tom thumb hanging tomatoes

Ellieduval

I've grown some Tom Thumb hanging tomatoes from seed both red and yellow varieties.
They are 5 inches tall now,have several sets of leaves and are in a 3 inch pot.
They are happily growing in my conservatory at the moment and look realy healthy.
Now that they are getting several sets of leaves do they need nipped out like other varieties of tomatoes or since they are to go into hanging baskets do you allow them to go bushy.
Also any tips on growing tomatoes in hanging baskets would be appreciated.
Thankyou.

Farway

Just leave them to sort themselves out, they are naturally bushy

I grow Baconi Yellow in wall baskets, two per basket. They just get on with it and only require foos & water as & when needed.

Very easy to grow as I assume TT are, but stand to be corrected as I've not grown them

Ellieduval

I've not grown them before either Farway.
I just thought they would make a "tasty" change from flowers 

Farway

Ellieduval said:

I've not grown them before either Farway.
I just thought they would make a "tasty" change from flowers 

Good idea, I'm trying dwarf French Beans in my usual flower baskets this year

Silvertabby

As Farway says, don't nip them out.  Start to feed once they are in flower and, apart from hardening off, don't put them outside until all danger of frost has passed.  Could be as late as early June.

To harden them off (ie, get them acclimatised to the great outdoors) pop them outside on nice days but bring them back in at night. No earlier than mid May (unless you live in a real balmy part of the Country!) 

And don't dead head them !  Apologies if this is granny's eggs, but  I once took some surplus tomato plants into work.  Most of my colleagues were thrilled with their crops, apart from one lady who didn't get a single fruit.  She couldn't understand it - she'd nurtured them, watered, them fed them, and .... dead headed them. 

twopenny

Thanks for the laugh Silvertabby. Hillarious.

I've grown tomatoes of all sorts and colours and I don't pinch them out. I still get tomatoes and more than I can eat and a long season. But it's just for me. If you want big fruits pinch out. Guess that won't apply to TomThumb.