Tomatoes - fruit truss kinked

[workhorse]

A bit of advice please. I have quite a bit of fruit on my tomato trusses, to a point where some are so heavey, that they causing the main truss support branch to kink. Is this alright, or should I attempt to support them?

[TEB]

Yes you will need to support them, I find that twine or string is best as opposed to the plastic coated wire that you can get

[Maddie106]

I use old tights for all the tying up jobs in the garden!
Cut the legs off and then cut each leg into strips about 1/2 an inch wide.Put all the circles you get on your wrist like a bracelet and you can then easily make one cut to get loads of ties that are a useful lengh.Use one of the circles to give you a bundle that can be hung on a nail in the shed so you don't lose them!

The resulting ties are strong and soft enough not to damage soft stems etc.

[rustylady]

One of the trusses on my Gardeners Delight kinked. If you don't support it the nutrients won't get through to your developing tomatoes. I used string and looped it round the truss below the kink and tied it to the supporting cane.

[workhorse]

Many thanks everyone for the advice. I shall now busy myself with string and old tights (thats if the wife will stand still long enough)

[tomatolover]

That makes me feel better

First and most importantly about tomatoes. I've got some bendy stalks and wondered what I could use to tie them that had a bit more bounce and flex than string.
Second about laddering tights. Which happens all the time after about 5 minutes ! Now I know they were on their way to the garden all along.
I wonder if the name 'support tights' was trying to tell us something !