How to Prune Tomatoes for Maximum Yield and Plant Health
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Date: 2022-07-18
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LestatTravesty
thumbs ups this one. really needed to know what im doing when slimming down my tomatoes. this is the stuff grandma didn't get to pass on to me lol. she is the soul reason why gardening became the biggest portion of my summer: )
i 've been over looking them sun suckers on the bottom that end up just getting dirt washed up onto them or just grow so low that they always just look bad, knowing the whole time that it probably isn't doing anything good for the plant what so ever lol. im not over looking them for now on though. I WANT tomatoes that my granny used to grow. gosh they were frikn amazing. huge. like 8 inches wide. probably 3 pounders. insane. most of the time they shaped into an out of shape obese tomato. but allways were insane yummy. and omg. a toasted mayo and tomaoto sandwich. WE COULDN'T STOP EATING THEM. lol
thanks for the tips bud. awesome and they will be used!
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thumbs ups this one. really needed to know what im doing when slimming down my tomatoes. this is the stuff grandma didn't get to pass on to me lol. she is the soul reason why gardening became the biggest portion of my summer: )
i 've been over looking them sun suckers on the bottom that end up just getting dirt washed up onto them or just grow so low that they always just look bad, knowing the whole time that it probably isn't doing anything good for the plant what so ever lol. im not over looking them for now on though. I WANT tomatoes that my granny used to grow. gosh they were frikn amazing. huge. like 8 inches wide. probably 3 pounders. insane. most of the time they shaped into an out of shape obese tomato. but allways were insane yummy. and omg. a toasted mayo and tomaoto sandwich. WE COULDN'T STOP EATING THEM. lol
thanks for the tips bud. awesome and they will be used!
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chisholm2882
I liked your helpful video about pruning. But--I have several tomato varieties which have leaf minor disease. This just appeared from nowhere! I remove the affected leaves, but the disease just spreads to other leaves. A certain type of moth supposedly has laid eggs into the leaves and the worms mine their way between the leave layers. I have never seen a moth inside the lanai where the tomatoes live in their big pots. All the plants came from Lowes or Home Depot. Could they have already been affected when I bought these as small plants? I have had some tomatoes from these plants but do not know what to do to promote more production. Do you have a video on plant diseases and how to fix that problem? I do not think I have enough to prune! Am in zone 9B, Jacksonville, FL.
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I liked your helpful video about pruning. But--I have several tomato varieties which have leaf minor disease. This just appeared from nowhere! I remove the affected leaves, but the disease just spreads to other leaves. A certain type of moth supposedly has laid eggs into the leaves and the worms mine their way between the leave layers. I have never seen a moth inside the lanai where the tomatoes live in their big pots. All the plants came from Lowes or Home Depot. Could they have already been affected when I bought these as small plants? I have had some tomatoes from these plants but do not know what to do to promote more production. Do you have a video on plant diseases and how to fix that problem? I do not think I have enough to prune! Am in zone 9B, Jacksonville, FL.
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Diane
First time watching and learned a lot and as a newbie and currently having trouble with my tomatoes. I'm in Zone 8a, 30 miles from 7b and it is hot, hot, hot this year. I've placed a canopy that takes away UV rays but allows sunshine and rain over my plants and trimmed off suckers, but I've only gotten maybe two flowers from four different pots. No production at all. The past two years I've had lots of tomatoes (Amish or salad tomatoes. Can't find disease and they're about 3'-4' tall planted in 20 pots. Help, please, if you have any suggestions.
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First time watching and learned a lot and as a newbie and currently having trouble with my tomatoes. I'm in Zone 8a, 30 miles from 7b and it is hot, hot, hot this year. I've placed a canopy that takes away UV rays but allows sunshine and rain over my plants and trimmed off suckers, but I've only gotten maybe two flowers from four different pots. No production at all. The past two years I've had lots of tomatoes (Amish or salad tomatoes. Can't find disease and they're about 3'-4' tall planted in 20 pots. Help, please, if you have any suggestions.
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Mike
I've been growing tomatoes for several years now and I've finally decided that pruning them may be benificial. I've watched several videos now and learned the most from this one. Last year my one plant became a little unruly. It got over 6 feet tall and produced just over 3000 cherry tomatoes. My beefsteak plant was very similar. Got to around 5 feet tall and produced around 90 tomatoes. Is this a normal yield? I literally did nothing other than build a lattice structure with some bamboo to support the plant.
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I've been growing tomatoes for several years now and I've finally decided that pruning them may be benificial. I've watched several videos now and learned the most from this one. Last year my one plant became a little unruly. It got over 6 feet tall and produced just over 3000 cherry tomatoes. My beefsteak plant was very similar. Got to around 5 feet tall and produced around 90 tomatoes. Is this a normal yield? I literally did nothing other than build a lattice structure with some bamboo to support the plant.
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Holm
Im not clear on the difference between a sucker and a sun gathering leaf. Suckers are loaded with leaves and seem like they would be good for providing nutrition to the main stem. So how do you tell the difference between a leaf needed for sunshine and a sucker thats also gathering sunshine?
Also, where did you get that tomato plant wire frame? That is very cool and sturdy, better than the wimpy things you get at Home Depot.
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Im not clear on the difference between a sucker and a sun gathering leaf. Suckers are loaded with leaves and seem like they would be good for providing nutrition to the main stem. So how do you tell the difference between a leaf needed for sunshine and a sucker thats also gathering sunshine?
Also, where did you get that tomato plant wire frame? That is very cool and sturdy, better than the wimpy things you get at Home Depot.
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Shelly
I need a tomato plant intervention, I was so proud how big and lush my plants were growing, then suddenly my back porch started to look like a jungle and I couldn't water them enough. I also had some of my medium tomatoes with rot on the bottom. I read up and realized I needed more calcium and less branches! I just went to town pruning them and added milk and tums to the water. I pray this helps!
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I need a tomato plant intervention, I was so proud how big and lush my plants were growing, then suddenly my back porch started to look like a jungle and I couldn't water them enough. I also had some of my medium tomatoes with rot on the bottom. I read up and realized I needed more calcium and less branches! I just went to town pruning them and added milk and tums to the water. I pray this helps!
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Endoe
Some guy in my community had a spot were we could grow stuff. He was a lazy fvcker, and I ended up pruning alot of his tomatoes. I learned alot just by myself. Like you said, suckered after sucker would grow like a vine. I cut so much trying to get this thing under control. But then the damn birds and bugs got on them. I just gave up. Gardening takes alot of time and you have to check it everyday.
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Some guy in my community had a spot were we could grow stuff. He was a lazy fvcker, and I ended up pruning alot of his tomatoes. I learned alot just by myself. Like you said, suckered after sucker would grow like a vine. I cut so much trying to get this thing under control. But then the damn birds and bugs got on them. I just gave up. Gardening takes alot of time and you have to check it everyday.
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Cortney
I have been gardening on my own for 3 years now, and last year I had a ton of tomatoes and no clue what I was actually doing with them. This year I tried to do less. And actually found a video on pruning. I went out in the rain to prune because I didnt know and dont want the same problem as last year! I want to learn and figure out the best way for me to handle a garden
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I have been gardening on my own for 3 years now, and last year I had a ton of tomatoes and no clue what I was actually doing with them. This year I tried to do less. And actually found a video on pruning. I went out in the rain to prune because I didnt know and dont want the same problem as last year! I want to learn and figure out the best way for me to handle a garden
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dsd
When thinking of determinate v. indeterminate. usually mostly determinate tomatoes are those like Roma. a sauce tomato. When you know this, it makes sense why spaghetti or marinara sauce was born. People who had those determinate plants where they would have bucket loads of tomatoes at a time, they had to figure out how to make them useful, and sauce was born. ; )
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When thinking of determinate v. indeterminate. usually mostly determinate tomatoes are those like Roma. a sauce tomato. When you know this, it makes sense why spaghetti or marinara sauce was born. People who had those determinate plants where they would have bucket loads of tomatoes at a time, they had to figure out how to make them useful, and sauce was born. ; )
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Laura
Great info! Thanks! Last year my husband didn't want me to prune our tomatoes, and we ended up with a Tomato Jungle. They actually produced wonderfully, but it was so difficult to harvest! The plants were well over 6 feet tall and all tangled in on one another! Now I can show him this video and hopefully help change his mind about pruning.
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Great info! Thanks! Last year my husband didn't want me to prune our tomatoes, and we ended up with a Tomato Jungle. They actually produced wonderfully, but it was so difficult to harvest! The plants were well over 6 feet tall and all tangled in on one another! Now I can show him this video and hopefully help change his mind about pruning.
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Bonnie
When we buy the plant in spring, how do I know if it's a short life or grows till colder weather?
I am in central hot valley of CA. Above Fresno.
I have 3 different plants. How often do I feed them?
And one of my plant, early girl, the fruit is small.
The flower buds and is getting huge! Looks like a flower plant!
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When we buy the plant in spring, how do I know if it's a short life or grows till colder weather?
I am in central hot valley of CA. Above Fresno.
I have 3 different plants. How often do I feed them?
And one of my plant, early girl, the fruit is small.
The flower buds and is getting huge! Looks like a flower plant!
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saudade2100
Sterilized shears? What's up with that? I really don't know. Do you transmit disease going from plant to plant with the same shears? And what constitutes sterilized? I don't imagine you have to autoclave the shears like a surgical instrument. Do you dip it in something? Alcohol? Povidone iodine?
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Sterilized shears? What's up with that? I really don't know. Do you transmit disease going from plant to plant with the same shears? And what constitutes sterilized? I don't imagine you have to autoclave the shears like a surgical instrument. Do you dip it in something? Alcohol? Povidone iodine?
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Megan
I have some larger suckers on a few of my plants that are pretty heavy for the main leader. I have them trellised up with string at the moment. Would it be better for the plant to prune some of those larger ones off and plant them or to leave them be? Can you over prune and stress the plant out?
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I have some larger suckers on a few of my plants that are pretty heavy for the main leader. I have them trellised up with string at the moment. Would it be better for the plant to prune some of those larger ones off and plant them or to leave them be? Can you over prune and stress the plant out?
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Connect
I definitely clean up the bottom, but I leave the suckers and take off the leaf below it. I've got 21 big green tomatoes growing and I have 20 new buds on a few suckers I want to keep. Wouldn't it be great to get 40 tomatoes on 1 plant. Just experimenting this year.
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I definitely clean up the bottom, but I leave the suckers and take off the leaf below it. I've got 21 big green tomatoes growing and I have 20 new buds on a few suckers I want to keep. Wouldn't it be great to get 40 tomatoes on 1 plant. Just experimenting this year.
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Michele
Where do you get your tomatoes cages? Or do you make them? Great videos. Trying to grow tomatoes this year and I think maybe we took too long to get them into five gallon buckets. Then we used wood mulch. Hoping it's broken down enough so that the plants grow well.
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Where do you get your tomatoes cages? Or do you make them? Great videos. Trying to grow tomatoes this year and I think maybe we took too long to get them into five gallon buckets. Then we used wood mulch. Hoping it's broken down enough so that the plants grow well.
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