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Another of my dumb tomato questions
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Posted by Cosmicgardener N W TAS (My Page) on Fri, Dec 9, 05 at 6:20
| The tommies in the hothouse are going cosmic - some have up to 15 trusses on them and just setting fruit. Question is - does one reduce the number of trusses or do you let them all fruit. Does it make any difference in quality if there is a high yield per plant? Hate to see any go to waste, but its flavour I need - the outside ones are behind a few weeks but flowering well so also look as if they will have plenty.
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Linda |
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RE: Another of my dumb tomato questions
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Hi Linda
I just pulled a Cherokee Purple plant that stopped growing after setting 10 fruit on the first truss. Should have pruned most of them off.
Other plants in the greenhouse are setting fruit on each truss with no problems. So, if the plant looks strong dont prune, but if it starts to slow down or show discolouration on the top leaves, prune the trusses back and fertilise the plants.
Mantis |
RE: Another of my dumb tomato questions
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There are two traynes of thought on this. One is to let nature do its thing, then at least you know some varieties are grown badly in your area, the other is to prune and get larger fewer fruit. I have about 80 plants, and I don't touch them , except to tie them up, but a lot of people prune them back to the two or three strongest branches, and then prune the fruit to two or three on each truss.
I don't mind having a ton of small tomatoes. Some of my varieties are huge anyway.
It just means more fruit/more bottling/ more relish/ more drying, but if you have the time, why punish them for being themselves. ????? |
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