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Given tomato plants. When is it too late to pinch out?
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 -
Yes, I agree, take off all the ones that aren't supposed to be there, the plant will soon recover and start making growth where you want it.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 -
Even if they are starting to produce flowers?
Seems so brutal.
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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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