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What to do with my 223 cm tall Black Cherry?
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What to do with my 223 cm tall Black Cherry?


The back story: last year i wasn’t very successful with my tomatoes for various reasons and i got the first ones in mid August instead of June. So i thought it was a great idea to simply start with it all two months earlier… I germinated the seeds in mid January. I had a grow light too. Three months later i have a 223 cm indoor Black Cherry and another two of about 190 cm 🙈 (only the plants without the pots). They have a few flower trusses and a few small fruit now. I’ve started hardening them and move them outside when the weather allows. So I’m in North Germany and you can usually move them outside in mid May (possibly around 12C next week). One month to go and they’re growing at about 3-5 cm per day. No fertilizer.

So my question: what to do now as it’s sort of becoming impossible to handle them 😅. Any advice?

by AuroraStarM

7 Comments

  1. Mou_aresei

    You can twist the stem into a corkscrew shape, so it goes round and round. You can use a circular growing cage for that.

  2. coloradoautoflowers

    Bury that stem horizontally. Hope you don’t get another frost, maybe cover it with a low tunnel or a frost blanket.

  3. ApprehensiveSign80

    Give it some proper light so it stops stretching. Why’d you take it away from the grow light?

  4. palpatineforever

    light, a lot more light! poor thing.

  5. ive014

    You can even cut the top, about 15-20 cm and root it in water, so you’ll have a whole new small plant that will put new flowers fast. And your old plant will put out new suckers anyway.

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