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At the beginning I said the 2 plants were planted on the 16th instead of the 6th of May. I do not prune out the suckers and I show you why. Suckers grow tomatoes. During the gardening seaon I will show you how many tomatoes a sucker will produce. On a cherry tomato the number could be as high as over 100 cherry tomatoes. If you take off 10 suckers from a plant and each sucker only produced 1 tomato it would still be 10 tomatoes, but it is a lot more. I get 300 to 500 cherry tomatoes, 100 to 125 salad tomatoes and 25 to 35 Better Boy tomatoes from each plant. If I suckered them I would get noticeably less tomatoes. The size of my tomatoes are not affected by leaving the suckers on the plant. They produce energy generating leaves, produce fruit, and shade the fruit from the sunburn. Suckers on tomatoes is how nature decided to grow tomatoes. We use to sucker tomatoes but found that we got more fruit when we stopped breaking them off. If you have a lot of roots the plants will support the sucker growth providing more stems, which grow more tomatoes per plant.