We use these things, for each tomato plant it’s own! Together with a rope tied together, brings so much support!🍅

I grow mine outside but super dense. Cut the larger forks off the bottom foot or so, thin some areas to reach in and harvest. Also cut stuff that’s tangling other plants and too dense to reach in if needed. For us in NH outside this gets me into Novembe, only the fruit on the outside will hurt from a light frost.

Hi, I'm not really a tomatoe farmer though but I could maybe say something about it because I planted them 1 time in the past and it was like someone said to you, u need to cut the suckers away so that plant can grow more higher in vertically and yes you need to tiy the plant to any support so it stands up otherwise plant cant support itself if it grows high. And dont worry to cut the suckers off it will give more energy to grow more higher. Hope you understand what I mean 😉💜 all the best and they looks amazingly grown yes 🌞🍅

From my understanding you can use the SCROG technique on tomato plants. My friendwna runs a big company that designs grow houses for cannabis and he will help set up a SCROG system. He told me it works very well for tomato plants as well. You can google it for more details but it's essentially topping the plant at a hightyou are good with so it doesn't get taller but grows outwards, then setting up wiring for it togrow across. Very similar to what the above post is doing where he creates an arc, but can be down in a more compact area.

Beautiful plants.

I am an agronomist by training so I should know a thing or three about plants.

You take out the suckers when they first start appearing. The term used is pinching because you literally pinch them out with your fingers, doing no harm to the plants and allowing them to grow straight and tall. As they are right now, they are nice and bushy.

You can still remove the suckers if you wish. Just remember the more foliage, the greater your chances of pest and disease, more food for them.

Also note, more leaves mean less fruits, the plant puts resources into leaves and stems instead of fruits.

Hope this helps.

#grownostr

don't be a sucker!! propagate them...

I'd trim some of the bigger lower leaves. help prevent anything from coming up from below, pests, fungus, whatever.

I'd trim off suckers & put in water to propagate them. also, tomato leaves are edible... not palatable to many, but edible nonetheless, by you or as fodder.

plenty of "how to trim suckers" videos on odysee or rumble, which ever decentralized liberty loving video provider you choose.

https://odysee.com/$/download/tomato-suckers-turned-to-producers/03e1941a0aebea9fcc5133621f1209ec1fe517be

Anything I have to say has already been said.. 😉

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=N586k4Jv1Xg

He has a few other good videos on tomatoes too.

ALWAYS Pinch-Off the suckers! (If you missed one thats become several trusses you can root them in moist soil for more plants)

You want to prune to a central stem and then support that stem with clips clipped to a vertical nylon twine. You want to clip just under a leaf truss or flower truss.

You also should prune out the lower leaves as the plant grows AND any leaves that obscure the Tomatoes and prevent sun from kissing them. You want airflow around the plants especially indoors.

Once your plants have set fruit you'll want to increase your dose of Potassium and lower your Nitrogen input a bit for better fruit production vs. vegetative growth.