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  • From: <sunnfarm AT netscape.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pruning determinate tomatoes
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:16:52 -0800

On determinate tomatoes we only prune all suckers up to the first fruit cluster. Less vigorous varieties  we leave one sucker below the first fruit cluster.
I don't know what made them go weird. I'm a firm believer in hot water treating all my seeds before planting to help reduce weird isms like that... Bob.

--- cmillsap1 AT yahoo.com wrote:

From: Curtis Millsap <cmillsap1 AT yahoo.com>
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Market-farming] pruning determinate tomatoes
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:41:41 -0800 (PST)

I grew Celebrity tomatoes in the greenhouse last year, and began pruning them as I would other tomatoes (arbason, early girl, etc.), however I got some very strange looking vines.  Mostly I got vines that went nuts at the top, producing tons of sprouts and leaves, and eventually lots of small fruit.  I also had a lot of vines which seemed to stop growing upward, and so they had very few fruit.   I realize that the determinates are a different beast than the indet. , but I've never seen a reference to pruning them dramatically differently.  How do you all prune your indeterminates?  It is also possible that these problems were more related to the extremely early and prolonged heat we had last season, and not as much the pruning.   Ideas or input?
Thanks,
Curtis
 
Curtis and Sarah Millsap
Millsap Farm
Springfield MO
C 839-0847
www.millsapfarms.wordpress.com


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