Determinate Tomatoes: Tips on Fertilizing, Pruning (DON'T) and Staking - TRG 2015
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Determinate tomatoes need very little pruning because they grow to a set height, flower, set fruit and then die off. Size does not become a management issue. Pruning is mostly done on indeterminate tomatoes to manage growth. I give you some quick tips on fertilizing, pruning and staking determinate tomatoes. Check out my vegetable gardening blog: The Rusted Garden. It is filled with garden information, videos, pictures, seed catalogs and seeds & things I sell. www.therustedgarden.blogspot.com Join My Google+ Gardening Community called Our Tomato & Vegetable Gardens - we are approaching 5000 world-wide gardeners: https://plus.google.com/communities/114956817444053979636 or Link from My YouTube Page.
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Bush Goliath tomato,determinant hybrid. I've never seen a plant do this. All the flowers are at the top stems and there are no flowers in the middle or lower stems. And the flowers are tiny with tiny fruits. Only purchased one plant from HD garden store. Growing in a ten gallon container. Three years of blight with IND tomatoes, caused me to go DET hybrids plants rather than seeds. But these DET from HD do not produce very few flowers, even with a 4-24-24 organic fert. This is not flower drop, they are producing about 10 to 20 flowers on a three foot vine. Any ideas or did I get some bad plants from HD?
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I am almost done, i have put 3 hours in on sunday night and 3 .5 hours last night setting up and putting my tomatoes and peppers in my conatainers. not done yet. i wasnt sure if leaves could fall on the mulch. in the video it says its ok . so i know now. i did every thing u have showed us. I am loving the hard work. i started getting lazy and not measuring my bone meal, blood meal , and 10-10-10 slow release . I hope i didn't over do it. I am keeping an eye on them. lol Do u think they will be alright? what could happen if i added to much. :)
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Gary, do you need to cage determinate tomatoes?
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Hey Gary another great video, I was just wondering if the mulch prevents having to prune off the bottom branches that hang or touch the ground? I saw in the comment below it prevents the soil from splashing up on the underside of the leaves. Thanks for your time.
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What kind of disease barrier should you give determinate tomatoes? Any bottom branches pruned off? just mulch?
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I believe I have a determinate and did prune off the suckers and lower branches. Did I do any damage to the plant pruning?
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I had a nice variety of determinate (I think) tomato plant a few years ago that was called jumping tiger or something like that. It was a small bushy plant. The tomatoes were elongated and striped green and red. I was able to get many flushes of tomatoes. Transplanted indoors during the winter, and had tomatoes in January and February. So, I guess I don't understand when you say the plant will die... Did I have some crazy hybrid or what?
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Gary, today I noticed on the Bush Early Girl, planted in a five gallon containers, blight on the lower leaves. I am going to cut off the blight stems. How much will it effect the production of fruit when I remove several lower leaves from a determinant tomato?
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+Gary Pilarchik Great video ... thanks for educating us. I am growing determinates (36) for the first time this year. My plants have mostly all set fruit. I am in Georgia so I have a long growing season. Is now the right time to plant seeds for a second wave of determinate harvest? Or do I wait until they the set fruit starts to ripen? I am hoping to re-use the containers for my second wave and I am hoping to avoid root bound plants with nowhere to be planted.
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What mulch does a better job when considering it breaking down or leeching (dyed mulch)?
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Hi there and thank you for this awesome channel. Dumb question: if I save seeds from store brought tomatoes, how can I know if they are determinate or indeterminate tomatoes? I just have to watch if they die? Hope to see more and more videos :D
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i usually have to cage my determinate's or use several stakes and string. had terrible problems last year with their sucker branches snapping off due to the tomato weight and plant leaf mass was just too much for it to handle
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Gary do you have micro determinate tomatoes in America, those that do not grow more than a foot or can be planted in hanging baskets.
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Another good strategy with determinate tomatoes is for canning / processing since you get so much all at once. With indeterminate tomatoes, you get fewer at one time so have to plant more plants to have enough to process.
Personally, I have been growing indeterminate tomaotes for the most part..just plant a bunch of them. -
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How would you recommend pruning semi-determinant varieties such as Mountain Gold? -
Thanks Gary! I was looking for this answer and of course would find it in your video. I bought a determinate tomato plant (about 6 inches tall) and it started to flower after I transplanted it. I was wondering if it was due to stress from being transplanted and should prune it. I am going to leave it and hope for some nice tomatoes.
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It would be interesting to see a side by side comparison of one pruned and one that isn't and how they differ in terms of yield (total weight). Also how long does neem+soap take to kill aphids? Dumb ants keep harvesting them on my tomatoes.
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What do you think about red pumice ground cover??
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