Now what??????????

[roitelet]

The Roma bush tomatoes are growing well but they are huge and if they get much bigger I won't be able to get into the tunnel!!

They are setting fruit and they are so tall I have stopped them. The sideshoots are producing sideshoots and sideshoots and sideshoots.......... Should I remove some if the less mature shoots to encourage the others to get on with the job of producing fruit.

HELP please

[Nicos]

Oh - gosh!

Can you try and root some of side shoots to extend your season??

[roitelet]

I could but where am I going to put them? I think that I may look like like a tomato by the time the season is over!!!!!!

[chris]

outside in pots!

[VirginVegGrower]

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The Roma bush tomatoes are growing well but they are huge and if they get much bigger I won't be able to get into the tunnel!!

They are setting fruit and they are so tall I have stopped them. The sideshoots are producing sideshoots and sideshoots and sideshoots.......... Should I remove some if the less mature shoots to encourage the others to get on with the job of producing fruit.

HELP please

Well I am deeply envious as I reckon all we will end up with in the UK are blighted marbles. My desire to move to France is stronger than ever.

[taff]

snap. Mine is to move to Italy soonest....even if they have blight too [in the North]

Ahem...back to the question...I wouldn't bother methodically removing the sideshoots, you could remove the odd yellow straggly branch, but it's not essential. Make sure you have a good airflow for them though.

[VirginVegGrower]

snap. Mine is to move to Italy soonest....even if they have blight too [in the North]

Ahem...back to the question...I wouldn't bother methodically removing the sideshoots, you could remove the odd yellow straggly branch, but it's not essential. Make sure you have a good airflow for them though.

That sounds good - lets set up a commune! Base of Etna in Sicily is good for growing. We will pick you up on the way down

[Nicos]

That sounds good - lets set up a commune! Base of Etna in Sicily is good for growing.

Anyone got a seismic sensor????

[taff]

there's always a spoilsport isn't there?

[smc999]

France would be a great place to live IF the French weren't there!

[VirginVegGrower]

Anyone got a seismic sensor????

there's always a spoilsport isn't there?

Isn't there just. I had had thunder and lightning practically in my head all morning. For me there would be no difference, apart from I would be able to grow vg instead of slug's belly size. The only exercise I have at the moment, is hurling slimy critters over the fence...don't tell my neighbours

[SarzWix]

Sounds like you have a semi-determinate variety Roitelet, which can't make it's mind up whether to be a cordon or a bush! I had that happen when I grew Roma, and so I don't grow them anymore...

I did find that I had to undertake some fairly radical pruning of mine though, because there was no air-flow and my old greenhouse was terrible for botrytis. The plants still cropped well after the radical pruning, I think because they put more energy into the fruit instead of trying to maintain an ever increasing amount of greenery!

[taff]

haha!!! I do the same with the snails too

[roitelet]

Sounds like you have a semi-determinate variety Roitelet, which can't make it's mind up whether to be a cordon or a bush! I had that happen when I grew Roma, and so I don't grow them anymore...

I did find that I had to undertake some fairly radical pruning of mine though, because there was no air-flow and my old greenhouse was terrible for botrytis. The plants still cropped well after the radical pruning, I think because they put more energy into the fruit instead of trying to maintain an ever increasing amount of greenery!

Thanks, radical pruning it is then when the temperature drops enough for me to get in the tunnel. 33 outside at the moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PyreneesPlot]

How about potting up the side shoots and flogging them at a vide grenier?

33? Ha - 38 here....