How to Prune and Stake Tomato Plants Guide & Identifying Tomato 'Suckers" - Tons of Clear Examples

Timestamps. Learn how to bottom prune tomato plants for airflow. Learn how to single, double, and triple stem prune tomato plants. Basic tomato staking and tomato 'sucker' identification.

45:43 TAKE the 'TOMATO SUCKER ID' TEST - Can You ID and Pass?

0:00 Tomato Pruning Intro & Overview
1:52 Tomato 'Sucker' vs Production Stems
2:39 Indeterminate Tomatoes Get Staked and Pruned
3:31 Cherry Tomatoes and 'Suckers'
4:40 Identifying & Removing Tomato 'Suckers'
7:14 Why Do We Prune? or Keep or Remove 'Suckers'?
10:09 Single, Double, & Triple Stem Pruning Basics
15:29 Bottom Leaf Pruning
17:55 Basic Multi Stem Pruning
24:23 (Real Time) Complete Tomato Plant Pruning
31:35 Tomato Leaf Disease Overview
32:35 Example 1 Before and After Pruning
34:10 Example 2 Before and After Pruning
36:11 Cherry Tomato Pruning Overview
37:57 Cherry Tomato Cattle Panel Trellising
40:29 Before & After Cherry Tomato Pruning and Cattle Panel Weave
42:54 Supplies for Tomato Staking
45:43 TAKE the 'SUCKER ID' TEST - Can You ID and Pass?
48:25 Anti-fungal Spraying

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