Gary Pilarchik: How to Prune Tomato Plants & Why Do It? (All the Steps for Single, Double, & Triple Stem Pruning)

Here are several example of how to bottom prune & single, double, or triple stem prune your tomato plants. Pruning tomato plants is done to manage plant diseases and plant size. You dont have to prune.

Early Season Tomato Care Tips for Tomato Growing Success (Pruning, Fertilizing, Mulching, Staking) https://youtu.be/q8P2fZAS6pE

0:00 Introduction to Pruning Tomato Plants
0:45 Example of an ‘Un’ Pruned Tomato Plant & Growth Habit
1:53 Single Stem Tomato Pruning & Bottom Pruning Full Example
4:54 Only Prune Indeterminate Tomatoes This Way
6:10 Double Stem Tomato Plant Pruning Full Example
9:30 Do I Pick Single Stem or Double Stem for My Tomato Plants?
10:02 Triple Stem Tomato Plant Pruning Full Example
13:38 Up Close Tomato ‘Sucker’ Identification and Removal
14:39 Basic Stem Tying & Water-Soluble Fertilizing after Pruning
15:41 A 2nd Example of Double Stem Pruning
17:45 Pruning Cherry Type Tomato Plant Example
20:15 Making Tomato Clones from ‘Suckers’
21:05 Example of Bottom Pruning & Picking ‘Suckers’ for Cloning
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