Tomato pruning

[momofdrew]

Two years ago I pruned off a few suckers- just enough to get my arm in to pick the tomatoes off more easily. I had a lot of huge "braggers". Last year I developed an allergy to tomato stems and leaves so I trimmed off A LOT. I still had an incredible yeild but they weren't as big as i'm used to. In a perfect world I would only trim half my plants so I could get the large numbers and huge tomatoes but, I have to trim off a lot so I don't break out in hives.

wear long sleeves and gloves I have to do that around spruce trees....ITCHIE


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[chris09]

determinate tomatoes should not be trimed... they dont grow very high and they dont send out as many suckers...

You can trim Determinate tomatoes in fact all tomatoes will do better if trimmed. With Determinate tomatoes you only want to trim the suckers/ shoots below the first flower cluster.


Chris

 

[897tgigvib]

I have only pruned Tomatoes if I perennialize them, just as cold weather arrives and they come in. Then they get pruned way back. That was when I lived in Montana. My Marianna's PeaceXGiant Syrian F1's lived 4 years doing that making wonderful tomatoes until I moved. The Giant Syrian grew probably the biggest tomato in Montana, or right up there.