This year I'm using Miracle Grow potting mix. I'm also pruning virtually all the suckers to keep them to a single stem. I'm curious what factors (pruning, fertilizer ratios) might impact the number of fruits per truss, and I'm wondering if I'm going to compromise the size/quality too much by letting all the pollinated flowers develop. I hate to lose fruit by thinning the truss, but I also don't want 20 golf ball sized Kosovos that aren't very good. I also assume that the growing tips coming off the truss are going to sap a lot of energy that could go into the fruit.

See the pics. In the first one, that's all one giant truss, including 2 tips marked.

Here are examples of how the cluster look today. Most of the blossoms set fruit - some of the clusters had 8-12 blossoms. The fruit size appears to be developing fine - but you can make the decision to prune blossoms based on our plants if you like. Based on the size of our fruit - I would recommend that you let them grow.

Not all blossoms on a truss will set fruits, just an internal control.

I never prune suckers , many reasons why I don't, and after growing now about 3,600 different varieties i just let the plants do their own thing.

If I were growing for fruit size for competition, for example, which I don't, I'd leave only a fruit or two on each truss, but that's the only time I'd do that, and as I said, I don't do it.

Carolyn