Just like the post says. I've made a few previous posts bragging about my garden on my balcony. Long story short it's about 10 tomato plants (6x Florida 97's, 4 heirloom) and 5 jalapenos. I started them 2nd or 3rd week of January and they are… exploding.
It was easy at first to just trim the suckers on the weekend, but now trimming has become an every other day activity. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy it, but I think I've lost sight of what to cut, what to leave, how to structure the leaders…it's quickly turning into a mess.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated…
by Irish_Astronaut
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Honestly, I’ve worked on different farms and everyone has a slightly different method for tomatoes and they all believe it is the one and only way.
Tomatoes have a strong drive to live and they will stop at nothing to keep trying to produce. For non-production purposes it is not the end of the world to miss a sucker or three; your plant will grow bushy rather than tall and you could have many small tomatoes rather than less but bigger ones.
Since tomatoes like air flow and can get leaf diseases rather easily I’d prioritize pruning the suckers that could grow bushy and into the other plants, which would reduce air flow and increase susceptibility to disease transference if one of your plants get sick.
Don’t trim the heirlooms! So that’ll cut down on work