How to Prune Tomatoes After Hot Days

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Tip 1 - How to Prune Tomatoes After Hot Days | eHow

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jim and Liz Winkler | permalink

When pruning tomatoes after a hot day, prune off some of the dead leaves and stems, and water them thoroughly at night once they've had a chance to cool down. Maintain a tomato plant to increase fruit...

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Tip 2 - Pruning Tomatoes

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Revd Child | permalink

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Tip 3 - When Tomato Plants Stop Bearing Fruit, Can They Be Cut Back?

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Laurent Pretet | permalink

Tomato plants can be cut back any time, but there are better times than others. If the vines are heat-stressed or straggly, it makes sense to cut the vine back to promote a vigorous flush of healthy ...

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Tip 4 - How (and Why) I Prune My Tomatoes - You Grow Girl

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Olivier Blaise | permalink

How I prune my tomatoes is a popular question and while I was out doing that work yesterday evening, I figured it was high time that I address it here on t

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Tip 5 - How to Prune a Tomato

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by lenono | permalink

Here are six good reasons to prune tomatoes: To grow more flavorful tomatoes. To grow larger tomatoes. To grow more tomatoes over the length of a season. To keep plant leaves and fruits off the ground and away from pests, insect damage, and fungal disease. To keep plants smaller and more compact. To allow tomatoes on the plant at the end of the season to ripen before the first frost. Pruning a tomato means removing unneeded growth tips from the plant. These growing tips are sometimes called shoots or suckers. Growth tips are the new growth--the small leafy-bud growth--located in the "V" or crotch between two stems. Pruning or pinching away new growth allows a tomato plant to concentrate its energy on the development of fruit rather than new foliage. Plant sugars used to make new growth are instead used to concentrate flavor and grow larger, healthier tomatoes. Determinate and indeterminate tomatoes: Tomatoes can be divided into two growth habit categories: [...]

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Tip 6 - Pruning tomato plants for best tomato production

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Mark Saba | permalink

Learn how pruning tomato plants can maximize the number, size, and flavor of your tomatoes. How to pinch suckers. When to prune side stems and roots of tomato plants.
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