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Grafted cherry tomato in container with too many stems!

brokenankle
9 years ago

Hi friends,

This is my second year balcony/container gardening. I'm growing a blush Tiger grafted tomato, and its...well....growing!
(For what its worth, all my containers are Ikea-hacked sub-irrigated planters. The one in the picture is this one: http://goo.gl/y6bFRv , to give you an idea of size)

I was single-stem pruning it, but somehow several stems have shot up from the base of the plant, and it's becoming slightly unmanageable. I think I have about 4-5 stems in addition to the main stem.

So I have two questions:

1. Should I cut off the (very developed) stems, or at least their growth tip? If so, how many?

2. The main stem is about to reach the top of the stake -- do I just let it fall after it reaches the top?

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