Beginner Gardening: When to Prune Tomato Suckers and Flowers

In this video we offer advice on when you should (and shouldn't) prune off suckers and flowers from your tomato plants.

Gardening for Beginners Facebook group:

[LionelMessi-vliw]

Best tutorial on difference between determinate and Indeternimate tomatoes! Thank you.

[cherylreds]

I use a small curved bypass pruner to safely cut suckers. It protects the other stems because itpush3s them out of the way.

[lauraduncan]

"What are these suckers everybody is talking about"
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[TeamArVes]

Nice tomatoes in your garden. Just want to ask your video cam you're using. Its really good

[barbie]

Im confused because a lot of videos i have been watching about Determinate varieties say to remove the suckers..Ive never removed anything other then brown leaves. But I'm used to growing up north and now this is my first time growing in Florida where its much hotter outside and last year i didnt have any luck with my tomatoe plants because the sun killed them and they didnt even bare fruit or flowers...Nothing...so now im nervous about these Bonnie Plants Better Bush Hybrid Tomatoes Determinate i just bought today...i need some advice someone since im going to begin placing them in pots tomorrow..thanks!!!

[HappyFarmsLa]

Nice video. I subscribed. I find it hard to find out which tomato is determinate it’s not.

[JoelRayman]

How do i determine what stem will produce?
My tomato plants are more like bushes .
I want to thin out the usless growth to allow the energy to grow more fruit.

[intercommradio]

Let me get this straight. if i have flowers early ( this plant had flowers when i bought them ) should i pinch them off. Newbie here can't you tell lol I just have planted not even a foot tall yet

[r-e_mii]

Im just glad I'm not the only one with 5gal buckets everywhere. Lol. My cherry is in a fabric 5gal and it's just short while the others are tall and flowering. I have one little baby on one. Should I pluck it so the plant doesn't focus it's energy on just that one?

[RockYourNails]

Do you have a video on this subject for peppers and strawberries

[alishaberrey]

I recently planted a roma, a cherry, and a regular tomato plants into the ground. They are getting really bushy but don't seem to be getting taller. Should be pruning the suckers off?! They are flowering like crazy.

[jacobmeleciox]

First time tomato grower. I have no clue what I'm doing. Please somebody help

[sandyshannon]

How do you keep chipmunks out of your tomatoes?

[merychippus]

How to know if your young tomato plants are indeterminate or determinate, I don’t have the seed packet anymore.

[arandhir]

Sir, i planted Tomato seeds and now at 3 feet height but i don't know the type of it determinants or indererminants.... How to identify the types?. Thanks in advance for your reply

[deelee]

Do you just pick the flowers off or do you take the whole when theyre small ofcourse. ;p;p;p

[lilydonovan]

When do we stop removing the suckers on an indeterminate tomato plant?

[sonaverma]

Tomato flower dries up..can i remove that flower ??

[stallionranchwoodworks]

How do you know if you have a determinate and a non determinate tomato plant?

[ladybug_missy]

You're not getting much fruit because you're not pruning off your suckers..