In today’s 2 minute garden tip, I share a common mistake new tomato growers often make growing tomatoes. New gardeners sometimes fail to discern between indeterminate tomato varieties and determinate tomato varieties. These two tomato types grow very differently, and treating them the same can have catastrophic consequences. Don’t make this critical mistake growing tomatoes!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Determinate VS Indeterminate Tomatoes
0:34 Pruning Indeterminate Tomatoes
1:43 Pruning Determinate Tomatoes
3:45 Dwarf Tomato Project Tomatoes
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23 Comments
Growing Sun Gold cherry tomatoes for the first time this year and they are the largest transplants I’ve ever had after 6 weeks of growing indoors. Can’t wait to try them. I also got my first ever fig tree, a Chicago hardy, and I’m probably going to grow it in a container but was wondering if I should leave it bushy or prune it to 1 stem in the winter?
I'm so glad you mentioned dwarf tomatoes.
Man, I have TOTALLY not been paying attention to that! Fortunately, I’m behind on my sucker pruning, anyway!
Thank you for the information 🙏 ❤😊
Is there a way to tell them apart when they're about a foot tall?
All my seedlings went bottoms up in a wind storm that turned my little green house over. I lost a lot of plants and those that made it (maybe 20 out of 64) no longer have labels.
I had both kinds planted.
How far apart did you space your dwarf tomato varieties? I am about to transplant mine to my garden, but unsure how much space you recommend!
good to know thanks
What a great video. I have never been taught this before. Thank you.
Umm can we get a tour of your garden 😊😊
Hey I'm trying something new this year and wanted your opinion or input if you've tried it. On a few of my plants this year I'm letting most of the suckers grow until they form their first flower cluster then topping the sucker after the first cluster. Seems like it could be a good way to increase yield without having the plant become unmanageable. Was curious if you've ever tried this and if so how well it went.
Thank you for making that clear in a quick tutorial. 😊
Any tips for blight?
Excellent. Thank you!
You mentioned on the determinate tomatoes that you should remove or could remove the lower branches. Does that also include the suckers that are coming off at these lower branches below the first flower cluster?
This guy can't get enough of himself creating more and more youtube channels hoping inexperienced idiot gardeners will actually listen to him
Thank you! I didn’t know about pruning differently for my determinate and indeterminate tomatoes!
What if we already started suckering the determinate varieties?
THX- growing Celebrity which are determinate- so THANKS you for saving my harvest bc I sure was gonna prune them!!
Thank you! Very good..leaning more everytime you put out a video..😊
So true. I hardly got any tomatoes last year because I pruned my bush tomatoes. This year, I only take off the yellow leaves or stems.
what if you lost the label and no longer know whetehe r the tomato is determinate or indedetermineat/
Thank you. Did not realize.
I did exactly that last year. I didn’t have tags in some of my seedlings so I treated some of them as indeterminate plants and did not get one bloom. 😢