Tomato pruning is all about just managing the size of the plant. Here is how I prune my tomato plants with several tips to help you prune your tomato plants.
0:00 Tomato Pruning Made Easy Introduction
1:09 You Only Prune to Manage Plant Size
1:50 What’s a Sucker – What’s a Production Stem
3:43 All Tomatoes Start as a Single Stem – Single Stem Pruning
4:08 How Do You Get More Tomatoes?
5:00 The Beginning of Double Stem Pruning – Example
6:50 How a Tomato Wants to Sprawl, Grow, & Root Naturally
9:36 When to Start Pruning & Removing Leaves & Suckers
10:42 Caution – Single Stem Pruning Limits Fruit Quantity
11:28 Why You Might Choose Singe Stem Pruning – More Plants!
12:28 Close Up of Sucker Removal
13:11 Early Decisions for Creating a Double Stem Tomato Plant
13:40 Older Plant – Double/Triple Stem Pruning Example
15:30 Quick Example of Topping a ‘Sucker’ For More Fruit
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2 Comments
I understand it’s controlling size, but should one maybe limit the suckers on a container variety? I’m growing a window-box cherry tomato variety in a GreenStalk (first year and thank you for the coupon code!). They seem to be healthy, growing upright naturally verses growing outward. Thanks!
What kind of string are you using to tie up? Mine is so skinny, I feel like it’s going to cut into my plant. I haven’t seen that size of jute.