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Given tomato plants. When is it too late to pinch out?
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BaconandEggs
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in Gardening
Hi,
Been given some fairly large tomato plants. The are some shoots that i would have nipped off before now. In fact there is one shoot off a shoot if you know what I mean?
My question is - when is it too late to remove these?
Once they are a certain size or before they have flowers?
Before they affect the growing angle of the main shoot?
Been given some fairly large tomato plants. The are some shoots that i would have nipped off before now. In fact there is one shoot off a shoot if you know what I mean?
My question is - when is it too late to remove these?
Once they are a certain size or before they have flowers?
Before they affect the growing angle of the main shoot?
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what variety are they?0
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Ailsa Craig0
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Personally I'd just remove all the side shoots to give whats left a proper chance at producing good size toms..#6 of the SKI-ers Club :j
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke0 -
Personally I'd just remove all the side shoots to give whats left a proper chance at producing good size toms..Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0
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Even if they are starting to produce flowers?
Seems so brutal.0 -
BaconandEggs wrote: »Even if they are starting to produce flowers?
Seems so brutal.
Take them off, put them in a glass of water on the windowsill until they root, then pot them up. Free plants.If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.0 -
mrbadexample wrote: »Take them off, put them in a glass of water on the windowsill until they root, then pot them up. Free plants.
I've done this. Hope they survive. First year growing my own - so it's all new!0
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