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Topping off tomato & no. of trusses?

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  • plumtasticplumtastic Posts: 11

    They are moneymaker variety, I dont have any bigger containers  to hand as they are in back of store room but I will do for next year image. Thank you everyone

  • T CT C Posts: 30

    I just let mine grow crazy and produce lots of tomatoes. There are alot of green recipes. Last year off 3 plants I managed to pull off 4kg of green cherry toms. This was around October time.

    I did get a lot of good red ones throughout the season also.

    It depends what you plan to do with them. Green Tom Chutney is pretty good in sandwiches. You can make alot of it from a few plants.

  • plumtasticplumtastic Posts: 11

    Think I will be on a tomato diet lol  image 

  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    Just tacking onto the end of this thread I was considering limiting the number of trusses this year. (I intend to every year, but my greed for quantities of tomatoes always stops me.) So thus far, over the last 25 years of growing them, I have never limited the number of trusses and usually get many kilos of very good tomatoes. (SE London, grown outside.) I was wondering if I would get *better* tomatoes if I limited the number of trusses. Quality over quantity etc. And would the plants need less watering?
    Last year I grew some on the balcony (white painted house wall at the back, glass roof and walls at the ends, south facing) on quad grow tanks. The plants ended up being rather unmanageably big,  and for that reason if I grew them up there again, I'd consider pinching out the growing tips. The tanks also had to be filled every other day (30l of water for 4 plants) on hot days.
    I guess there are usually some green tomatoes at the end of the season, but I certainly have more than enough ripe ones prior to that. (My freezer is usually pretty much full of passata by early October.)
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I usually top off plants at 5/6 trusses to ensure ripening of standard sized toms, but don't with plum or cherry. I too end up with a freezer full from my greenhouse by end of September @REMF33
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