Pruning: Removing Tomato Suckers 

Thanks very much for me

Yeah did look like a side branch.. Maybe he only removed it because it was low near soil?? Bit it doesnt help to remove a branch but call it a sucker, will only confuse people.

It was so low near the bottom. It wouldn’t be getting good sunlight anyway down there. I assume that’s why.

Yes go ahead 👍👀😁

Hi Matt - I would assume those top suckers would indeed get enough sunlight and therefore produce quality fruit.

Tomatoes as an original and wild plant are more than capable of growing on their own without human intervention. They have, as you've said, grown on their own for very long time and have done well doing so. However, all the tomato varieties cultivated today have been through centuries of heavy breeding programs which have resulted in them being able to produce numerous large fruits at the cost of becoming reliant on outside management. Unless you're growing a particularly delicate variety of tomato plant, removing suckers from the bottom half of the plant won't harm it at all. This is because the suckers' purpose is to bear fruit (a process non-critical to the life of the plant), not support the plant daily activities.

if they didn't produce fruits, pretty sure they would be considered a weed. They're very aggressive and hard to control. (the indeterminate variety)

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