I need advice, my tomato plants are huge, they are in a greenhouse, because of the heavy winds I have in my area, they need protection.
I have blooms, few tomatoes, but the plants are over 5 feet tall and have folded over and are reaching the ground.
Can I trim them without loosing the plant
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Trimming/topping won't hurt the plant, but it will affect production since fruit/flowers are produced sequentially on a vine, so letting them grow along the ground would give you more fruit.
5 ft isn't large for your basic indeterminant tomato plant. You might want to go with dwarf varieties or compact determinants next year.
5 ft isn't large for your basic indeterminant tomato plant. You might want to go with dwarf varieties or compact determinants next year.
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I suggest giving the plants some support... with cages or stakes, or some other method. I think the plants are much more manageable (and usually healthier) when they are kept up off of the ground.Laurasilva wrote:..., but the plants are over 5 feet tall and have folded over and are reaching the ground.
In a greenhouse it is easy to grow more plants close together and prune them to 1-2 vines wrapped around droplines from the ceiling (commercial greenhouses simply let out more line from the ceiling spool when the vines get to the top and let the bottom lie on the floor. Much easier to work with than cages and stakes. With a long season you can use the suckers from the first plant as cuttings to multiply your numbers.