On the other hand, if you leave the stem, you will have more laterals to cut off, the plant becomes too leafy and you are feeding too much foliage which in turn glean the nutrients from the fruit.
actually the leaves help produce more nutrients and better fruit.
The leaves also impede air flow and can provide the perfect conditions for blight to develop. That’s why knowledge and understanding of local conditions is so useful.
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As @Dovefromabove says, knowing your local conditions is very useful, I leave as many leaves as possible especially later in the summer as the tomatoes are ripening to shield them from the hot sun, otherwise they have sun scorch and turn white.
You can actually plant 2 tomatoes 6 feet apart and the air will flow between them. However, I imagine if the individual plants are just a mass of leaves, the air flow to/round that particular plant will be affected. Pruning at the wrong time or over pruning something can certainly lead to problems but not really relevant to Toms - or at least not that I've found over the years.
Of an indeterminate plant this is utter rubbish. In between the two extremes of pruning everything off and not removing anything is the correct answer. It's about removing the right leaves, from the right place at the right time and it differs dependent on variety.
Similarly I have yet to see a tomato which is completely hidden from the sun by the leaves or turn white in the sun, but again, not all varieties act the same.
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actually the leaves help produce more nutrients and better fruit.
porterhouse is better.
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pruning can also make plant weaker to disease.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pruning at the wrong time or over pruning something can certainly lead to problems but not really relevant to Toms - or at least not that I've found over the years.
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In between the two extremes of pruning everything off and not removing anything is the correct answer.
It's about removing the right leaves, from the right place at the right time and it differs dependent on variety.
Similarly I have yet to see a tomato which is completely hidden from the sun by the leaves or turn white in the sun, but again, not all varieties act the same.