These suckers appear in the crotch between the stem and a branch.
I also search the plant during the growing season for ‘suckers’ that are not going to develop into a stem. If you want more fruit, try pruning to four main stems. This pruning method will usually produce larger but fewer fruits. I do this pruning early in the growing season to keep the plants contained and to keep them from taking over the tomato patch. My advice for pruning indeterminate types is to prune them back to two main stems. Many indeterminate types will produce as many as 10 or more stems. Researchers at Purdue University found that pruning, namely, removing branches below the first main stem, increased the average fruit weight in some cases but not the total yield for each plant. Since an indeterminate tomato will have blossoms and fruit throughout its entire life pruning is the best way to contain the plant since these tomatoes grow unchecked. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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