Good to see another Sacramento gardener on RUclips. Most of the gardeners that I follow are located in either San Diego County, the Gulf Coast, East Coast or Michigan where the climate is totally different from Sacto. This year, I tried the "drop and shift" method for tomatoes with a tall string trellis and sucker pruning for indeterminate varieties. So far, it's worked fairly well with only a few screw ups (my bad).
When my tomato plants reached the 7ft ceiling in my greenhouse I started to snip the leaders but then, side shoots shot up to the ceiling and I just didnt have the heart to snip those as each & everyone of them was full of blossoms. So now those shoots are all bent over smashed up against the ceiling plastic. I have been looking at greenhouses for next year hoping to get a taller one but 6.5-7ft seems to be about it unless you want to spend thousand$ for a commercial GH. I dont. 15L X 10W will do me fine. !
Not necessarily, our summers are so hot it’s simply hard to avoid but over watering can be more damaging. We’ve noticed that when we train our tomatoes to trellis vertically that throughout the season the bottom leaves tend to die off but the entire plant still grows and is healthy.
So glad I found this! Mine just hit 6ft tall & I almost lost them all in a wind storm last night! Thank you so much!
Glad it helped, good luck!!
Good to see another Sacramento gardener on RUclips. Most of the gardeners that I follow are located in either San Diego County, the Gulf Coast, East Coast or Michigan where the climate is totally different from Sacto. This year, I tried the "drop and shift" method for tomatoes with a tall string trellis and sucker pruning for indeterminate varieties. So far, it's worked fairly well with only a few screw ups (my bad).
Nice, we haven't tried that method but it seems like a good one! Welcome to our channel :)
When my tomato plants reached the 7ft ceiling in my greenhouse I started to snip the leaders but then, side shoots shot up
to the ceiling and I just didnt have the heart to snip those as each & everyone of them was full of blossoms. So now those
shoots are all bent over smashed up against the ceiling plastic. I have been looking at greenhouses for next year hoping to
get a taller one but 6.5-7ft seems to be about it unless you want to spend thousand$ for a commercial GH. I dont.
15L X 10W will do me fine.
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Needed to watch that! I was wondering if you could stop them from getting taller.
Thank you for the tips,
We had several heavy rains this year and think it added a ton of atmospheric N I'm thinking/planning on doing this
It definitely helps make them more manageable and encourages wider growth if you are unable to trellis any higher
Large percentage of the leaves look dried out .. doesn’t that mean you need to water them more?
Not necessarily, our summers are so hot it’s simply hard to avoid but over watering can be more damaging. We’ve noticed that when we train our tomatoes to trellis vertically that throughout the season the bottom leaves tend to die off but the entire plant still grows and is healthy.
Did I just find my future husband trying to find out how to make my plants bushy?
Huh?
MIne is 7 feet , maybe about time to cut the top 😄
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