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What to do with these? Remove them i guess? I haven’t noticed them as been so busy and some are actually quite large!
Still can’t complain as i thought I wouldn’t have any tomatoes after my spring wilting scare – all of them have recovered and are all doing really well
Last year, I grew a Shirley plant with two vigorous main leaders. I got 5 trusses on each. Then a new plant grew out the side and I got a further 3 trusses of good sized tomatoes from that.
Some tomatoes strains seem quite good at risk management – when they have secured the first wave of fruit to a good size, they reckon they can go for broke and have a second lot, since they will spread their seed at season’s end no matter what.
Just found this quote online –
We were fascinated by Joe Maiden’s article in Kitchen Garden (January 2012 issue) where he described how he accidentally created a multi-cordon Sungold tomato plant,when one of the plants fell out of its box prior to planting and snapped off the growing point of the stem. The plant grew sideshoots, which Joe decided to train as cordons, creating a multi-stemmed tomato plant. He removed the side shoots that grew from these new stems and ended up with a 60-truss plant by the end of the season!”
Could it be worth a try?
It’s easy to grow single tomato plant with many stems, but the plant needs space, sun and space again to dry as fast as possible. Main problem with multistemmed tomatoes growing togheter is disease, that’s why we mostly grow them as single stem plants. But yes, insted of 5 plants growing in an area, you can have one plant with 5 stems and it will need the same amount of space above and below soil.
I agree that these anecdotes sometimes ought to mention more detail of, in this case, soil and space required. You can indeed have multi-stemmed tomatoes if you have lots of space, but growing one stem at normal spacing is probably easier in the end.
Yes, and growing more plants means you don’t put all eggs in one basket.
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