Early Girl Small Fruit

Heidelberg · February 17, 2011

I have an early girl which seems to be very healthy. It is VERY small however. We have pretty warm winters in Arizona so I just went ahead and got a jump start on it. Its just short of 2ft tall maybe 20-22in. It has about 20 fruits growing on it already. The older ones don't appear to be getting any bigger while the newer ones are far surpassing them. It started setting fruit not too long after I planted it. It has 4 stems, some of which arent producing fruit yet but all do have blossoms. I feel like maybe there isn't enough vegetative matter to keep all the fruit growing. Should I:

1) Snip the blossoms off the non-producing stems but keep the leaves?
2) Snip off the non producing stems completely?
3) Snip off the small fruits that don't seem to be growing (large pea size)?
4) Leave it alone, they will catch up?
5) Just quit obsessing about it this is normal?

February 17, 2011	#1
Heidelberg Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Phoenix Posts: 22	Early Girl Small Fruit I have an early girl which seems to be very healthy. It is VERY small however. We have pretty warm winters in Arizona so I just went ahead and got a jump start on it. Its just short of 2ft tall maybe 20-22in. It has about 20 fruits growing on it already. The older ones don't appear to be getting any bigger while the newer ones are far surpassing them. It started setting fruit not too long after I planted it. It has 4 stems, some of which arent producing fruit yet but all do have blossoms. I feel like maybe there isn't enough vegetative matter to keep all the fruit growing. Should I: 1) Snip the blossoms off the non-producing stems but keep the leaves? 2) Snip off the non producing stems completely? 3) Snip off the small fruits that don't seem to be growing (large pea size)? 4) Leave it alone, they will catch up? 5) Just quit obsessing about it this is normal? Last edited by Heidelberg; February 17, 2011 at 04:58 PM. Reason: wrong number value