Should You Top off Indeterminate Tomatoes?

On the other hand, indeterminate tomatoes, which includes many of the heirloom varieties, continue growing until fall frost and can grow 6 feet or more in a single season. Pruning back or topping the plant prevents upward growth and diverts the plant's energy into producing fuller lateral stems.

What happens if you top an indeterminate tomato plant?

On the other hand, indeterminate tomatoes, which includes many of the heirloom varieties, continue growing until fall frost and can grow 6 feet or more in a single season. Pruning back or topping the plant prevents upward growth and diverts the plant's energy into producing fuller lateral stems.

Should you top indeterminate tomatoes?

Determinate tomatoes are varieties that always produce the same number of stalks and mature fruit in a metered cycle each year. A group of University of Maryland horticulturalists recommends pruning indeterminate tomato plants so that only one to three stalks are present.

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