Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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May 9, 2019 | #16 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: wales uk
Posts: 236
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Starting them in April/May is unheard of where I am. People would laugh at you for starting them that late. |
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May 9, 2019 | #17 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: El Lago, Texas
Posts: 1,100
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Pantyhose hammocks
I was going to say the exact same thing. Somewhere I have pictures.....
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May 9, 2019 | #18 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2012
Location: massachusetts
Posts: 1,710
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May 10, 2019 | #19 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Saylorsburg, PA
Posts: 261
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The only time I remove tomatoes from a truss is to enjoy fried green tomatoes early in the season. If I have a truss of 4 to 6 potentially large ones I remove 1-2 of the less good looking ones. This provides us with the green we love and the rest usually ripen to a nice size. But normally I leave them. I think it’s a personal choice as mentioned above. If you are making sauce then what difference does it make if you have 4 large or 6 slightly smaller? If you want slicers then it makes sense to remove one or two to encourage a larger size.
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May 10, 2019 | #20 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Upstate Ny Zone 5b
Posts: 29
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For the home gardener no reason to. For sales uniform tomato sells best so with big Beef for example I prune truss to 4 to avoid the smaller tomatoes.
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May 10, 2019 | #21 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b
Posts: 1,685
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Snitching one here and there from clusters doesn't see to bother the plants one bit. Yesterday one of the local groceries wanted $1.69 lb for green tomatoes. I just smiled, knowing sooner or later I'll have some for free. I can wait. |
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May 10, 2019 | #22 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Jax, FL - 9A
Posts: 172
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Thanks for the replies everyone.
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May 11, 2019 | #23 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: OH 6a
Posts: 592
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Actually I does do it when I want larger fruits, but that's only because I want to show it off in "The very large tomato thread".
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May 11, 2019 | #24 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Czech republic
Posts: 2,524
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I have one negative experience with leaving all the flowers on the first vijan. Six normal flowers and one multifloora were on the first inflorescence on Brutus tomato. I am multifloora pruned, others stayed. Finally, I did not harvest anywhat tomato from the whole plant. The roots could not deliver enough calcium in one for so many tomatoes and all ended up with BER. Since then I limit the number of flowers in such large tomatoes.
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