How to Prune or "Sucker" Tomato Plants

a review of the basic tomato plant pruning or "suckering" principles from our first KZbin video about tomatoes: • How to String & Sucker...
For more, check out our other KZbin videos about tomatoes:
Indeterminate, Determinate & Semi-Determinate: • Tomatoes: Indeterminat...
Doubling Your Yield with Two Main Stems: • Tomatoes - Doubling Yo...
Tomato Q&A: • How to String & Sucker...
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[@1111tiffo]

Thank you for this great e plantation on suckering. I learned something new!!!

[@kayleemccoy3253]

Thank you so much! Your video was very helpful. I have just started my very first tomato plant and heard that you need to prune the suckers and watched a few videos where they show them pruning the suckers but you are the first to actually show up close where the sucker is. I wanted to make sure I was not going to accidentally prune a main stem off and I am confident now that I found your video! Thank you

[@FrontPorchFarm]

I would suggest the shade cloth, we've found that it not only lowers the temperature, but the tomatoes seem to start ripening more quickly, at least in our climate...which is very different then Phoenix! And thank you, I'm feeling better and I'll tell you that even though gardening can be difficult at times, I'd much rather be gardening!

[@FrontPorchFarm]

I'm not sure if you mean others besides this one, or even more than our six others: Transplanting tomato starts; Tomato starts-second transplanting; How to string and sucker tomatoes; Tomatoes: indeterminate, determinate...; Tomatoes: doubling your yield with 2 or more stems and Tomato Q & A. Hope this helps, and thank you!

[@FrontPorchFarm]

You're welcome! We have several you tube videos on growing tomatoes as well as making soil blocks and transplanting, and putting up hay in round bails. We are located in NW WA state, near the Canadian border, so we have a short growing season with hot summers. Our instructions are mostly about extending the growing season. Hope this is helpful. You can find us on our .net site for frontporchfarm

[@justgivemethetruth]

In a setup like this it would almost seem to make sense to plant a few plants, and then as they grow taller pull the suckers and clone them so you have plants constantly coming in after the first plants. I don't pull the suckers because I just the plants grow out, but I do pull a sucker now and then to grow a new plant from too keep the good plants going.

[@drmikeyg]

I hope your ankle is getting better.Darn those cows,LOL.Thank you for the great vids,All my tomato plants are looking good. Might be 106 Deg. F here in the Phoenix area this week, I'm thinking of putting up some shade cloth tomorrow. Once again,thanks and get well soon. I still want your job!

[@707mrb]

I have enjoyed all of your videos and have given "Front Porch Farms" a shout out in my videos. Thanks and keep em' coming.

[@FrontPorchFarm]

In our short growing season, we plant all our tomatoes at one time because they produce earlier, and they keep producing the whole season. It does no good to plant later, we've tried it and not gotten much production, they need all the time to grow that we can give them.

[@ShannyCleaner]

Thanks

[@BryanKale777]

Thank you... any other video tips?

[@112jungle]

can you post more videos please