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Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

Ok so I am growing delicous variety supposed to produce the big ones.

How many fruits should i leave on the plant. I dont really have a main on it but a several secondaries.

How tall should the plant be when it polinates? how tall should it bee before the first fruit?

Any other advice would be helpful.. biggest tomato compettion is first sat in Aug.

6/23/2009 9:46:01 AM

Bemidji Minnesota

I just allow one fruit per cluster.

Look for a megabloom to save, otherwise keep the fastes grower in the cluster.

So if the plant has 4 vines, and 4 clusters on each, then 16 tomatoes.

Most of the guys use missouri pruning, and only allow 3 vines to continue.

Not the biggest yeild of total tomatoes, but the overall size will be big.

If you want a good yeild, let the plant keep a lot of the fruit, and you will have more of them, but will not reach the ultimate size that selective harvest gives.

6/23/2009 1:48:28 PM

Bemidji Minnesota

http://www.finegardening.com/how-to/articles/pruning-tomatoes.aspx

6/23/2009 1:50:31 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

Whats a mega boom?

6/24/2009 1:04:01 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

A mega bloom is a blossom that has several blossoms combined together.

6/24/2009 2:07:01 PM

Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

OH CRAP so they arent a mutant but a good thing. So I should leave em alone.

so do mega blooms grow faster tomatoes than reg blooms?

6/24/2009 6:41:55 PM