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  • From: georg parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] To Pinch or not to Pinch
  • Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:08:09 +0200

Hi Jason,
to my experience it depends on the climatic situation. If it is warm long enough, dont bother (unless you wanna have an easy harvest rather than digging for your fruit trough heaps fof leaves). If you have short summers, the plant puts an annecessary amount of energy into all these shoots and green fruits, that it will not be able to ripen.

I find it best to keep the first fat sideshoot - it almost looks like a forking, usually about 30 to 70 cm up the stem. I have a trellies and hang down string, that I attach to the two shoots per plant, and wind them around it. Hope this makes sense.



Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Georg Parlow
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Am 24.06.2013 um 18:15 schrieb Jason Gerhardt:

I'm curious to get a sampling of perspectives about pinching back
side-shoots on tomatoes. I'm running a variety trial this year (for my own
interests) and was in the crop yesterday really wondering about the
side-shoot pinching practice. I learned this method a decade ago from a
mentor and have been practicing it, perhaps blindly, ever since. Since I
have three or so plants from each variety I think I will pinch some and not
on others, and practice that good ole observation science.

So what say you epic gardeners of this list? To pinch or not to pinch?

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Jason Gerhardt

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Boulder, CO 80306
720-496-9744
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  • Re: [permaculture] To Pinch or not to Pinch, georg parlow, 07/05/2013

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