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  • Tomatoes - accidental removal of growing tip?

    Having been away for a couple of days I have a horrible feeling I may have been over-enthusiastic in the removal of side shoots. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I may have removed the growing tip as opposed to a side shoot. If I have, will something take its place? The plants in question are an Ailsa Craig and a Gardener's Delight. Neither plant has any flowers yet.

    (For both plants I had three 'branches' looking a bit like this:

    \ /
    \ * /
    \|/
    |

    The * denotes a growing leaf, and the shoot I removed. At th time I thought one of the ones on the side had the growing tip as there was more activity/new growth apparent there, but now I'm worried that that may have been developing leaves on a branch).

    Cheers

    Chris

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    You can still remedy this - sometimes they branch at the top and give you a victory sign - I'm choosing to interpret it this way! If they are not too big you can still remove one and make the other into the new leader. If the situation's too advanced, well, make sure it doesn't happen again, and have 2 leaders. I think you'd expect the best yield from the trad method but if you stop at 5 trusses or so (in total) it should't make too much difference (except perhaps harder to stake?) I've had this happen - you still get toms, don't worry!
    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

    www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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    • #3
      Dont worrit at all they generally send up a new leader from somewhere near the top. Two of mine snapped off completely but both are up and running again with a side shoot taking over as leader.

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      • #4
        Agree with piglet willie.
        they want to be multi stemmed plants, it's only us who forces them into cordons for space,productivity etc.
        Take the top out & it'll send out a new one from somewhwere.
        How low it comes out will depend to a certain extent on how thorough you've been at removing the axillary shoots.
        have fun ,tomatoes are v forgiving this way.
        Jane

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        • #5
          Originally posted by chickenjane View Post
          Agree with piglet willie.
          they want to be multi stemmed plants, it's only us who forces them into cordons for space,productivity etc.
          It's my first time growing things, and I suppose I forget this. Plants are designed to grow after all! So out of the toms, courgettes, beans and lettuce I have on the go, I should get something!

          Cheers for the encouraging words.

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          • #6
            Oh You'll get something allright drf. Lots of toms for a start. No worries there. Yout toms will be fine. A new leader will shoot up.

            From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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            • #7
              Dont worry ,grow the nearest side shoot to the removed growing tip and keep removing any below as normal ,the plant should be fine.

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              • #8
                i was in israel last month and walked past a garden with toms growing in it. the plant i could get closest to must have been 6ft tall with 3 main stems and toms all over the place! just goes to show what they can do when the weathers right

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