Timestamps. Learn how to bottom prune tomato plants for airflow. Learn how to single, double, and triple stem prune tomato plants. Basic tomato staking and tomato ‘sucker’ identification.
45:43 TAKE the ‘TOMATO SUCKER ID’ TEST – Can You ID and Pass?
0:00 Tomato Pruning Intro & Overview
1:52 Tomato ‘Sucker’ vs Production Stems
2:39 Indeterminate Tomatoes Get Staked and Pruned
3:31 Cherry Tomatoes and ‘Suckers’
4:40 Identifying & Removing Tomato ‘Suckers’
7:14 Why Do We Prune? or Keep or Remove ‘Suckers’?
10:09 Single, Double, & Triple Stem Pruning Basics
15:29 Bottom Leaf Pruning
17:55 Basic Multi Stem Pruning
24:23 (Real Time) Complete Tomato Plant Pruning
31:35 Tomato Leaf Disease Overview
32:35 Example 1 Before and After Pruning
34:10 Example 2 Before and After Pruning
36:11 Cherry Tomato Pruning Overview
37:57 Cherry Tomato Cattle Panel Trellising
40:29 Before & After Cherry Tomato Pruning and Cattle Panel Weave
42:54 Supplies for Tomato Staking
45:43 TAKE the ‘SUCKER ID’ TEST – Can You ID and Pass?
48:25 Anti-fungal Spraying
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Oh boy. came in from the garden and was pruning my tomatoes.
Thank you for your video. Really need this now, as I have my toms to do 😅
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My indeterminent tomato plants are monsters! They are producing a lot of fruit, and are still going. I've already started harvesting tomatoes. Next year, I am going to stick to determinents. My Grand Marsahall are loaded with tomatoes and all of them a good size. I am also growing Ace-55. They have just started flowering andf setting fruit. Next year, I want to try Jolene and Skyway tomato varieties. I just added chickens to my garden, five hens, three Rhode Island Red, and two Speckled Sussex.
Let the suckers grow!😂 I'm realizing I need cattle panel rods in my life because the tomatoes need training 🍅
lol, I was just pruning my tomatoes this morning!
Great instructions…. Thank you!
Hi Gary! I am so glad you did this video today! I had a couple of tomato questions this morning and hadn't gotten around to doing any research, but then here you are, of course, with all the answers! Hooray for Gary P!
It was especially helpful when you went up the stem and took off the suckers. You showed very clearly what every part of the plant is. That's where I was confused this morning.
I picked a peck of ole ugly aggravating delishous heirlooms today,Im not boasting Im simply thankful that my heirlooms haven't up and died like so many I've had.
I never knew you can keep some of the suckers! Awesome info. I just bought your first book while watching your video
Gary, what do you use for antifungal? Is H2O2 used to treat fungus or is it just a preventive spray.
Great informative video Gary. Have you seen where a main stem splits in two? I have one but it's not a sucker.
I single stem however I will let two or three suckers grow until they set flowers then I'll remove the growth tip so it won't grow any longer.
I lean more towards more aggressive pruning techniques. Just makes dealing with the plant so much easier. You can make up some of the production losses by planting more plants closer together. There’s no right or wrong way though. Everyone has different growing conditions and needs in their garden. Great tutorial for those that are new to this.
My sungolds always seem to split off into two main stems in a perfect Y-fork and I'm always too afraid to cut one side and basically dead-head the plant.
Is that a beautiful Comfrey plant in the background?
Good job
Everyday I go out to the garden there seems to be a sucker to prune! I need to use the hydrogen peroxide mix. Rain all day today and more tomorrow. I plan on keeping on top of fungus this year. Thank you for all the knowledge Gary!
That was a nice, thorough tomato pruning video. I wish I'd seen this last spring/summer when I was trying to make sense of what I was hearing about pruning. I came to my own conclusion that removing a lot of suckers would quite significantly reduced production so I do the chaos method for size and airflow management primarily. I use heavy gauge square tomato cages and then zip tie on additional vertical metal supports as the plants get taller. Seems to work fine. Question: I know that there are a number of reasons for blossom drop, but someone said it could be caused by having too many tomatoes already on the plant at one time? Is that's true, I should remove more suckers than I do if so. The current excessive hot temperatures and humidity are playing at least a part in blossom drop now, however. I just jerry-rigged a shade cloth set up from burlap to help the situation. Anyway, thanks in advance for an answer!
Exactly what I needed.
A nice long video just about pruning tomatoes .
Showing us one by one step by step,
And telling me over & over & over again .
Until I finally got it.
Now I understand what to do .
I even passed your test 😊
You taught me something new while trimming each plant.
What an amazing teacher you are
Thank you.
I must of missed you saying anything about this.
I only have 4' Bamboo steaks.
What do I do once they reach 4'.
If I cut the tops off the main stem , will that stop it growing upwards ?
Thanks again Gary for another fantastic video.
Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
What a great video! Well done. I learned so much! Thank you! Searching now for your zucchini video.
Such a better video than most that just do single stem. 🌺🌸❤️ Thanks so much.