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Re: Pruning Tomatoes?

Do I recall someone telling recently of alternating there pruning from
main stem to sucker to sucker to sucker.............? In other words,
prune the main stem above the first sucker so that the sucker becomes the
main stem, then prune that sucker above the nest sucker and use it as the
main stem,and so on to the top of the trellis. I don't see the point in
doing this but it sounded like an interesting experiment. Has anyone
actually tried it ?

oldjohn@juno.com
John Orwick
El Monte, CA


On Thu, 1 May 1997 08:33:10 EST William N Ryan <wnryan@JUNO.COM> writes:
>On Thu, 1 May 1997 07:26:33 -0400 Matt Green
><Matthew_Green/WAS/Lotus@LOTUS.COM> writes: >Excuse my lack of
>knowledge on gardening, but what exactly are suckers
>>on
>>tomatoes??
>
>        Suckers are new stems that arrise from the junction ("crotch")
>of
>the main        stem and branch.  Many gardeners let the first
>(lowest) sucker grow to  produce a two vined plant, but most remove
>all subsequent suckers,
>Bill o;-)
>
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