Today we are working on the tomatoes in the greenhouse and wanted to share with you our top 5 tips for growing vertical tomatoes. While these tomatoes are grown in our heat sink greenhouse, the same tips will apply to your tomatoes grown vertically in your soil. We are going to share our top 5 favorite tips to help you succeed at growing your tomatoes vertically.
The 5 tips fort growing tomatoes vertically we are going to discuss are
1 - Nutrition - watch for signs of calcium deficiencies and make an application of calcium (Preplant) half way through your growing season. Blossom end rot on tomatoes is an indicator your plants are lacking calcium. We know tomato plants are heavy calcium feeders. Give them additional calcium half way through the growing season and you can avoid any blossom end rot.
2 - top the tomato plant 8 weeks before the end of your growing season. Allowing the plant to expend energy to produce new flowers and fruit that will never mature is wasteful. Top the plant and force it to put its energy into bringing the existing fruit to maturity.
3 - Pest control - daily you should be looking for signs of hornworms. Look for their frass, as well as missing leaves they have eaten away. Spray BT as soon as you see sign, and then spray weekly there after. If you kill them the day they hatch they won't get big enough to do any real damage. BT is organic and won't harm you or pollinators.
4 - Prune weekly - keep your plants under control so you grow tomatoes, not leaves. Force the plants to put its energy in growing taller, produce more blooms and to ripen the fruit it has already set. Limit unnecessary growth by pruning suckers. Pruning leaves to reduce competition between plants is also a good practice.
5 - Leave one sucker on the stem closest to the growing tip. In the event of accidentally breaking the terminal bud while training it up the twine, having a sucker allows that plant to continue growing. If you break the growing tip off after pruning all the suckers the plant is done growing. That sucker can also be used to propagate n new plant to extend your garden size, or replace a damaged plant.
Link to the BT - https://amzn.to/31J994c
Link to our favorite pruners for tomatoes - https://amzn.to/2z4TsYQ
Hello @smallblockfuelie
Your video looked great.
Youtube has a good Spanish translator.
I have never sown anything, but maybe in the future I think of his advice or teach it to others.
I didn't know you can supply calcium to plants.
Cut the shoots, so that the plant has more power for the fruits.
Good advice and I think it can be applied to any plant.
I subscribed to your YouTube channel to receive notifications of your videos in my email.
Keep it up
Thank you very much Curie for a good selection.
I only speak Spanish and use a translator.
Thank you for your kind words. Yes, you can cut all the plants in your garden before the end of the growing season.
Thank you for your guidance and prompt response.
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Great video. Very practical and didactic. I have not watched all your videos. I am guessing there was one about preparing the soil, etc. I think that's the tricky part, understanding what kid of soil is better for each plant and how we can prepare it before planting.
All your tomatoes look perfect. That means your technique is effective. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us
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