Plant management

BigVanVader · June 8, 2016

This thread is great and needs a sticky. Now to my question. I am pruning more heavily than ever before this year and I am curious about weather you prune petioles? I decided to prune several of mine as they were hiding the fruit and/or there were several branches in one area and since I am spraying so much I found it impossible to coat the interior leaves effectively. I assumed it was ok from pics I have seen but I do worry about sun scald and taking too many leaves off. Is there a number of laterals I should leave based on the number of tomatoes or some other guideline I can follow? At the moment I am just kinda winging it since I normally just prune suckers and bottom growth.

June 8, 2016	#11
BigVanVader Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Greenville, South Carolina Posts: 3,099	This thread is great and needs a sticky. Now to my question. I am pruning more heavily than ever before this year and I am curious about weather you prune petioles? I decided to prune several of mine as they were hiding the fruit and/or there were several branches in one area and since I am spraying so much I found it impossible to coat the interior leaves effectively. I assumed it was ok from pics I have seen but I do worry about sun scald and taking too many leaves off. Is there a number of laterals I should leave based on the number of tomatoes or some other guideline I can follow? At the moment I am just kinda winging it since I normally just prune suckers and bottom growth. Last edited by BigVanVader; June 8, 2016 at 08:38 AM.