A how-to showing how to take off the suckers and pinch the tops of brandywine plants to encourage blooming. Our band plays a little breakdown for you too.
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Question by ashle: How soon can you prep a salad? I am making a salad for my sons birthjday tomorrow. Is it okay if I make it tod?
I am making a salad for my sons birthday tomorrow. Is it okay if I make it today and just leave out the dressing? It will contain romaine lettuce, red lead lettuce, green bell peppers, cucumbers, carrots, red onions, and tomatoes. Will it be okay if I make it tonight? The birthday party is tomorrow at 1pm. But I have so much to do tomorrow. So making it today will save me a lot of time.
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Maybe prep all the ingredients and keep them away from the lettuce until tomorrow. There are certain veggies (and all cheese) that makes the lettuce soggy.
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Hey James thanks for the video. I have a question. How deep is the root system for this tomato plant. I have a balcony that gets tons of sunlight and was wondering how big of a pot I need to put these guys in.
Thanks!
are you in the tropics?
I saved a coupe brandywine tomato plants from the nursery cause they were rootbound. I transfered them in a bigger pot and they are looking great.. But they are producing tomatoes but on one plant has little tomatoes and they are turning red before they get big.. is that normal? Should I pick them once they are fully red or leave them. Do they ripen before they get a nice beefstake size.. I’m dumb founded.. Help
You’re not getting blooms because you’re feeding your plants too much nitrogen too late in the game. High nitrogen should be stopped when the plants are about 2-3 feet tall. Then feed potassium and phosphorus to promote blooms. Feed a weak solution of nitrogen (cow manure mixed with water) one a week to keep the plants happy. Another reason for late blooms in brandy wine is that it’s a late season tomato…so be patient.
I left some suckers o just for the hell of it and guess what? They produced tomatoes!
I don’t know whether to pinch my suckers or not. All I know is that my brandywine plants are not flowering or fruiting and it’s already 22 June up here in my partly shady NJ container garden. Please advise!
Loved the music.. wow, tomatoes and music all in one video!
I did not prune my tomato plants last year and they got so heavy
that they collapsed my cages. The real payoff was in the tomato.
My tomatoes were very meaty with little seeds, but I did not get a lot
of tomatoes. So what to do? To prune or not to prune… that is the question.
Is the time spent pruning worth your efforts?
I have not pruned suckers & leaves from my BW tomatoes this year. So far I have an abundance of flowers that are in excess of the predictable yield for a mature plant. My BW’s are currently 5-6 ft tall with more room to grow. Possibly the fruits may be smaller but the plants may yield more fruit by weight in the long run. The final outcome of the experiment remains to be seen. I also wonder if there will be an improvement in the quality & flavour if left all natural. Worth a try!
Just a word about the sucker issue. I am changing my views around a bit. Not only on suckers but in the entire growing process. I have started working towards changing all of my growing towards a permaculture system. No more rows and no more dig. The sucker issue kind of falls into this because the permaculture concept is to duplicate what nature does and “rev” that up. In wild tomatoes, noone comes by and picks off suckers. You are right about that.
I’m with you…I’m NOT going to prune any suckers from my Brandywine Red tomato plants and leave it the way nature intended it. Why do stupid people insist on denuding their tomato plants of suckers and leaves and expose the tomatoes to hot/scorching sunlight that may ruin the fruit? I’m sure that nature put those suckers & leaves on tomato plants for a very good reason and (like you) I’m going to leave it alone. Your theory about photosynthesis sounds credible to me. Thanx 4 the tip!
Nice video man, ill make sure to to take most of the suckers off.
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Thats right Brad. I have done it both ways (prunning suckers vs. not) and get much better tomato’s when removing the suckers. I don’t know….just my personal experiences. Maybe Sersame has had different experience with his. But the only master gardeners I know (which is only 2) both say I should pinch the suckers.
Thats right Brad. I have done it both ways (prunning suckers vs. not) and get much better tomato’s when removing the suckers. I don’t know….just my personal experiences. Maybe Sersame has had different experience with his.
Thanks :) I have chickens now too and thank them everyday for their contributions to the compost!!
That year I was using just bamboo poles but now I have change my method again. I have over 70 tomato plants and am using the Florida Weave method. Cages are too expensive with so many plants and the poles just don’t support the heavy plants full of wonderful tomato’s well enough.
I have yet again started using a different staking method. That year I was using just bamboo poles. Now I have over 70 tomato’s and now I am using the Florida Weave method. With the number I am growing it is easier and less expensive that cages and works much better that individual poles.
What staking method are you using? Just a long pole? My plants are about a foot high now, I gotta put something in soon!
I like the “Def Leppard” Live @ Sheffield shirt your wearing…Bet most folks didn’t catch that…I had 7 ft. tall Brandywines growing last year in S.E Az desert..This year,I have CHICKENS! that have been cruising the garden bed all winter…I I know it can burn…I’ve been careful.
This is true what you say. But, by not pruning, even though you get somewhat smaller tomatoes, your total yield in weight is higher.
I suspect pruning the suckers is like pruning apple blossoms on an apple tree. If you don’t prune you get a large number of small apples, if you DO prune, you get less count but much larger fruits.
Suckers do not take nutrients away from the plant, they add nutrients to the plant. Suckers are just like other branches & leaves, they produce energy for the plant. If what you say is true, when you take a cutting & plant it, it would die being seperated from the plant; yet it grows. How? Because it produces it’s own nutrients just like the rest of the plant, via photosynthesis. Your yield in pounds and number of tomatoes will be larger if you leave the plant alone.
Have everything cut up (except for the onion, do that tomorrow)…then put it all together tomorrow.
I think you should make it tonite just leave the tomato, onion, and cucumbers till tommarow. And the dressing of course.