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I try to remove all suckers early but some elude me. Typically suckers are straight forward to identify. They grow from the axil, the point where a branch emerges from the stem. However, some just don't follow that pattern. How to identify those less obvious suckers?
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I try to remove all suckers early but some elude me. Typically suckers are straight forward to identify. They grow from the axil, the point where a branch emerges from the stem. However, some just don’t follow that pattern. How to identify those less obvious suckers?


I try to remove all suckers early but some elude me. Typically suckers are straight forward to identify. They grow from the axil, the point where a branch emerges from the stem. However, some just don’t follow that pattern. How to identify those less obvious suckers?

by abdul10000

4 Comments

  1. s_inks

    Those aren’t suckers, they’re vines. You can let them all grow or prune to one or two leaders.

  2. CitrusBelt

    When you miss some and they’ve gotten big, the one that doesn’t have a flower truss coming off the stem before the first pair of leaves would be the side-shoot (sucker).

  3. Cali_Yogurtfriend624

    Don’t worry about them. They bring more photosynthesis into the plany & roots. 🙂

  4. detkikka

    Once a sucker is past pinching size it will have a subtle mounded shoulder or a hump where they come out of the stem.

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