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23 Comments
Thank you! I've always wondered about this
This is a long shot but…bought bare root Strawberries from MIgardener this spring. Quickly forgot the name. Checked site, not in recent purchases.” Small fruits.
Seems to be everbearing. Currently in planters. BEST STRAWBERRIES EVER. Any guess to what they could be, how best to overwinter? 🙂
I bought all sorts of different squash varieties from you. I planted 2 of each. (Chaos gardening at it's finest!😂) I have lots of fruit set! Your seeds have done very well for me. Thank you!
I’ve never removed them before but I will this year around mid to late September to allow the ones growing to grab the energy!
Never have removed the blossoms. But this is my first year growing in Michigan. The plants are healthy, but have been getting stressed in with the afternoon sun. Half are in a raised bed and the rest are in grow bags in the garden and a couple on the back deck in big pots. So far, the fruits are still small.
you remove flowers after a certain date because you know they will never finish, its a waste of energy that the plant should be focusing on ripening the fruit. this also happens along with stressors of weather towards the end of the season.
ive grown for about 14 years. i never removed at first and ended up with a lot of unfinished toms( and no you could not even ripen them off plant after picking).
once I started removing flowers after a certain date, i ended up with more finished and ripened toms. its not quantity you want, its quality.
an unripened tom is exactly that unripened tom and of no use other than for the compost
i also finish the growing and move onto the next planting ( succession) when you cannot realistically get any more suitable toms..
I prefer to wait for that first batch of fruits to ripen and pluck, then I limb it to the next stage of fruits. Yes they get very tall when doing that, but they also get more robust flavors and I have a hard time bringing them in cause I can't stop eating them, there just so good to eat right then. My wife at the time and kid's would eat them also when they would get off work. That's how good they were. Plus I only watered them when the sun was going down. I experimented morning watering and mid day. They never got that good flavor like the one's I only watered in the evening.
I only buy seeds from you and have always had success with them. My wife and I plan on buying more here soon. We purchased some yellow wonder strawberries from you and they all came out great. I never had yellow wonders before and they were delicious 👍.
Great info, especially about trimming the tops off in the fall. We just took a lot of time picking off the blooms.
5:44 you mean self-pollinate?
I planted alot of summer plants for the fall. I call it my "El Niño gamble."
The only other time I consistently remove flowers, is when I am cutting off a growing tip to create a new plant.
Not sure if it's helpful or not but since I know that most plants, when under extreme stress (as a cutting would be) will desperately attempt to "reproduce" if it can and dedicate a lot of energy (energy I would rather have spent toward establishing roots and growing leaves) to that purpose.
I've never removed blossoms or even thought of it. I figured stress sometimes makes them drop flowers, so I think that is enough tomato loss.
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1:07 Tomatoes are a perrenial in zone 10-12. (At least the navive species, but maybe all)
I am a competitive giant tomato and giant veggie grower chasing to set records. Pruning yes does make bigger tomatoes but there are many factors….quality seed for start. I prune suckers and double vine up a fence panel. All flowers except the megablooms are pruned off. I then select the best megabloom tomato and grow just that one per plant. When plant reaches 3 to 4 feet high I terminate the main vine growth tip. Then all the plant's energy gets focused into growing the one giant tomato.
I have never removed blossoms. I usually plant indeterminate, and have sometimes cut off the top as fall approaches. Thank you, excellent advice 😊
I believe if Apples are grown enough to make apples, then they need to do that without an Adam hand ?
I believe it makes them stronger at the end ?
How are you keeping your tomato varieties from cross pollinating?
Excellent point about being either annual or perennial to do with flower removal.
Yesterday I cut all the flowers off my strawberries as some animal is removing the fruits and leaving them in the path … if I'm not going to able to eat them then the plants might as well send out runners for more plants. I bought 30 strawberry plants in the spring and maybe 8-10 have survived => brutal growing this year.
Thank for sharing. I’ve always wondered about this
Matthew 11:28-29 KJV Bible
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
I used to do this on peppers.