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Mass

If leaving a second vine, when should it be left? first one? second? up 18inches(one quote in the book). I guess because you prune off first 15inches later? I know there are lots of different opinions on this.

6/10/2011 6:55:35 PM

Muddy Waters

This is hard to understand for me.Dont you leave several secondarys?? & just pick suckers out of crotch The pics show several can someone explain this to me??

6/11/2011 9:35:09 PM

Mass

I believe that suckers and secondaries are the same.

6/12/2011 7:49:03 AM

Muddy Waters

I dont know? Isnt a sucker a trynary!!

6/12/2011 9:11:56 AM

Muddy Waters

wheres Marvin??

6/12/2011 9:31:24 AM

On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

The first sucker vine below th first cluster of tomatoes on the main vine should be allowed to become the second main vine. All othe suckers should be pruned off after one or two leaves have developed. Prune them after those leaves are on. Train the first sucker to become the second main vine. This second main vine will allow for more blossoms and perhaps the megabloom you are looking for.

6/12/2011 8:21:02 PM

Mass

OK, after letting one or two leaves develope though, do you remove the whole sucker or prune just above those one or two leaves that you left?

6/13/2011 7:48:53 AM

Lexington,IN

So do you let all suckers grow until the first cluster shows, then remove all suckers except the one directly below the cluster? It seems to me that there would be a few suckers showing up before the first cluster?? Or am I wrong, again?

6/13/2011 12:55:44 PM

On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

You can let the suckers all grow until you see the first fruit cluster. Marv

6/13/2011 8:32:23 PM

Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia

Picture a Bart Simpson slingshot, articulated at 45 degrees. There's your second main. Each main will produce clusters of it's own, just pinch off any suckers that appear on either one.

6/13/2011 9:47:18 PM