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gardeningchannel.com

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Apr 30, 2018 . Jon Traunfeld, director of the Home and Garden Information Center, prunes a tomato plant by removing it's suckers.For more about tomatoes, read our vegetable...

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tomatobible.com

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thespruce.com

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Jul 21, 2020 . How and When to Prune Tomato Suckers . The earlier you prune the tomato suckers, the easier it is.   Small leaves and two-to-four-inch stems can be snapped off with your bare hands. Stems thicker than a pencil should be cut out with sharp pruning shears to avoid damaging the plant.

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May 25, 2019 . Pros & Cons of removing suckers on indeterminate tomatoes. Why should you prune tomato plants?Become a better gardener, Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/Gar...

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gardeningknowhow.com

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Jul 23, 2021 . The short answer to this is a tomato sucker is a smallish shoot that grows out of the joint where a branch on the tomato plant meets a stem. These small shoots will grow into a full sized branch if left alone, which results in a bushier, more sprawling tomato plant. Because of this, many people like to remove tomato suckers from the tomato plant.

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laidbackgardener.blog

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Jul 08, 2017 . A sucker is, by definition, a stem that never produces either flowers or fruits. Logically, you’d want to remove suckers from your tomatoes if they had any. The thing is, though, they don’t. Those green stems that start to form at leaf axils (see the photo above) are not suckers, they’re simply secondary stems.

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tendingmygarden.com

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May 16, 2014 . Since these tomatoes have a predetermined number of stems that grow and bear fruit, removing any suckers above the first flower cluster will only cause you to lessen the amount of fruit the plant produces. Indeterminate tomatoes are sometimes called vining tomatoes. They can easily grow 6 to 12 feet or more in a season.

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gardeningchannel.com

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Sep 09, 2020 . It involves tying your tomato plant to stakes to help remove the suckers. It’s best used to increase the airflow between your tomatoes and makes your plants grow neatly. To take advantage of this method begin by: Putting up 5ft strong, wooden stakes at each end of your tomato plant rows.

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sfgate.com

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Oct 28, 2020 . Pinch the sucker close to the stem to gently remove it, taking care not to damage the main stem of the plant. Propagating Tomatoes From Side Shoots Once you have removed a sucker, pinch off most ...

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urbanorganicgardener.com

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Jul 16, 2010 . sucker (like one you overlooked for a couple weeks) it works really well. It's cloning at its simplest 🙂 Just snip the sucker as long as you can, strip the bottom 2 or 3 leaf branches, and then put it in water like a cut flower. It will start to sprout roots along the stem in a few days, make sure to keep the water fresh!

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104homestead.com

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Feb 06, 2017 . How to Remove Tomato Suckers. If the sucker is young and tender, you can simply pinch it off with your thumb and forefinger. This method is called simple pruning. This is by far the best method since the plant heals quickly and therefore there is less risk of disease.

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sfgate.com

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Tip pruning stunts the growth of the sucker so it reaches no more than 2 or 3 inches long but still allows it produce leaves. Remove the very tip of each sucker once it's about an inch long.

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clemson.edu

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Jun 30, 2020 . I’m back here in the Chester Community Garden today and I want to talk a little bit about desuckering your tomato plant. If you look at a tomato plant, tomatoes have what are called compound leaves. So this entire thing right here is a leaf and every place a leaf joins a main stem, there will be a bud that will give rise to these suckers.

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epicgardening.com

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May 18, 2021 . How and when to prune tomato suckers. If you do have indeterminate tomato plants, here’s how you should go about pruning them. Start by pruning the tomato suckers when they are young and weak, rather than full grown and strong. Use your fingers instead of clippers, and grab the sucker towards the base.

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