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OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
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Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 6:38 am Post subject: When to stop tomatoes?
Most of my tommy plants have reached the top of their canes now. I could train them higher with heath robinson strings, etc but was wondering is there a more logical reason to stop them? Perhaps after a certain number of flowering trusses? After a certain date (so they have time to ripen)? What do you do (and does it work )?

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15575

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 7:05 am Post subject:
Think the old rule used to be after 3 or 4 trusses.

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
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Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 7:13 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

Think the old rule used to be after 3 or 4 trusses.

Maybe I'm greedy but it doesn't sound like many

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 7:16 am Post subject:
I don't bother with it either, but it was supposed to produce good tomatoes from the trusses you had.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 7:36 am Post subject:
I let them go wild. I like my tomatoes.

Bungo

Joined: 21 Dec 2011
Posts: 354
Location: Wye Valley

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 8:33 am Post subject:
Depends on variety too, cherrys ,as many trusses you can get beef tomatoes 4 or 5 ? And on how their planted and what their planted in ?

Piggyphile

Joined: 02 Apr 2009
Posts: 891
Location: Galicia

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 10:29 am Post subject:
And time of year and if they are indoors or out. I tend to stop mine a few weeks before the end of the growing season so the ones still small and green have a chance to fatten up and I can pick them before frosts get them

farmershort

Joined: 17 Nov 2010
Posts: 124
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 2:15 pm Post subject:

ooooo great topic! I'd been wondering this too!

If this isn't too much of a thread hijack (apologies if it is):

I'm growing:

Dr Carolyn Pink Larger

Giganti Liscio

Green Zebra

Marmande

All of them in a polytunnel (4.5m long) and all of them growing in 10L pots. The Green Zebra are the shortest of the bunch by a long way, but the Giganti and the Dr Carolyn are nearly at the top of the canes..

What exactly do we mean by truss? Flower stems, or leaf pairs up the main stem?

Thanks

Adam

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45420
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 2:23 pm Post subject:
A truss is a cluster of fruit isn't it?

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 2:38 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

A truss is a cluster of fruit isn't it?

That's my interpretation here.

pollyanna

Joined: 03 Nov 2012
Posts: 221

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 3:08 pm Post subject:
I usually take the flowers off at the beginning of August; and the green tomatoes I don't think will develop/ripen at the beginning of September. I think green tomato chutney is the food of the Devil, but I appreciate many people rate it highly!

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 3:27 pm Post subject:
I'm growing two varieties of trailing toms in hanging baskets for the first time this year, and as they are meant to be heavy croppers, am just letting them do their own thing.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45460
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 4:17 pm Post subject:
some of the older tall varieties are best topped at six trusses ,modern ones often self stop

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11405

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 4:38 pm Post subject:
Truss is such a wonderful word.

Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
Posts: 527
Location: Sanday , Orkney

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 14 5:41 pm Post subject:

farmershort wrote:

I'm growing:

Marmande

Adam

adam I hope some one will correct me if im wrong but isn't marmande a bush variety I.E best left to it's own devices.

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