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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
[Re: noeyeddeer]
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06/09/20 10:56 AM
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Never heard about pinching tomato plants, I would like to hear more. My tomato plants always outgrow my cages.
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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
[Re: noeyeddeer]
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06/09/20 11:50 AM
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Indeterminate varieties should have the suckers pinched. Will help to top them when they get to tall too. Thought that was common knowledge.
"In time of war, send me all the Alabamians you can get, but in time of peace, for Lord's sake, send them to somebody else." General Edward H. Plummer
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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
[Re: noeyeddeer]
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06/09/20 01:16 PM
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I'll see if I can't rig something up to get it to stand back up and take some pics after this storm passes through, it's raining a bit here. I'm not even sure if I planted determinate or indeterminate, honestly but I did pinch off the suckers. Just not sure how to support these since metal cage with the stake didn't work. Maybe I'll find me some scrape lumber to see if I got any 8-10 ft long to drive in from a ladder. It's the damnedest thing I've ever seen. I've grown lots of maters but they never got taller than me and I'm over 6' tall.
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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
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06/09/20 03:30 PM
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Indeterminate varieties should have the suckers pinched. Will help to top them when they get to tall too. Thought that was common knowledge. This is the correct answer. I’ve never heard of anyone pinching the tops off a tomato plant.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
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06/09/20 03:31 PM
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Indeterminate varieties should have the suckers pinched. Will help to top them when they get to tall too. Thought that was common knowledge. This is the correct answer. I’ve never heard of anyone pinching the tops off a tomato plant. So what is one supposed to do with a plant that's 4 feet taller than me. How do you support that monster? Not saying you guys are wrong, I've only dabbled in gardening and know nothing. But I'm just curious what I should have done to keep these unruly things in check.
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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
[Re: noeyeddeer]
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06/09/20 04:01 PM
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I'd cut the top off myself.
"In time of war, send me all the Alabamians you can get, but in time of peace, for Lord's sake, send them to somebody else." General Edward H. Plummer
"Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight." Jeff Cooper
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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
[Re: noeyeddeer]
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06/09/20 04:40 PM
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Indeterminate varieties should have the suckers pinched. Will help to top them when they get to tall too. Thought that was common knowledge. This is the correct answer. I’ve never heard of anyone pinching the tops off a tomato plant. So what is one supposed to do with a plant that's 4 feet taller than me. How do you support that monster? Not saying you guys are wrong, I've only dabbled in gardening and know nothing. But I'm just curious what I should have done to keep these unruly things in check. Less Nitrogen fertilizer. The plants stop bearing from the bottom up to the top, so if you cut the tops off, you're gonna run out of maters before the summer is over.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
[Re: noeyeddeer]
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06/09/20 08:38 PM
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Consider it a blessing and not a problen ☺
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin
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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
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06/09/20 09:00 PM
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Consider it a blessing and not a problen ☺ I doubt, I’ve had my worst year... idk what’s going on in my dirt but it’s going wrong for the whole dang crop
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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
[Re: BPI]
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06/10/20 06:40 PM
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2 X 4 X 10 and a ladder ? Yep
No good decision was ever made from a swivel chair.
Gen. Patton
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Jeremiah 17:10
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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
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06/10/20 06:40 PM
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And some pics cause i'd love to see it. X2
No good decision was ever made from a swivel chair.
Gen. Patton
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Jeremiah 17:10
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Re: Tomato Plants too tall
[Re: noeyeddeer]
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06/14/20 08:46 AM
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You can buy 10ft t post they are used for deer fencing I think tractor supply can order them for about $10 each or could I know Ken cove can. Drive two of those and a 1-1/2” pvc t on top and slide a piece of lmt through it and you have something to tie them off too. Also if you cut the main stall they will stop growing up and fruit more
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