Pruning Determinate Tomato Plants 🍅

Pruning tomato plants can have multiple benefits, but the primary focus for me is avoiding disease.
I share exactly how I prune determinate tomato plants and my reasons for doing so, as well as a common misunderstanding surrounding pruning tomatoes.

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00:00 Intro
00:28 What is YOUR pruning goal?
00:46 My pruning goal
02:02 Pruning- How To
05:15 Side note on disease prevention
06:30 A word on tomato supports

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[danonly]

I am a first year gardener and I planted my celebrity bush plants to close together, I will thin out between the plants for better air flow. Your video was a great help. Thanks.

[addysbeeandgarden]

This is unrelated to the video, but I had to share. I planted a single tomatillo plant this year. I just thought I would try one out. I probably didn't prune it correctly, and it's spread out 5 feet in all directions. It has hundreds of new flowers every day, and my vines (pumpkin, squash, cucumbers) have benefited greatly from this. The bees absolutely adore this plant. So they come in for the tomatillo and migrate over to the big yellow flowers. I've never had such a good crop! Definitely a must for next year!

[ojotut]

Jenna, you did a great job on this video. This is what I liked about it: 1) Very short intro/greeting 2) informative 3) to the point 4) has some examples 5) good flow 6) chapter time stamps.
Keep up the good work!

[profighter]

Wonderful video. Great tips for us down here in Florida too! Oh....and I love the Pabst Blue Ribbon hat!

[sharonallen]

Boy this perfect timing. Well have to wait now til Monday we have been bless with a weekend of much needed rain. Great video Jenna.

[lindag]

The way I pruned all my tomatoes this year looks like what you have done here. I pruned off more foliage than I did last year, and I can see the benefit. I've had little to no disease. This video was very helpful...validating my pruning method this time around. Thanks!

[akhtarali]

Very informative and interesting video about pruning tomatoes to avoid from diseases ok thank you, take care of you and your family, I keeping waiting your videos

[mikefrench]

Learn something new every time i tune in!! Thank you Jenna

[CBsGreenhouseandGarden]

Amazing information as always Mrs. Jenna. Stay cool and safe up there my friend!

[wblack]

Like your hat 🍻 In this hot weather make sure to water the gardener Started pruning my tomatoes this year and what a difference. If you haven't done so already I would love a video on what you feed your soil and any fertilizers you use. My garden does well but not like yours. Stay cool

[frankfurder]

Another excellent video, so far this has been a great gardening year, lots of tomatoes, squash, peppers, eggplant....

[joeyyeo]

Another great video, Jenna ! Thanks - Joseph

[Fireball]

Thanks for the confirmation that some pruning sacrifices can help prevent disease. Luckily my part of Ohio has been really dry this summer. I'll gladly spend extra time watering if it means less blight.

[andrewhammill]

My primary goal in pruning the tomato plants is to keep them alive in 100 degree + temps in Texas. When I lived in New York, pruning was a minor task. Now it's a major endeavor.

[jobrown]

Thank you Jenna. I am a new subscriber and am finding your videos very informative - I learn things from you every time (I've been gardening for close to 40 years). One thing I would add is to remove foliage gradually if the weather is really hot. I need to prune my determinates and right now we have 38C temps. I made the mistake once of removing too much foliage all at once during hot weather - not a good plan. Many of my plants died. Anyways - thanks again!

[Gkrissy]

I deal with all those diseases you mentioned so I prune my tomatoes as well.

[akhtarali]

Very informative and interesting video about pruning tomatoes to avoid from diseases ok thank you, take care of you and your family, I await your videos

[catherines]

I wish I'd seen this video literally three days earlier. I only just found your channel and I could not find any clear videos on pruning determinates. I have been pruning mostly like I do indeterminates, because that's all I've known. I just got back from vacation for 3 weeks and the plants had doubled in size. So, i pruned everything but the top 3 stem growths and any that had flowers/fruit. The good thing is they're healthy and I have no disease, and i have 8 suckers that I'm going to attempt to re-root and continue growing. But now I feel bad bc I worry I did too much. I didn't even know I'd planted determinate tomatoes until a week or two ago when I learned there was more than one kind of growth.

[melissad]

Thank you very much for this video. I've been so confused on what to do and this seems like something I can tackle now. :)

[michaelmarchione]

I pretty much prune our tomatoes the way you do. Both our determinate and indeterminate tomatoes. I even sometimes shorten the branches so I don't have to remove the whole thing. It seems tomatoes can take a lot of abuse at times. I try to keep air flow and everything off the soil. Half of our indeterminate tomatoes are tied to a trellis. The other half is staked. I don't usually have to stake our tomatoes, peppers or eggplant. But, this season we have had a lot of heavy winds off and on. Even when there isn't any rain. Our growing season here in NNY zone 4a doesn't give enough time for plants to really bush out. So pruning is at a minimum. Thanks for your tips! Take care!