My own methods to make tomatoes fruit big and fast quickly!
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:03 First Method to Force Bigger Faster Tomatoes
02:29 A Plant I used this Method on
03:23 Using the Growth Pattern of a Tomato to Your Advantage
05:17 Applying the First Method to Your Plants
06:09 Using Light and Air to Speed up Ripening
07:24 Preventing Sunscald/Sunburn on Ripening Tomatoes
08:14 A Mistake You Do Not Want to Make!
09:08 Advanced Pruning Technique to Boost Production Per Plant
10:10 How to Keep Plants from getting too Tall
11:36 Second Method to Force Bigger Faster Tomatoes
13:50 Third Method to Force Bigger Faster Tomatoes
15:37 Fourth Method to Force Bigger Faster Tomatoes
17:05 Fifth Method to Force Bigger Faster Tomatoes
19:07 How to Get Rid of Tomato Hornworms
19:31 What To Do if Your Plants have Blight
20:26 Final Thoughts and Announcements
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:03 First Method to Force Early Ripening of Tomatoes
02:29 A Plant I used this Method on
03:23 Using the Growth Pattern of a Tomato to Your Advantage
05:17 Applying the First Method to Your Plants
06:09 Using Light and Air to Speed up Ripening
07:24 Preventing Sunscald/Sunburn on Ripening Tomatoes
08:14 A Mistake You Do Not Want to Make!
09:08 Advanced Pruning Technique to Boost Production Per Plant
10:10 How to Keep Plants from getting too Tall
11:36 Second Method to Force Early Ripening of Tomatoes
13:50 Third Method to Force Early Ripening of Tomatoes
15:37 Fourth Method to Force Early Ripening of Tomatoes
17:05 Fifth Method to Force Early Ripening of Tomatoes
19:07 How to Get Rid of Tomato Hornworms
19:31 What To Do if Your Plants have Blight
20:26 Final Thoughts and Announcements
Thanks for the kind words and support 😁🐕❤
Do you have problems with birds want to eat your tomatoes
Thank you as always James for your great and timely videos. I follow almost all of your recommendations, and am working toward all those that I haven’t yet. I made your soil recipe this year and that in itself resulted in a huge difference! Squash is loving it! As is all else for the most part. My biggest need from you right now… come help me build vertical trellises for my tomatoes and squash (that’s doing really well growing vertically), and …. Take all our dang squirrels back with you. Please! The tomato plants will thank you and I’ll love you for it! Thanks again for all!
Timely video—thanks. I've got an indeterminate cherry tomato plant in a container, on my patio—and I haven't pruned anything—but will strategically do so tomorrow—as the plant is near the a/c unit and its branched out so much recently that now—when the a/c goes on, the poor branch really waves too much for my comfort.
I put ash on it
Uhhhh didn't you post this video like a month ago? 🤔
Do you provide tours of your garden??! I’m in NJ! 😊
I appreciate your enthusiasm and knowledge.
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James, any help for onion flies/moths? I tried onion starts for the first time this year.
I covered the starts with insect netting from day one, and the onion flies and moths decimated a large portion of my crop.
Since the plants were covered from day one, I believe the flie larvae was already in the compost that was used to make the soil. 😭😭😭
I'm using Mel's Mix. I want to try onions again soon, but I don't want the moths and flies to eradicate my hard work. Help. 😅😅😅
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I single stemmed my tomato plants one year and ended up with sun scald on most of them. Now I just cage them and don’t prune
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thanks JP
I love your videos, thank you!
I don't actually encourage that much pruning anymore, though. I do prune after a tomato has got 3-4 solid leaders going. Yeah, the fruit is slightly smaller, and perhaps take a couple of weeks longer, but you will get 2-3 times as much. I do top them all at the end of July, because there isn't time for them to ripen if they develop after that, in my area. Timing will vary, of course.
I sincerely encourage you to do a test. Try a bed that is minimally pruned, leaving multiple leaders, and one that is pruned like you normally do, and see how many tomatoes you get, in number and in pounds. I promise you, that severe pruning is a lot of work that just gets you a smaller harvest.
What do u do with some many tomatoes?
Bushy tomato plants are also a pain when it comes to killing tomato horn worms as well. Horn worms have an instinct to go for tomato plants they can hide in.
Love your channel Let it grow! Keep up the great work
Terrific video James. I had similar setup and results years ago planting 25 plants in 30 feet of row and grew 100 lbs total of several varieties. I just used twine and weaved it around the stems since I wasn't aware of those clips. Thanks
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Thank you, James! I pruned mine earlier last night, determinate. I think they thanked me. I like the theory of the tomato trellis, it works. Light and Air Flow is so important. Even here in Idaho I cover my Beef's with shade cloth, 40%, and it seems they like this. Excellent video. Miss the little guy so much ❤❤❤❤. Plus, I use Tomato Boom, it's made for local grow by Zamzow's. "Let it Grow"…thank you for thinking of me!
Never have a disease issue or pest issues with my tomato. Plenty of air circulation as I live on a lake and 80% of the time there is air movement.
How do you decide when to prune sun leaves? Not sure how much to leave for photosynthesis but it seems like you cut them out up pretty high.
Tell me how I know James grows bud without telling me he grows bud 😆