Side Green - Tomato Growing Tips - Pruning - Critical care in the cultivation of tomatoes are cut shoots water useless. If the shoots are left, then the tomatoes will be small because the water shoots take the nutrients required by tomato.
Pruning tomato plants in the figure below, will produce tomatoes that much, but it took longer than the period of harvest tomatoes maintaining only the main branch only (single stem).
Here is a picture of how pruning tomato plants:
Pruning tomato plants in the figure below, will produce tomatoes that much, but it took longer than the period of harvest tomatoes maintaining only the main branch only (single stem).
Here is a picture of how pruning tomato plants:
The following image is a water shoots need to be removed on tomato plants, especially those grown under the main branch.
Trimming leaves Old
Pruning is usually done when the old leaves of tomato has been fruitful. The leaves that are under the branches of fruit should be cut off. Usually flower / fruit tomatoes will appear near the main branch. When the tomatoes are already bearing fruit, the leaves under the fruit stalk has no use, as it will only absorb the nutrients needed by the tomatoes to grow bigger. So in order to concentrate nutrients for fertilization, then the leaves are thrown away, leaving the upper leaves for photosynthesis.
Spacing leaves
When the fungus has attacked the plant, we have to do a leaf thinning so that the spread of the fungus is not rampant. In addition, in order to look beautiful plants. Farmers often do pruning leaves near the stem of the leaf that is not about tomatoes. The goal is that no caterpillar / disease on the leaves which moved into the fruit, so the plants more productive.