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Question by Sje: Tomato plant growing too big, can I trim it down on top or will that kill it?
I have a yellow pear tomato plant that is almost 6 feet tall. It’s outgrown it’s cage and I don’t have a way to let it keep growing without it taking over the other plants around it. Can I trim it down somehow or is this just certain death for the plant. I’d say from 4 feet and down there are all green pears tomatoes growing but nothing much above. Thanks.
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Answer by earthbound
cut back a third of the plant and thin the fruits for the remaining ones to develop you can only use so many
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Cutting it back will shift the plants efforts into producing new branches instead of filling in fruit.
You can
1. tier the plant horizontally by training the plant to go along a fence or a rail or a support especially provided to give a horizontal support.
2.pick the lowest fruit and let the plant stem drop down to the ground to a point a few inches below the lowest remaining fruit. (This is the practice in commercial tomato greenhouses)
Yes you could trim it but at the main stem where the others are branching out from. you could always but a larger tomato cage for it as well
there is no need to cage a plant. cut the newest growth off and prune often.