Early Tomato Thread

[Elaineb]

pruning toms

Do you leave every branch on the plant? Mine are doing really well, if a tad slow..the delights are about foot high now but they have loads and loads of branches, only just starting to show flowers on one truss. Should I leave them or prune them down a bit?

Elaine x

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

Grushovka have started setting fruit

[Tomatoking]

Do you leave every branch on the plant? Mine are doing really well, if a tad slow..the delights are about foot high now but they have loads and loads of branches, only just starting to show flowers on one truss. Should I leave them or prune them down a bit?

Elaine x

Hi Elaine

Unless you have bush type tomato plants, you do need to remove all the side shoots. Just be careful at the top, in case you snap off the head instead of a shoot.
There is a short video on my blog about removing side shoots in case you have any doubt.
Mr TK

[bramble]

My first few Red Alert toms are just beginning to show signs of turning red. I was'nt expecting these to ripen so quickly but I think the sunny weather this past week has done the trick.

[Elaineb]

Hi Elaine

Unless you have bush type tomato plants, you do need to remove all the side shoots. Just be careful at the top, in case you snap off the head instead of a shoot.
There is a short video on my blog about removing side shoots in case you have any doubt.
Mr TK

thanks tomatoking

I only have one group of flowers apearing on one plant at the moment, will they produce more?
And is it just the side shoots that you have to remove someone once told me that you should only leave 4 or 5 branches on a tom plant I thought this sounded wrong so thought I would ask here first.
Elaine x

[Tomatoking]

thanks tomatoking

I only have one group of flowers apearing on one plant at the moment, will they produce more?
And is it just the side shoots that you have to remove someone once told me that you should only leave 4 or 5 branches on a tom plant I thought this sounded wrong so thought I would ask here first.
Elaine x

Well you will have more trusses appearing as the plant grows, so don't worry.
As for leaves, for now leave them all on as long as possible, unless they are damaged. I tend to only remove leaves below the ripened fruit.
But you can remove the two small seedling leaves though.

Are you sure that it is not a bush type plant, do you know the name?

Mr TK

[Elaineb]

Well you will have more trusses appearing as the plant grows, so don't worry.
As for leaves, for now leave them all on as long as possible, unless they are damaged. I tend to only remove leaves below the ripened fruit.
But you can remove the two small seedling leaves though.

Are you sure that it is not a bush type plant, do you know the name?

Mr TK

It's either gardeners delight or garden pearl

xxx

[Tomatoking]

Well gardeners delight is ok, but the other one is a bush type, so you should keep the shoots on!

Just your luck, can you find out for sure, or can you get a picture on here?

Mr TK

[Elaineb]

Well gardeners delight is ok, but the other one is a bush type, so you should keep the shoots on!

Just your luck, can you find out for sure, or can you get a picture on here?

Mr TK

It's gardeners delight

I do have a few garden pearl, are they the ones with the darker thinner leaves more fanned out...wish I could get some piccies on...will have another try.

Elaine x

[Elaineb]

piccies

ok here goes... probs got it totally wrong!!!

I have deleted the pics as they were coming up far too large, I need to know how to embed them rather than just link from photobucket.

oh dear, where did I go wrong, I did re size these and rotated them...sorry guys

ok lets see how this one turns out
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oh poo I give up!!! someone please help me

last try


thats a better size but when clicked it links to my photobucket site...booo hooo!!!

[Tomatoking]

On a post here click on add attachment. its the one next to white smiley face, it will open a box,.click browse find the picture on your pc, and click upload.

It will upload as a thumbnail, but wont show till you post or preview post.


Mr TK

[Elaineb]

On a post here click on add attachment. its the one next to white smiley face, it will open a box,.click browse find the picture on your pc, and click upload.

It will upload as a thumbnail, but wont show till you post or preview post.


Mr TK

Thanks so much for that, I was at the point of flinging the laptop out the window last night

Elaine x

[Elaineb]

tom varieties

Well Here goes Tomatoking...fingers crossed


nope..keeps saying file failed...oh dear

[bramble]

I have picked a few Mexico Midget and Red Alert in the last few days. Its lovely to taste the flavour of a real home grown tom. The skin on the Red Alert seemed a bit tough but otherwise all was fine

[Tomatoking]

Well Here goes Tomatoking...fingers crossed


nope..keeps saying file failed...oh dear

Elaine, if the photos are on your laptop in your photos' file, they will automatically resize if you add them by adding the link method as I said, so you shouldn't really have a problem.


Mr TK