Grow More Tomatoes NOT LEAVES!!!

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@brownguy9920 8 месяцев назад

No leaves=no energy There's a balance 😊

@Ana.Banana.77 Год назад

This method does not work in very hot zones. I live in 9b and my plants need their leaves to keep the plant cool

@alainafleming5729 Год назад

Thank you I was just about to try this and thank goodness I saw your comment

@Ana.Banana.77 Год назад

@@alainafleming5729 I definitely recommend pruning your tomatoes to encourage good air flow but just not as aggressively as this video. Good luck on your garden ! 🍅

@kqdwills Год назад

@@Ana.Banana.77 The pruning in this short clip was overdone. Surely we need to prune some leaves off to concentrate the nutrients to the fruits, and creating space for air flow, sun light for the fruits...., but not to this level. The leaves are the plant's factories to provide nutrients to the plants. If they've cut off, then the food source to the plants will be gone. The already existed tomato fruits will be ripen , but they won't produce more new fruits.

@kimberlyearly8918 Год назад

@@kqdwills I've watched hundreds of gardening videos and I've NEVER seen anybody prune like this! It didn't look he had tons of to me!

@kelleymcbride4633 Год назад

I live in central Texas we get up to 110° with 80% humidity in late summer and this method works great here. We grow them in ground with trellises and we have a soaker hose watering system we use twice a week. Hope this helps!

@VOTE.AMERICA Год назад

I advise everyone watching this to do more research and experiments because this method does not work with all varieties or in all climates.

@fancyIOP Месяц назад

Yeah I’m in super sunny South Africa and I cannot be having cherry tomato trees looking like that. They look sad, but for me on my side I’m new to growing them… I’m just going to cut out the leaves and branches at the bottom only to avoid soil splashing all over them. I hope I get lots of fruits, I have like 8+ trees growing now, still babies though. Planning to can 20 bottles or so.

@cristinad4835 Год назад

The leaves produce the food for tomatoes.

@alexmaier2970 Год назад

Depens because sucker's can be really bad because they get tomatoes too early and too many tomatoes overall

@branwhite4973 2 месяца назад

They do.. it's a balance. It's similar to the rocket equation.. the more fuel you need to push the rocket ( the fruit) the more you fuel you need to support the added fuel.... like everything in life and the universe, it's about balance

@puckerfist6621 Год назад

I did this and it slowed production and stressed my tomatoes out, id still prune it but only the lower leaves not so much

@user-re8rl5mg7c Год назад

I do trim my tomato plant leaves but not to this extreme. Plant need leaves to protect the fruit from sun. Also, leaves are the major player of photosynthesis to make the plant healthy.

@brokenarrow6491 Год назад

Single stem does not multiply your harvest. You actually get less tomatoes but they grow a little bigger. The main reason you do that is to have better air flow which helps with fungus and disease. You need enough foliage to keep the tomatoes from getting sun scald.

@chinaskibukowski7747 Год назад

The one plant you don't add to the compost pile is tomatoes. They are arguably the greatest carrier of blight, verticillium wilt, fusarium, powdery mildew, etc. In all likelihood it will contaminate your compost. And as many people have pointed out: Don't prune so heavily in hotter zones. Also, if you live in an area with longer hot seasons you don't have to pick all the sucker branches because they will have time to develop fruit.

@garysmith7832 2 месяца назад

It's already in your soil. So it's not a big deal

@Gottacacheemalll 10 месяцев назад

I just pruned all the leaves from my plant. Did I mess up?

@RJones-mx2oi 9 месяцев назад

So glad i came across thia very civilized, uet, passionate, DISCUSSION. Ypu all are to be commended. I grow a couple of varioties on patio. My issue has been the earliest sunlight it gets is just before 2pm. So, the tomatoes plants tend to get leggy. As a novice grower, i did cut the leaves to this extent on one of my experimental plants. It is still producing tomatoes for the moment. I am in NC and brought my plants in to protect from the subfreezing temps. They responded quite well. The other one is cherry tomatoes and it's definitely putting out fruits. I didn't prune this plant as much leaving a few stems and leaves that show the flowers. With the liquid fertilizer in the water, it's thriving okay. The real experiment is to see if the cherry will produce through the winter.

@joansmith6844 Год назад

I luv tge smell of tomato 🍅 plants 🌱

@bakedatassup 5 месяцев назад

I don't feel like I hear gardeners talk about using suckered as clones enough. You can turn 1 plant into 20 easily.

@rebekkaswan 2 месяца назад

Cool, thanks! I’ve never heard that

@fancyIOP Месяц назад

I think seeds are easier to grow than doing cloning. I remember I tried cloning with a cannabis and avocado stems, it was a mission that failed but they all showed signs of success maybe had I done things better. For me personally seeds will take the stress off me.

@douglasturner7443 Месяц назад

@fancyIOP Cloning tomatoes is far easier than those. Just trim off the big leaves, stick them in a jar of water and put them out of direct sun. Roots in a week.

@fancyIOP Месяц назад

@@douglasturner7443I’ll try it soon and get back to you… I hope all goes well as you are saying.

@TheRTrizzy Месяц назад

Whats the point of cloning suckers if my garden is already full?

@mikebertsch8747 Год назад

Do not do this to determinate tomato plants

@truckywuckyuwu Год назад

Don't do this to any tomatoes, just prune inner growth so there's airflow. Remove diseased leaves. And when you have about 4 weeks before harvest. Take off all new growth so that the plant can focus on the tomatoes.

@f_homo-s 3 месяца назад

@@truckywuckyuwuNot pruning any suckers is very bad. If you live in a cool zone at about 7 or less, you can and should do what this guy does in the video. 8 and 9 you should double stem(prune all suckers except one) and in 10+ you should triple stem. All growth on the bottom foot of the plant should be pruned entirely once the plant gets to about 54 inches tall

@BMWclubb Год назад

I did this one year to my tomatoes and pepper plants. Got a such a low harvest that it was a joke. This year ive left all leaves except take put a few of the early suckers and they are producing more flowers amd bigger fruit

@ERMAV Год назад

I let my plants grow 2 to 3 suckers. This results in 2-3x more tomatoes. Don’t believe me? Try for yourself:)

@GnorfOlfenkolf 2 месяца назад

Everyone who recommends aggressive pruning and removing suckers never experienced how much better it is to letting them grow. Evety leaf produces sugar and energy for delicious fruits and every sucker gives more leaves and fruits

@TimmyJacobs-jl6mo 2 месяца назад

What does my leaves curl up and what do I need to do to prevent it thanks enjoy your chanel 👍

@AldousHuxley7 2 месяца назад

30% shade cloth if its high 90s

@aligavary1160 Год назад

Doesn’t that expose the tomatoes to direct sun and cause sun scalding?

@Angie-jg4nz Год назад

Yes, it can. Especially with 115 degree days.

@aligavary1160 Год назад

@@Angie-jg4nz yeah, I never understand this method. It may work in greenhouse because the direct sun is limited.

@Razzy-sr4oq Год назад

@@Angie-jg4nz It can do that with even 80 degree days (zone 5b where I am.) All it takes is that pounding sun to screw them over and you have horribly scarred and cracked tomats. I don't get this method.

@yunoyukki7344 2 месяца назад

@@Angie-jg4nz tomatoes will never survive 115 degrees direct sunlight. They dont even like above 80 degrees direct sunlight. tomatoes are shade loving plants.

@oldkingcrow777 Год назад

Dont do this guys 😂 Leaves are what generate energy FOR the tomatoes. You can absolutely cut off new blooms to allow thr plant to focus, but that's debatable within gardening. A good enough plant with good enough soil can and should give you the large fruit AND bountiful. I have a nice type of cherry tomato growing, left it to go "natural" and in that 2 gallon pot there have to be 70+ golfballs on there right now...

@elsancho-mx7om Год назад

Exactly, that's why on my pear tree i thin out the fruit so that each one has enough leaves around it to feed it.

@elsancho-mx7om 10 месяцев назад

@jenniferdiane82 sounds like you're doing something wrong. Maybe too much nitrogen

@elsancho-mx7om 10 месяцев назад

@jenniferdiane82 from whatever is in your soil........ maybe you used the wrong fertilizer one with too much nitrogen or your soil could just be naturally nitrogen rich. You'll see 3 numbers on your fertilizer 15-15-15 is a basic balance I use at the beginning of the season then i switch to a 5-15-10 once they start producing flowers or to encourage flower production on plants that aren't flowering. If a plant isn't doing what it should be doing it because your doing something wrong.

@rtshaw3621 Год назад

tomatoes can get sunburned. Damaging to your fruit some leaves are necessary.

@louyou6614 Год назад

Genuine question Don't plant photosynthesis with leaves ? So when you take out the leave you take away the energy

@alf3071 Год назад

I think the same

@completeandabsolutenerd Год назад

Absolutely agree.

@Lily_of_the_valley_77 Год назад

Im certainly not doing what he said. My brandy wine is 7 foot. Still growing. It is beautiful and smells so good. So many tomatoes are growing on it.

@nfa45 Год назад

This method does work very well but I think in this specific case you have trimmed off too many leaves. I believe its only necessary to trim off the bottom 18-24 inches or so to encourage air flow and keep the leaves from touching the soil, reducing chance of disease, ect. You can even leave a couple suckers on and let them get big without loosing volume or quality. This is my experience in zone 6b

@MoreWaveLessParticle 2 месяца назад

Would this also apply to cherry tomato plants as well? Thanks.

@GardenisLife Год назад

To the people saying not in hot places, yes, you need to utilize a shade cloth, and this method, and u will produce wildly more tomatoes.

@AntiUttp918 6 месяцев назад

I had 2 stems. It was still a lot of fruit more than one stem

@TheBeachesandshores Год назад

My plants are producing about 5x the tomatoes. I trellis them out on a fence. Not sure if you want to destroy that much of the plant.

@TOPMOSTPOP Год назад

that looks like a chicken after a tornado. more leaves more flavor no?

@BackyardGardensOfTidewater Год назад

Your tomatoes look great!

@thequantaleaper Месяц назад

How late can you usually plant a sucker of about that size and still get ripening tomatoes in somewhere like the southern US? I want fall harvest tomatoes!

@PhonkinPlants 3 месяца назад

I bush out my tomatoes plants and harvest is delayed but i get more tomatoes than i know what to do with. Ive been gardening foe about 15 years on and off but im now getting serious about it. Im a Noob Tuber so my channel is new (i created it years ago but did nothing with it) so i appreciate and advice and people subs. Happy gardening my fellow gardeners!

@Paytonmarques34 3 месяца назад

I do the same thing

@sarah9314 2 месяца назад

How often do you water??

@simpdefelipell Год назад

That's not necessary, only cut the inferior leaves to avoid powdery mildew, miliu, etc. But the higher ones besides of making a beautiful plant it protects the tomatoes from wind and sunburns

@AlissaPaige91 Месяц назад

Can I do this when it's about 80-90 outside

@kristencatherine746 Месяц назад

But what do you do with them after the season??? Compost ?!? Or … idk I’m so confused like obviously this is specifically for harvesting . But can I keep my plant for years ?? And still get tomatoes?? Cause I grew my seeds for the first time , with passion ….

@branwhite4973 2 месяца назад

I am doing this the first time... I used to get wayy too many tomatoes so I hope all this advice makes me have waayyyyyyy too many tomatoes.

@darksidedsoonnelson2522 2 месяца назад

I’ve never trimmed any of my tomatoes and they are always big?. Determinate and indeterminate ones. The only thing I do is trim the leaves below so they do not touch the ground and that’s it.

@jennylegrande1240 Месяц назад

I tried this in OK and it did not work. I am finally getting new leaves and flowers but have zero tomatoes.

@violettaosagie9471 2 месяца назад

Everything must be balanced. This way make it easier for birds and other animals to get a very quick meal.

@raul4420 Год назад

This is wrong for many reasons. You should only cut the leaves at the base of the plant if they start to turn yellow or if they touch the soil. Ideally you would not remove more than 2 leaves at a time and you should use a disinfected pair of scissors. Generally, if the leaves are healthy, they produce energy rather than consume. When you remove so msny leaves, the plant gets a shock, and it ripens the fruits faster in the detriment of taste. This is something you can do at the end of the season when, for example, you know cold weather is close by, and you want the last fruits to ripen quickly. If you care about taste and flavour, don't remove the lesves. In conclusion, as long as the growing season is not in the last month, the leaves are healthy and not touching the soil, don't remove them.

@IzanamiYama Год назад

10 months later - would you still recommend this method? Maybe a video of fruit size and a quantity comparison between both methods.

@ExpeditionHomestead Год назад

Absolutely! I get more healthy fruit with less disease. Have been doing this method for YEARS!

@nathanielbravo4464 Год назад

It's simply awesomeness 😊

@stripersniper1531 3 месяца назад

The leaves are there for a reason.You need leaves in hot zones.

@007cambon 8 месяцев назад

Single stemming is ridiculous , you need foliage for energy the plants get their energy from the leaves dufus

@micobatawan8701 Месяц назад

So where does the plant get the energy to grow the fruit?😂 this must be the free energy their talking about🤣

@lieseambrose3461 8 месяцев назад

Howbdo you propagate a sucker on tomato plant??

@antonioaugusto5041 7 месяцев назад

Never ever cut down all the leaves of any tomato or fruit plants ever.

@MrMawnster 11 месяцев назад

Depends on the time on the season. If you want to maximize fruit the plants need their solar panels tbh. That's what you do late game.

@TerrapinStation 2 месяца назад

What about sun scald? Be careful if you’re in the south and try this. I don’t disagree with the video but if you live in a hot climate those extra leaves are your best friend.

@thecam0073 Месяц назад

great. the direct opposite of what other RU-vidrs say.

@lucask4330 Год назад

There isn’t any good evidence this helps. Just let them grow free!

@MarkO-im7lc Год назад

Save some suckers, they make fruit.

@jakebeard2099 2 месяца назад

I’d be pissed of my tomatoes only produced 7 tomatoes I wouldn’t say that’s a success

@6n100-ent Месяц назад

Don't prune your tomatoes this aggressively if you live in 9b, i live in 9b, and i need these leaves to keep my plant cool from our SUPER hot weather. It's been triple digits all week (105-111), and my plants died last year when i tried to follow this tip. Seems like we need a gardener from 9b to show these 5-7 zoners how we do it [maybe i'll do some videos next week]

@zoyyay 3 месяца назад

Single-stemming your tomatoes in the hopes of getting more tomatoes is a myth. Pruning off tomato suckers (which potentially turn into production stems) will do the opposite and reduce your harvest significantly. Only prune off your suckers if you want bigger tomatoes (unless it’s a cherry tomato, in that case pruning off the suckers will make no difference in the size of the fruit), space concerns, and/or support concerns. If you think the suckers will rob energy of the plant, that isn’t true either. As the suckers produce leaves, those said leaves will photosynthesise light for the plant, providing more energy for the plant. Only remove suckers for the reasons above.

@seangoff9578 Год назад

Wait, aren’t the leaves what gather the sun’s energy?? More leaves technically means more energy collection. Don’t believe me? Explain how Having fewer solar panels makes more energy. It doesn’t. Your plant gets energy from the sun and the leaves are the mechanism for capturing that energy.

@rebekkaswan 2 месяца назад

Don’t the leaves soak in the sun? And produce chlorophyll and help the plant grow?

@california3186 Год назад

Nice!!!

@lizxu322 10 месяцев назад

Doesn't work every time, sorry bud

@sharonllewellyn1110 Год назад

Thiis is not truth. U are getting less tomatoes when u do that. I have a tomatoe plant. Never even took of a leaf. I have been giving away so much tomatoes and preserving tomatoes for months. And i still got lots of tomatoes on it.

@garysmith7832 2 месяца назад

Just use shade cloth

@debramurphy4295 2 месяца назад

My tomatoes are just getting taller not setting onhave blooms

@completeandabsolutenerd Год назад

Ngl this seems really dumb. I'm not an experienced gardener but idk why one would need to do this. Unless the leaves are close to the soil and risk infection, idk why someone would need to waste their time. The leaves aren't "wasting energy", they're actually creating so much more for more tomatoes. The photosynthesis in the chloroplasts of the cell leads to cellular respiration (production of ATP energy in the cells), and therefore plant productivity. Please provide some more substantial evidence as to why someone would want to waste their afternoon cutting leaves off of tomato plants

@Julie_77777 Месяц назад

They need to go back to school and learn about photosynthesis. I always wonder why they don't cut off the leaves of potatoes, cucumbers, apple tree, cherry tree and all the others? Why tomatoes?

@BB-gu9kx 3 месяца назад

Looks like the tomatoes was already growing good before he wacked the leaves off. That definitely won't work in Texas Lol

@radwansoueidan6390 Год назад

Please dont do this people its such a ridiculous myth that has somehow turned into common garden knowledge, i did this method for 4 tomato plants this season, and decided to leave the rest of them alone without fucking with them. I shit you not the plants that were untouched had main stems twice as thick with huge leaves compared to the pruned ones. Fruit was off the chain and even tasted way sweeter despite being the same variety. All i did when pruning tomatoes was set them back each time i removed a sucker, none of that energy is magically redirected to the fruit it just becomes lost and then the plant is going to use whatever energy it has left to keep making suckers because they are genetically driven to produce MORE fruit not bigger and sweeter fruit, thats why suckers will continue to grow no matter how much you prune and

@dennispauley171 Год назад

Why does my tamato plant look like a upside down ice cream cone ?

@rollercoastercentral0808 2 месяца назад

If you do this in Toronto you will definitely destroy the plant as it gets super hot here

@Bluegrasshero Год назад

This is not the way to do it. Thinning the leaves is good, but you have nearly defoliated the entire plant. Too much is not always the best. Then you say you use the cut leaves for compost which will be contaminated with disease like septoria leaf spot?

@ExpeditionHomestead Год назад

Nope, this way works better than any other tomatoes I’ve grown before. They grew to about 12’ tall and gave us over 50 giant tomatoes per plant. Don’t knock it till you try it :) I throw absolutely everything into the compost, with some mycorrhizal fungi you’ll never have to worry about it after a year of composting

@johnthroop2092 Год назад

What he is doing is hurting his plants not helping them! Photosynthesis uses the leaves that he is removing to feed the plant! The fruit cannot get bigger without food! I have personally tried this before on other types of plants and it will not work, in the end you have a very small harvest which likely better off not even worth harvesting!

@JustinMentionedIt Год назад

If you keep cutting all the flowers off you don’t have any fruit

@nwinachannel4319 Год назад

❤❤❤

@joophunt5569 3 месяца назад

Some tomatoes plants not all

@fish4thedish Год назад

cannabis pruning 101

@K.Kernea 11 месяцев назад

Do not do 😂

@TJPoppy 2 месяца назад

I don’t think so.

@em34327 Год назад

Tomatoeply, should be a new word

@J-Ball Год назад

LOL! Good grief

@lavvy2585 2 года назад

Ohhhh Kayyyy so no bio.

@ExpeditionHomestead 2 года назад

This will Revolutionize the way YOU Grow Tomatoes! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XjKvP9Bwqog.html

@user-qt1jv5gd8h 3 месяца назад

They will burn up in NW AR

@margotmclaughlin9838 2 месяца назад

Do not do this. Tomatoes are meant to be vines and foliage with tomatoes throughout them

@KentuckyBred9 6 дней назад

Nah

@chk3700 Месяц назад

No you cannot . 🧐

@adamgibson7903 2 месяца назад

Your plants don't look great. I prune some from the bottom, but that looks butchered.

@drholt2 2 месяца назад

Bad advice. NEVER compost tomato plants or clippings.

@ExpeditionHomestead 2 месяца назад

Not true at all. Common misconception that composting them will spread blight or other diseases. After a year of composting the only thing determining this is good ole Mother Nature

@hjogr9611 Месяц назад

Nope.not true. DO UR RESEARCH ON THIS

@cdtemporal2870 2 месяца назад

A really super sad plant

@elsancho-mx7om Год назад

Leaves produce the energy......

@czechlessonswithmarcela9963 9 месяцев назад

Yes, photosynthesis happens in leaves. We need leaves on our tomatoes. Plus, tomato leaves don't produce the best compost...

@duart310 Год назад

Will this help my plants fruit? They’re about 3.5 ft tall and have done everything to pollinate but no fruit has set for a month

@louisacapell Год назад

No, it won't.

@cristinad4835 Год назад

The leaves make the food for tomatoes.

@elsancho-mx7om 11 месяцев назад

This gives you less tomatoes but better quality....

@dougdraper7163 Год назад

Mate you take-off 2 many leafs

@ExpeditionHomestead Год назад

Definitely not, they’re constantly growing back new leaves. This method truly produces incredible results

@dougdraper7163 Год назад

Mate we are are grower,you do not have enough leaves for photosynthesis, a plant needs a total of 12/13 leaves per plant, and if you lay your plant on the ground and cover the main growing stem about 10cm /15cm with dirt, to bring more roots, you'll have amazing results.

@ExpeditionHomestead Год назад

@@dougdraper7163 we do bury them deep as well. My plants say otherwise, they produce like no other 💪

@louisacapell Год назад

@@ExpeditionHomestead come on, the plant is trying to grow leaves because it needs them. You also cut off all the fruiting branches. If you remove the part of the plant that fruits.... Logic dictates you get less fruit. And you do. This is a silly fad.

@kqdwills Год назад

@@louisacapell I agree. This is over pruning. Surely we need to prune if the leaves too dense and overlapped each other, so the plant's photosynthesis is inhibited, but not to the point cutting all the leaves off to the stem's barebone. Fruits need ATP energy for cell division and growing larger. Without leaves, the plant don't have enough energy and nutrients to grow larger. Surely they still grow since the root system is established , but they won't grow to their potential. The plants already have fruits. Those fruits will be matured and ripen, but the new fruits forming will be hampered.

@faceshredder2576 Год назад

Lol don’t do this to your tomatoes 😣🫠 You will significantly reduce your yields Only trim below the few stems close to the soil and that’s it. Trellis your tomatoes and you’ll be picking them all season