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| Hey all I accidentally pinched out the growing tip of a tomato seedling I was planting today. I'm not sure if I should just leave it alone or throw the plant out. There is a sucker starting to develop right below where the growing tip was. Will the plant pump all its energy into this stem and have that function as the main steam from now on? |
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| Probably. Depends in part on if it is a determinate or an indeterminate variety. Dave |
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- Posted by Christacharlene 6 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 19, 14 at 23:12
| It will probably be fine. I broke off the entire top half of a cherokee purple plant last year when I was caging it. It grew back and produced as good as the other Cherokee Purple plants in my garden. |
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| @digdirt Thanks. For full disclosure, the variety is Momotaro, so it's an indeterminate. Would this make it more or less likely to grow back? |
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| There is a sucker starting to develop right below where the growing tip was %%%%%%%%%% You have already provided the answer to your own question. Your plant will be bushy, lacking the main stem. In reality, you have topped it by accident. . |
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| My baby ripped all three stalks off my aunt ruby's german green -- straight to the soil. It grew back but it looked like a lost cause for a couple of weeks. Also if you pinch the top of an indeterminant plant just once it wont make the whole plant automatically bushy... you'd have to allow all of the joints to grow suckers for that. |
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