Sometimes you have to use whatever you have available to cover your tomato plants from frost when you are on a budget. Dog food bags done the trick this time.
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Question by perryinjax: What is a suckulant on a tomato plant?
Someone tells me I need to pull the suckulants off my tomato plants and transplant them or they will kill the tomato plant? I dont understand….she says there is little offshoots that stick out from between the limbs and will make new toamto plants. Is there such a thing that is called suckulants or sucker leaves that you must pick off or they will suck the life outta your tomato plant?
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Answer by gardenerswv
Removing the suckers, called suckering, encourages earlier, larger tomatoes, and it keeps the number of fruits low in relation to foliage, which improves the flavor of the fruits.
Suckering is the process of removing the side shoots that grow from the node where a leaf attaches to the tomato vine. There are many different techniques. One method is to allow three suckers to develop into strong stems. Then keep pinching new suckers that form to encourage the plant to put its energy into fruit production.
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Good idea. I reuse my chicken feed bags for different things. Need about a week with no rain so I can till the garden.
That’s a Awesome Idea!!! Thanks for sharing, we also have plenty of those dog food bags. When i was living in MA, i used 1 gal water jugs with water in it to simulate wallowaters. It seemed to work. Your tomato plants are pretty big, how long have they been in the ground for?
The little branches that grow out between the limbs are called suckers. If you pinch them off it encourages your plant to put more energy into the fruit instead of the leaves. No need to transplant them just pinch them off and throw them away. They do not suck the life out of the plant but they do reduce the quantity and size of the tomatoes.
Succulents are a variety of plant that retains water ( cactus, aloe, etc ) they are fleshy plants that do not require as much watering because they retain it.
Sucker growth is little branches that form on a parent plant and suck out nutrition, etc. They are not necessary to the plant and are best removed for good performance.
Here is a link to an article on tomatoes and their sucker growth. Scroll down to the part about pruning for info on suckers and removing them.
http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages/g00031.asp