supporting cherry tomato trusses?

[Kiwi_Soph]

My Sweet Millions has got a lot of green fruit on it at the moment. Brilliant if it ripens, but I am getting worried that the trusses are getting too heavy to support themselves. The tomatoes themselves are little cherries but it is the amount on each truss that is weighing them down!

A couple have grown normally but there are a few that have split and split again and now are really full - do I need to support them with a sling type arrangement and how would I do it?

[Paulottie]

Should be just fine on their own. some times it is best to hook them over the pot as those at soil level can get slugged.

I know there is an argument for defoliation at the end of the season, i do it myself.... but perhaps you may have been just a bit severe?

[taff]

I'd only bother supporting each one truss individually if it looked like they were breaking. You've already got fully formed toms on your trusses, so they're not likely to get bigger, only riper
Just make sure the main stem is supported and not likely to slide down the support under the wieght of all the trusses.

[Kiwi_Soph]

Should be just fine on their own. some times it is best to hook them over the pot as those at soil level can get slugged.

I know there is an argument for defoliation at the end of the season, i do it myself.... but perhaps you may have been just a bit severe?

I haven't actually taken all that much off that plant. The lower two sets of leaves went without my help - a mixture of slugs and my neighbour helpfully spraying all his blackberry bushes on a windy day! I took off one more branch in between the first two trusses because it was getting tangled between all the tomatoes and looking very sorry for itself. There are lots more branches up above where the photo cuts out though!

[Paulottie]

Photos can be deceptive...anyhow as my neighbour says...'you can't eat the leaves Paul'.. (btw If they had caught weedkiller it would be systemic, surely?) ....You must be doing something right fantastic trusses...well done.

[Kiwi_Soph]

the weed killer was back when my toms were babies - it didn't die, the leaves just curled up like frightend hedgehogs and never uncurled, but it eventually outgrew it. It may well have been some sort of reaction to the wind, i'm sure, it was just quite coincidental that a areally healthy plant would go into protective shock mode at the same time as someone sprays plants about 1m away!

edit - as for the trusses, I think I'm just blindly stumbling through, it is a Sweet Millions so I'd hope for more than one! Plus I'm not going to count my tomatoes until they're ripe

[Gemmalaveen]

The leaves on most of my tomato leaves curled up this year too, and some have some rust looking marks on them too. This hasn't affected the toms though, I have harvested loads already and plenty more to come!

I have a tumbling tom red in a hanging basket and two of the branches have started to tear from the weight of it all. I am guessing the basket is too small as I have another tumbling tom in a big round container and it is doing much better - fruits also much tastier. I think I will give the hanging basket a miss next year...