Wow, your plants have grown in leaps and bounds. When I sucker, I remove even the tiny suckers with a snips that has a knife edge on the outside edges. I also keep two leaves on the main sucker under the fruit cluster. This puts a couple leaves above the fruit cluster to help shade the fruit, sunshine on fruit will cause the fruit to ripen too quickly giving less than perfect fruit interior, ie hard white areas. Keeping the fruit cool is the main reason I put two or three coats of liquid shade on all my tomato houses. My Big Beef + are just starting to bloom, I get started later so I don't have to spend money on heating houses and I don't have elongated fruit cluster stems from lower light levels earlier in the year. I start applying shade when the fruit get to 75 % size. I leave four tomatoes per cluster as Big Beef have huge fruit. Glad to hear you found some help, mine fell through and I'm worried I will be short on help this year.
Good points. Yeah our first planting is on cluster number five and about 8 feet tall now. At least the elongation only happens for a few weeks and now there’s plenty of sun so it shouldn’t happen anymore. For me to be successful selling tomatoes during May June and July before the field tomatoes come on I have to spend about 7 to $8000 in propane, but it’s a very small price to pay for the amount of profit I will make during those three months before anyone in Ohio has Tomatoes. I’ve never used the liquid shade, we have put a 35% white shade cloth on in the past, but that was 15 years ago. Once we get to August we’re done picking them and we top the plants and they are terminated by Labor Day because of how many Tomatoes we are picking in the field at that time. I know you told me where you’re from but I’m assuming it’s much further south than me? thanks for the detailed comment, I appreciate it!
Will do! Thanks Jason i'd enjoy that. working in tobacco when i was a kid is about as close as I ever got to farming but I've always been interested in it
I just got done pinching off my suckers from my 40 tomato plants a few days ago. My suckers ranged from half an inch long up to maybe 3 or 4 inches long. My plants are a bit smaller than yours as I just transplanted them outdoors a few weeks ago.
Nice! We sucker every plant every week all season long. We normally don’t bother with the little ones under an inch long but once they’re 2 to 4 inches long we definitely wanna remove them because if we don’t the next week they will be over a foot-long and by then they are taking away from the plant and fruit. Of course, I am referring to our greenhouse tomato plants that are in determinants, we don’t sucker our determinate field plants… the only thing we do with them is remove the bottom three branches before they set fruit, and if there is a sucker coming out in that area, we will take it off as well.
Wow, your plants have grown in leaps and bounds. When I sucker, I remove even the tiny suckers with a snips that has a knife edge on the outside edges. I also keep two leaves on the main sucker under the fruit cluster. This puts a couple leaves above the fruit cluster to help shade the fruit, sunshine on fruit will cause the fruit to ripen too quickly giving less than perfect fruit interior, ie hard white areas. Keeping the fruit cool is the main reason I put two or three coats of liquid shade on all my tomato houses. My Big Beef + are just starting to bloom, I get started later so I don't have to spend money on heating houses and I don't have elongated fruit cluster stems from lower light levels earlier in the year. I start applying shade when the fruit get to 75 % size. I leave four tomatoes per cluster as Big Beef have huge fruit. Glad to hear you found some help, mine fell through and I'm worried I will be short on help this year.
Good points. Yeah our first planting is on cluster number five and about 8 feet tall now. At least the elongation only happens for a few weeks and now there’s plenty of sun so it shouldn’t happen anymore. For me to be successful selling tomatoes during May June and July before the field tomatoes come on I have to spend about 7 to $8000 in propane, but it’s a very small price to pay for the amount of profit I will make during those three months before anyone in Ohio has Tomatoes. I’ve never used the liquid shade, we have put a 35% white shade cloth on in the past, but that was 15 years ago. Once we get to August we’re done picking them and we top the plants and they are terminated by Labor Day because of how many Tomatoes we are picking in the field at that time. I know you told me where you’re from but I’m assuming it’s much further south than me? thanks for the detailed comment, I appreciate it!
@@wishwellfarmsI 'm across the river from Cincinnati in Aurora Ind.
Those tomatoes have really grown the last couple of weeks. They’re looking great!
Thanks Mike! Yeah today we had to lower them for the first time this season, they’re about 7 ft tall and the 4th cluster is forming fruit.
Wow look at the beautiful tomato s
Thanks for the video bro!
You bet, thanks for watching
Your a champ sir
Thanks!
thanks!
You’re welcome!
if i lived closer id come help you for free just to learn some stuff. some great looking tomato plants
Well, if you ever happen to find yourself up in my neck of the woods, be sure to reach out and I’ll give you a tour!
Will do! Thanks Jason i'd enjoy that. working in tobacco when i was a kid is about as close as I ever got to farming but I've always been interested in it
I just got done pinching off my suckers from my 40 tomato plants a few days ago. My suckers ranged from half an inch long up to maybe 3 or 4 inches long. My plants are a bit smaller than yours as I just transplanted them outdoors a few weeks ago.
Nice! We sucker every plant every week all season long. We normally don’t bother with the little ones under an inch long but once they’re 2 to 4 inches long we definitely wanna remove them because if we don’t the next week they will be over a foot-long and by then they are taking away from the plant and fruit. Of course, I am referring to our greenhouse tomato plants that are in determinants, we don’t sucker our determinate field plants… the only thing we do with them is remove the bottom three branches before they set fruit, and if there is a sucker coming out in that area, we will take it off as well.
Where did you get those j hooks?
I got those from A.M.A. Horticulture in Ontario, but any hydroponic supply store should carry them or something similar.