Pinching Out Tomato Growing Tips

Updated on May 7, 2013 By Tomato Guy 12 Comments

Pinching out the growing tips of tomato plants after they have grown the required amount of trusses. Also, taking cuttings from side shoots and a quick look …
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12 Comments

  1. wwwukbboyinfo May 7, 2013

    Why do you remove the side shoots? Woudlnt’ the side shoots also produce tomatos? So you’d get more if you left them? This is my frist year growing anything, but it seems with chillis you get more if you make you plant as bushy as you can. Different with tomatos? Why? Thanks and sorry for my beginner quesiton.

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  3. Aristotle Dreher May 7, 2013

    You say tomato, I say tomato.

  4. Linda Casey May 7, 2013

    See comment to Cyndi Cesare

  5. Linda Casey May 7, 2013

    See comment to Cyndi Cesare

  6. Linda Casey May 7, 2013

    A tomato plant should grow on one long, thick, main stem. From that stem, side shoots with leaves will appear and later produce flowers which eventually turn into tomatoes. A ‘sucker’ is a shoot growing at the joint between the main stem and this side shoot. If you don’t remove it, it will zap too much energy from the plant giving you less plump tomatoes. There are other videos that show this close up so you won’t be confused. Hope this helps.

  7. Cyndi Cesare May 7, 2013

    i need hand on experience to know what shoot and off shoot I’m -uckin with……everyone makes it so easy to understand these people with british (on top of it all ) accents……I’m sorry if i sound a bit confused, but this is the difference between a good teacher and an ordainary teacher……..thank you

  8. Cyndi Cesare May 7, 2013

    What ALways BAFFLES me is what green shoot you”re choosing!! I’m lost like Alice in Wonderland….Perhaps I need some good LSD to find those branches/shoots you speak of……

  9. mrjrm007 May 7, 2013

    WHY are you doing these things? What are the benefits?

  10. MyDadWorksAtMarcs May 7, 2013

    wow that’s a lot of buds you got there.

  11. Gladys Foster May 7, 2013

    Good video, but you’re not telling us why you’re removing the branches.

  12. HoschtonBoy May 7, 2013

    Thank you, very helpful tips and information.

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