How To Prune Tomato Plants: In 3 Easy & Important Steps

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Our favorite tomato variety: http://amzn.to/2b9MKXC Should you prune Indeterminate or Determinate tomato plants or both? Where does a sucker grow and how do you identify it? What are the two types of suckers that need to be removed? These are all important questions and in order to have healthy, high yielding tomato plants you need to know the correct answers. There are three types of tomato plants; indeterminate, determinate and semi-determinate. I like growing indeterminate tomato plants because they produce 3x or more fruit compared to a determinate plants. I like to grow my indeterminate plants vertically up 170 lbs baler twine. I do that by removing all suckers which keeps the plant to one main leader. You don't have to prune tomato plants at all. But if you want more produce and healthier plants I recommend pruning the indeterminate varieties. Watch this video to get the answers to all the questions listed above and to increase the success of your vegetable garden. RESOURCES: - Mittleider Gardening Materials, Books, FAQ: http://MittleiderGardening.com - Thuricide (BT) Organic Worm Pesticide: http://amzn.to/2aGjGCi - Picking and Trimming Snips: http://amzn.to/2aAQrkH - Mittleider Gardening Course Book: http://growfood.com/Mittleider-Gardening-Course-Book

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does this principal apply to cherry tomato varieties too?

Hey Spencer. This is Mike Helton's wife. Would you mind e-mailing him? He tried to respond to your comment on his utube channel but it would not go through. I'm not sure why yet. thank you

Thank you very much. You explanations are excellent.

should is top feeding nutrients when green peas start to grow. should I just be using straight water from this stage?

Can I top the tomato plant. They have grown over 8 feet tall?

Wow looks like I have some work to do tomorow! My tomato plant is super thick and I can barely get to the tomatoes!

thank you. I just removed all the sucker branches off my plants. keeping only the ones that show fruits.

why remove the sucker when it has tomatoes on?

you are awesome.
thanks for the demo.

Excellent! I love his videos, so informative and clear. Anyone can ""get it" with his delivery. I learn on a more in depth way because he doesn't just tell us what to do and how to it properly, but he tells us why and gives us other associated things to watch for or be careful of.

Very nice explanation of pruning. Thank you.

will cutting hurt the plant?

Hi, Ldsprepper
Thank you for your video. I have one question, if I don't want to the tomato plants grow up too high, but got more tomatoes. should I leave a sucker grow, until to be another stem? Thanks

Mr Lds, can you pls tell me what you spray when it's over 90 (95-100f)? Bt melts my tomatoes when it's this hot and we do have a worm issue. Have you ever tried azatrol or azamax? It's a biologic also, but very expensive (~ $20.oo/4oz bottle) but seems ANYTHING I spray damages the plant. Do you have ANY suggestions please? (Btw, I pruned my tomatoes this yr the way it's done in this video (almost, there were a few I let go, but clipped the end off after 2 splits) and I am about to get ripe tomatoes this weeK (already)! One plant has about 20 changing color and they're bigger, thanks to your dirt mix) Pls help w/ the heat/worm issue if you can, thx L.

looks good thanks

At 1:17, you start describing suckers. You say they always grow in the crotch, but this time there are tomatoes growing, then more stem, then more little tomatoes starting, You cut those off at the end of the first group of tomatoes. These were not growing from a "crotch" position. Please reply and explain? Thanks.

thanks David! that was very informative. My tomato plant has tomatoes that are covered with leaf overgrowth, and I was wondering if I should just leave it alone. But I felt the sun isn't hitting the tomatoes and it's getting very dense. The fruit flowers on the tips of the plant aren't making fruit, but underneath, closer to the soil, the tomatoes are growing. So I will prune a lot of those leaves off. thanks!

Excellent video. Thank you!

Good video!