Once your tomato plant starts to grow, you will want to prune it to remove the suckers. To prune your tomato plant, eye your plant along the stem and look at…
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Question by PatsSoxCeltsFan: Should you cut back tomato plants?
I am growing Roma tomatoes, and the bottom continuously grow out onto the ground. I heard that cutting tomato plants back is bad, but I find myself constantly restaking and tying up the limbs. Any ideas?
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Answer by Connie G
No, you don’t HAVE to cut back tomatoes but in your case you seem to have an UeberRoma that really wants to grow and has no place to go.
If you are going to cut back your tomatoes, why not set the cuttings in water so that you can grow more plants? Tomatoes will grow roots rather fast (4-10 days) and you will have an identical plant to what you cut off.
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pruning might produce bigger fruit but you get less fruit overall.
but to ghet big fruit you could just cut off some of the tomatoes which is kind of stupid yes?
only to someone who fails to understand where a plant gets it’s energy from!!
sounds like bollocks.
Where does a plant get it’s energy from?
Only one place, the sun (light), you can prove this by putting a plant in a totally dark place, I guarantee you it will die.
Another way to make it die is to cut all the fucking green bits off because the light is converted to energy by the green bits.
The green bits to *not* take energy form the plant they *give* energy to the plant!!!
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lol @ suckas
Nice quick video SUKKA! LOL
Thanks for posting this. The end made me laugh.
Any1 hue buys tomato seeds in bulk have been bumped. A little root gel on those suckers and straight into pots keep 1 mother plant to keep them coming through the summer. Hope this helps 😉
Makes sense.
I read that its good to take the leaves off the tomato plants (when they mature) and take branches off that don’t have flowers.Because it takes the “energy” of the plant. What do you think about that?
@amcmillan2008 Nice. Glad to help.
Word. Appreciate.
Thanks, You gave the best explanation of this I’ve seen on Youtube. thanks again
Damned. I know that now. Will do next time.
You can plant the suckers. Tomatoes are like vines and will root wherever they touch the ground.
Nice experiment. Someone told me that you can root and replant the suckers. That might be worth experimenting with as well.
Apparently you can root the suckers and make new plants. Need to try that next time.
I am doing an experiment at the moment to see if there is any value in pruning tomatoes and, so far, the pruned tomatoes are putting out long tomato trusses with loads of fruit while the unpruned plants have got huge but have only put out small bunches of flowers. You can see on my last video if you are interested. The plants have grown a lot since the video but the fruit situation is still the same. I am doing an update this weekend.
Best Wishes, Brendan.
I’ll have to remember that next time I’m out in the garden. Thanks
Went out to my garden plot this morning and pruned my large cherry tomato plant. Amazing how good it looks now.
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Haha, I did. I think I went TOO far! No, I definitely went too far. But I’m gonna be away on vacation this week, so I’m sure they’ll recover a bit by then. I’ve abused them far worse earlier in the season.
stick that sucker in some soil, and water. can’t beat free plants.
Well get on it.
Thanks.
Try trellising. Put a trellis (similar to a clothes line (GI wire is great)) above your plants then train your tomato plants to grow on them. Tie the stems to the trellis if you have to.
..as my father the nurseryman used to say, “I never regretted pruning anything.”
sure, cut them back. I wouldn’t get carried away though. How about just pinching the tips? I would cut off less than a third.
Have you ever thought of useing a cage for them? Some people have good success with caging the ‘mater plants.
cage ’em….