Due to a Google screw up, I haven't written here in a while because I couldn't log in and just got plain too frustrated with technology to deal with it until now. So much has happened since I last wrote - good and bad.
Let's start with the good: our cherry tomatoes are growing wonderfully. They have put on so much growth, we made a fancy string trellis system so that they could stand up nice and neat.
LOOK:
I also learned how to prune tomatoes:
Basically, keep the "sucker" that's below the first flower cluster and kill all others. This sucker will become bigger and will be the second "leader". So the entire plant will eventually become Y-shaped when that sucker is grown (it's way easier to prune at this point).
Pruning helps maximize yields of produce by being efficient on where the energy of the plant goes to and minimize the risk of catching diseases. It also makes the plants look neater, and I'm sure it's a lot easier to keep them supported as well. You can view how I learned how to do this and how we made the trellis system in the video by Johnny's Seeds here.
~jesusnunezx
~jesusnunezx
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