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Old July 16, 2011   #1
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Default Sungold pruning?

I did a search and came up with nothing. Should a vine like plant like Sungold F1 be pinched for bigger fruit? I am a first time grower here for this variety
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Old July 16, 2011   #2
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It should be very prolific and as far as I know a small fruit. Not sure how much bigger fruits would get if you pinched blossoms but you shoud have a lot of blossoms so maybe you can pinch some blooms off of part of the branchs and leave them on the others to see if there is a difference.

I am growing F1 for the first time this year. Mine are about the size of and shaped like a small egg.
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My sungold this year is extra spindly and doesn't have a lot of branches or trusses for how tall it is. I removed the suckers on the bottom couple feet of the plant and now kind of wish I hadn't because the fruits really aren't noticeably bigger. Last year my plant was a lot bushier and had a whole lot more tomatoes.

If it got to a point where it is overwhelmingly covered in shoots and you are satisfied with the size of the plant, I'd start trimming suckers. I did notice that the sungold I planted in my earthbox grew bigger tomatoes than the one planted in my wine barrel.
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My 3 tomatoes from my Sun Gold F1 plant are very early........All 3 were the size of a USA dime .........I hope that this plant will produce much bigger tomatoes in the very near future for me
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Old July 16, 2011   #5
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I am growing F1 for the first time this year. Mine are about the size of and shaped like a small egg.
I hope you mean a quail's egg. Larger than that, and it's not Sungold F1.
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Old July 16, 2011   #6
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My dad was visiting today and noticed an almost ripe sungold in my edge of the woods planting and it is small as well about dime sized or a little bigger but I attribute that to the 4-5 hours of sun and wet spring we had.

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[QUOTE=Gobig_or_Gohome_toms;224009]My dad was visiting today
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One factor that affects the size of sun gold is heat. Mine were much larger earlier in the year with many approaching the size of a superball. Now I'd say most are much smaller...the size of standard marble or even smaller. Of course, that is not unique to sungold...all the tomatoes are much smaller now, and extremely few and far between too.
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why do you want larger tomatoes? sun gold is a cherry its not going to be a patio sized tomato.

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Default Sungold pruning

Pruning won't make the tomato bigger than its genes tell it to be. Sungolds are always going to be very small. If you want larger cherry tomatoes then you are better off choosing a larger cherry variety.
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I have mine pruned and they are dime to quarter size. Tis the nature of the beast.
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