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| Hello, I have been, with great success, training my tomato plants as a single stem up a rope. I am going to continue with my single main stem approach. But I have considered allowing one or two low suckers to grow a bit and then bend/bury them into the ground so that they provide the plant with more root structure...provide additional stability, nutrients, and moisture to the plant. Have any of you tried this and, if so, what was the result? More/less production? Thanks. |
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- Posted by bmoser z6PA (b2m2@moserproduce.com) on Tue, May 13, 14 at 20:14
| Your efforts thus far are sound but the merits of what you might attempt to do are questionable. Everyone has those ground-level suckers which actually do develop roots but the benifits to the mother plant are more doubtful- like planting 2 plants together. If you remove those suckers and insert them in growing media - (I did 48 this morning in 5 minutes before going to a farmers' market) then in a few weeks you can replant them as rooted plants at a reasonable spacing; I use 23" in-row spacing this year for single stem plants in high tunnels. Square foot yields are hard to beat using that method. |
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