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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing

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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (434)	8/6/1998 9:20:00 PM
From: AugustWest	of 3495

>>Will I get larger tomatoes or will the existing tomatoes ripen faster if I pinch off the top? Logically, yes. or at least they will ripen faster, is my guess. There will be less energy put into the development of the new flowers pushing into fruit. A thought runs through my mind that you might cause harm to the plant, but I have seen tomato plantsw survive terrible odds. Sometimes it seems as easy as sticking a willor branch in the ground, and having it root and branck out in the same season. Some times my tomato branches split(due to the wieght of the fruit, but with less than 20% hanging on to the main steam, they havfully ripenedjust the same as the others. Hope this gives you some ideas, but what the heck, can always chalk it off as an experiment. In favt, why not even try to root the tops you snip off? Happy cutting, August.

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