Let me know what you find out. I don’t prune at all unless the leaves are looking icky
_ArtyG_
Without seeing the rest I’d be apt to cutting at the red line.
It looks like it might be a sucker without seeing its leaves at the top. Looks a bit old now though if its a sucker. I normally cut them when they are still little.
Got a zoomed out photo?
Krickett72
I dont prune unless my plant looks sickly. My tomatoes outgrew it’s trellis and fell over the other side. Is still growing and is now dragging the ground on the other side. So its well over 10 ft.
MrsGita
I would do just the red
WhyYouNoLikeMeBro
Red is the sucker.
Carlpanzram1916
A little hard to see in the pic but red looks like the sucker. Basically when the plant grows, you have one branch that grows outward and just has leaves. And then, you have the sucker that grows out in between the branch and the main stem and that will have a tight cluster of leaves forming out of it, as opposed to the branch which has large, spaced out leaves. The sucker is what you want to prune if you’re trying to direct the plant upwards with a single leader.
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wormburner1980
Red
ZzLavergne
Red line
beatniknomad
Red line. Also, anything below the first fruits.
poop_destroyers
Don’t! There’s truly no point.
infamous_negotiator
Anything I chop off I always stick right back in soil and it reroots and voila more plants
Brandonification
The red cut is the one to make. With tomatoes, there are proximal(main branch) and distal(side branches) shoots. Then there are suckers. Suckers appear in the crevice of proximal and distal shoots. If you check the plant regularly, make sure you are pinching or cutting any shoots that appear between the main shoots.
fudge_cakeu
Since u only want 1 stem then the red one. Keep all lower leaves until the fruit is set. After a complete set, then prune all the lower leaves below the fruit and keep the upper leaves above the fruit. And don’t forget to get rid of all the suckers
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Let me know what you find out. I don’t prune at all unless the leaves are looking icky
Without seeing the rest I’d be apt to cutting at the red line.
It looks like it might be a sucker without seeing its leaves at the top. Looks a bit old now though if its a sucker. I normally cut them when they are still little.
Got a zoomed out photo?
I dont prune unless my plant looks sickly. My tomatoes outgrew it’s trellis and fell over the other side. Is still growing and is now dragging the ground on the other side. So its well over 10 ft.
I would do just the red
Red is the sucker.
A little hard to see in the pic but red looks like the sucker. Basically when the plant grows, you have one branch that grows outward and just has leaves. And then, you have the sucker that grows out in between the branch and the main stem and that will have a tight cluster of leaves forming out of it, as opposed to the branch which has large, spaced out leaves. The sucker is what you want to prune if you’re trying to direct the plant upwards with a single leader.
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Red
Red line
Red line. Also, anything below the first fruits.
Don’t! There’s truly no point.
Anything I chop off I always stick right back in soil and it reroots and voila more plants
The red cut is the one to make. With tomatoes, there are proximal(main branch) and distal(side branches) shoots. Then there are suckers. Suckers appear in the crevice of proximal and distal shoots. If you check the plant regularly, make sure you are pinching or cutting any shoots that appear between the main shoots.
Since u only want 1 stem then the red one. Keep all lower leaves until the fruit is set. After a complete set, then prune all the lower leaves below the fruit and keep the upper leaves above the fruit. And don’t forget to get rid of all the suckers
red