how's it going everyone so I just wanted to make a quick video about how and why
you should train and prune your tomato plants so my tomato that I'm growing in
the container in the root pouch the Mortgage lifter tomato that is growing
really really well especially now that the weather start and warm up it's
putting on lots of leafy growth lots of flowers and lots of new shoots so I'll
be taking you over there and sort of showing you how you should train and prune
your tomato plants and along with that I'll also be explaining why you should
be doing that as well so we'll pop on over to the tomato and I will get
started on explaining and also showing you how to do it okay so here we have my
Mortgage lifter tomato in the root pouch as you can see it's getting quite big it
really needs some support which is one reason for training just to give us some
support because it's quite a vigorous grower and he's putting on lots of
leaves and as you can see at the top here lots of flowers and all these side
shoots as well so that really the first thing I'm going to be doing is training
it and that is by getting some big stakes here hammering into the ground
and I'm going to be choosing two main leaders so I'm going to be choosing this
shoot as one of the main leaders and the second one as the main leaders so first
I'll hammer the stakes into the ground and get them in position
okay so now I'm just going to be tying the two main leaders to the stakes and
with me I've just got a bit of yarn it's best if you have more of an elastic
based sort of string or material like fabric that you can use to tie around
its way it won't rub against the plant as much and also as the stems get a bit
thicker it does Bend and give way for that so there's going to be tying two
pieces of yarn around each stake not very tightly though just loose enough so
it can sort of be supported from the stake but not so tight that it can like
will cut into the stem
okay so now I'm going to be pruning the tomatoes now first I'll just give a few
reasons why I prune Tomatoes and why you should print in Tomatoes as well
first of all you actually don't really need to prune tomatoes but I like to do
it because one reason is just to keep it tidy and neat the tomatoes now have
their two main leaders and I'll be pruning off pretty much everything else
that is growing so not only does it keep it neat but it also puts all the energy
into these two main leaders so they're strong and produce a lot of fruit also
another reason for pruning is to remove all the leaves again this way that the
plant will focus on putting its energy into fruit production and not the
foliage pruning also helps to increase the size of the tomatoes that you get
you really actually don't lose much fruit you might get some more but they
will be a lot smaller compared to if you do prune you might get just a few a
couple less but they will be much bigger so that way you get bigger fruit
production as well and then thirdly another reason why you should prune is
to maintain a good airflow of the plant and this helps to prevent any pests and
diseases coming and attacking your plant so at the moment it's a bit scraggly and
if I keep unpruned it will continue to just keep on getting bigger and bushier
and that way not a lot of light and airflow will get through so it'll be a
lot more humid and that way pests especially things like aphids or
mealy bug they can come and really attack the plant or the plant could get
a disease such as powdery mildew or something like that and it can really
affect the plant's growth and its fruit production so what I'll be doing as I
said before is just pruning off all of the leaves and all of these shoots as
well just to make sure that the only thing that is really growing is these
main two leaders
so there you go guys that is how to train and prune your tomato cleanse
now these two mean leaders they've got a lot of growth to go on these steaks
probably about fifty or sixty centimeters or so or about one and a
half to two feet of growth until they reach the top so these guys have plenty
of time and space to produce some really big tomatoes now
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