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[Alia Tsang <alia@dietrick.org>]

This was discussed on a garden show I listen to recently. Supposedly it
will reduce the number of fruit you get, but the ones produced will be
bigger and will mature faster. The guy on the show said that it's helpful
in places with a shorter growing season, but here in California's Central
Valley it just reduces yields.

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:22 AM, tanya <tanyagarden@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:05 PM, David Muhl <dmuhl65@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > ...
> > One farmer I worked with in Colorado would pinch the shoots on his
> > unprotected field grown plants near the end of the growing season.  This
> I
> > was told would cause the plant put all of its energy into "finishing" the
> > tomatoes that were already getting close, rather than putting on
> additional
> > leaves, or new flowers that wouldn't have time to produce decent fruits
> > before the first frost arrived.
> >
> >
>
>
> > >>
> >
>
> I asked tomato experts about that a couple years ago, because it's been
> part of tomato folklore for a long time. They said pinching the foliage
> does not make any sense at the end of the season, because the fruits need
> all the sugars (that the leaves produce by photosynthesis). Instead, to
> signal to the plant that it's "done" producing new fruits, they take a
> shovel and cut a circle around the plant, a foot or so out, to cut the
> feeder roots._
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