so big or have you let them get this big prior to the plant fruiting, or are you just a bit busy and its got out of hand.
@operatorbowhunt peppers don’t grow upwards as do tomatoes so it would be trickier as they’re more bushlike but in a long greenhouse growing season, could be done. as for which is the sucker – see my other videos on this there’s one that shows you the sucker coming off the main stem at a leaf axil
would you do the same thing to jalapeno or habenero plants?i have a VERY limited space to grow out with an abundance of space above.one would ideally want to prune this way before the tomatoes started developing? and i have a few tomato plant that will be hard to identify the main trunk,how do i know the right one to prune?
@StatenIslandSlim you’re partially right – if you want to maximize yield per plant (because you have a lot of garden space) then you leave the suckers on the plant. However, If you want to maximize the yield per square foot then you train the plant upwards and prune off the suckers. In other words, if you want more tomatoes per square foot of garden space, (more in less space) then you train and prune out suckers. And those are the whole facts.
those so called suckers are part of the plant and will produce a lot of fruit as long as there is sunlight & nutrients there is no need to prune those suckers and that is a fact.
@swoop1111 I have no idea how you’re actually growing them but if they’re that large, you’re obviously sowing too early. Probably too warm a growing temperature and not enough light at the leaf surface (it should only be inches above the leaves and is moved up as the plant grows) But without knowing what you’re doing – hard to say what to do. I’ve written a ton of stuff on my sites (check out the channel websites) on seed growing and that may help (under the propagation area)
i started seeds indoors & even with the grow light & heat mat 2 of my biggest plants are leggy 16in w/5 branches – can i hard prune them back to promote a stronger stem & maybe take the cuttings & root them. i hate this i start seeds & go to home depot & get crazed at how thick & vigorous their tomato & eggplant starts look. what am i doing wrong or what is their supplier doing right????
@MrMohamelabara check out my video on pruning tomato suckers – they’re the growth that starts at leaf axils (between a leaf and the main stalk). That video shows them and how to prune them easily
Hey one important silly question , how can i tell the difference between a Sucker and a normal branch??
… but you did a great job !!! i’m italian gardener man NO MAFIA, PIZZA E MANDOLINO hehehehe ^_^ only tomatoes
why take away the suckers now you made it too might as well let them grow ?
@akwolfsong
Green house? ie Brick wall 3ft high around your raised bed, and have a tarp or something to drape over during nights in late summer/fall
@akwolfsong tough climate! Check with your local newspaper columnist (Jeff Lowenfels) as he’ll have all the facts. In northerly areas – you have to pick your varieties carefully (short term varieties) heat up the soil in the spring with a black plastic and protect the plants with tunnels for both late and early frosts. Or build a small greenhouse. Or.. all of the above
I live in Alaska (Anchorage area) and have an impossible time getting them to fruit. They flower then stop I believe due to cold. Any tips please?
@wolf2351 Sorry – I’m a Northern gardener and really can’t offer advcie for the South. Check wtih a local garden center and they’ll give you the good dates.
I live in Central Florida and would like to know what is the tomatoe growing season here?