Tips, Tricks, and Secrets to growing some of the largest tomatoes on earth 

Thanks so much for watching!!! Best of luck on your season and any other questions feel free to ask!!!

Thank you so much I do appreciate that and hopefully I can help a lot of people out.

Thanks Porkchop and yes very excellent points and tips I appreciate it… if you lived closer to me I’d definitely be doing a Tomato interview with you!!! I have actually gone to a less extreme method myself where I allow most of the plant to grow except for the suckers on the inside of the plant in hopes of giving myself multiple chances at Megas and then going into the heavier pruning after a mega is set.

@@GardenofGiants heck yea.. for the newer growers, which ever way you go, know every vine you have going on the plant…one of those will have what you are looking for. Grow the crap out it and we’ll all meet in Ten pound land.!!

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yeah, you might be putting a little overtime in 😂That’s great to hear Ruben. Best of luck with those tomatoes. Hugs back to you from the USA 😁

@@GardenofGiants thanks my friend🙂🙂

Thanks so much Stewart!!! Yes I believe one of the funnest Giants to grow and you could do it at 3 x 3‘ space!!🍅

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@@GardenofGiants true that !

If you have a good drainage you can mulch around the base but tomatoes do not like wet feet so if your Soil holds water I would try to keep the mulch off to allow the Excess moisture to evaporate… Mulch can also be good at preventing soil from getting up onto the leaves of the tomato plant.

@@GardenofGiantsgreat tip

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You’re welcome!!! Any other questions you have on your growing journey feel free to ask!!! I do appreciate you watching thank you!

Awesome best of luck this season😎

Yes, pinch the first truss off as it’s going to do you know good your hope is one of the next few trusses will throw you a mega! The extreme trimming really starts after you get a mega. However, there is a caveat to that if you are not getting a mega to pop on your first three or four trusses, then I would really start some extreme trimming to see if you could force one. Again, once you get a mega, then you will start pinching off all new growth over a 3 to 5 day. Period. The last place you’ll pinch/cut will be the top. Thank you, and I really appreciate you watching !!

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That’s awesome. If you need any additional help just ask!!! Best of luck on winning the contest!!!

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Thanks for watching and best of luck this season!!! 🍅😎

Thanks Julie!!🍅

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Thank you Dave!!🍅

If you are talking Giants then go with beefsteak, delicious, purple Cherokee or Domingo

@@GardenofGiants Many thanks!

As chris has told me personally. The megas they aren't really for eating they are very bland. Most of these are for competitions

Indeterminate will continue to grow and really it will never stop so a lot of trimming is involved. Determinate means the plant will stop growing or dramatically slow down. It is still advisable that you do some trimming on a determinant however, there are not many giant varieties within the determinate. In fact, none that get really over 3 pounds that I know of so it would be a variety more for table fare.

Yes I use a 9-61-0 phosphorus fertilizer by (Raw) during flowering and then during fruit growth I use 4-12-12 along with potassium (0-0-50) to really amp the fruit up. I also use cal mag, boron, kelp, and Humic. All made by Raw… NPK industries

Thanks I appreciate it!! Generally by day 30 you really start to have an idea if they’re doing good and then you’re going to get peak growth I believe between day 30 and 50…. And important sidenote generally speaking your day 40 numbers are going to be very close to halfway to your final weight.. so for instance if your pumpkin weighs 600 pounds on day 40 you’re going to roughly and with a 1200 pound pumpkin. Now there are exceptions to that rule and obviously it doesn’t account for heavy to chart or light to chart. Also if you can push your pumpkin closer to the hundred Day Mark versus the 80 to 90 Day Mark you could probably gain some as long as your pumpkin continues to grow all the way up to harvest date.

@@GardenofGiants I'm sorry I meant are tomatoes similar to pumpkins in that way and how do you know one is special. My fault.

A tomato that has at least two or more blooms fused together that has a successful pollination is going to be a special one…. now the tomato can be anywhere from 2 pounds up but that has a lot to do with technique so once you get a fruit that you want to go all in with that’s when you start to execute a technique….. I have more videos coming about tomatoes so pay very close attention to the future ones.

Domingo is the variety

Yes I do!! They are genetically valuable

Do you have some seeds?

Yes

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Email me your address and I’ll see what I can do Gardenofgiants@yahoo.com