Posted by SKYBOW on June 12, 2012 at 08:35:11 from (207.199.232.2):
In Reply to: pruning tomatos posted by 5020s rock on June 12, 2012 at 02:19:09:
Indeterminate tomato plants are actually a vine that will continue to grow until killed by frost or disease. The suckers are other vines the plant produces to keeps itself going. Getting rid of the suckers concentrates the nutrients and water into the main vine which produces all the seeds(Tomatoes). By staking and suckering tomatoes you concentrate the plant down to what is going to produce the most tomatoes for the amount of time you are letting the vine live. Staking and suckering also opens up the plant to the sunlight which is essential for tomatoes and it allows the air to get to the plant which help reduce the chance of molds, mildews, and other fungus diseases that attack tomatoes. As a kid 14-17yrs old, I worked on a tomato farm on the back of the Ohio river in Meigs County Ohio. We sold tomatoes for eating not for canning-those are a different type of tomato. There were 5 farms within about 5 miles of each other. They took advantage of the fertile river bottom soil. Down river a few miles there was another stretch of tomato farms. The last year that I worked there we had 125,000 individual plants, each one staked,tied and sucker. All the farms had 75,000 to 125,000 plants. Every tomato was picked by had, transported to the packing house and packed in boxes by hand, then loaded by hand on a semi at the end of the day. I routinely worked 14 hour days till the truck was loaded and things made ready for the next days picking. We had 20 kids working for the summer season. We received $1.25 an hour with no overtime. Six days a week was the norm during picking season which only lasted 4 to 6 weeks. We also shipped sweetcorn to market too.
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