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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Brassica Blaz on June 15, 2011, 18:47

Title: outdoor tomatoes?
Post by: Brassica Blaz on June 15, 2011, 18:47

hi all,can i just ask if i need to "stop" outdoor tomatoes ?

Title: Re: outdoor tomatoes?
Post by: poohpouri on June 15, 2011, 18:59

I REMEBER reading somewhere to stop them around end of July or August so tomatoes get a chance to ripen but cant remeber, sure someone will come along an answer

Title: Re: outdoor tomatoes?
Post by: AndyRVTR on June 15, 2011, 18:59

If you mean nip out the top after the final truss, I would have said yes...

Title: Re: outdoor tomatoes?
Post by: mumofstig on June 15, 2011, 18:59

are they bush or cordon tomatoes, as both kinds can be grown outside?  :)

Title: Re: outdoor tomatoes?
Post by: Brassica Blaz on June 15, 2011, 19:50

there bush varieties.koralik and amateur.

Title: Re: outdoor tomatoes?
Post by: hamstergbert on June 15, 2011, 22:03

Shouldn't need to as being determinate they grow to the right size and then call it a day.  In theory.   

However come the back end of the season the usual trick is to pinch out any new competitor flower trusses that will take plant effort away from ensuring that all the earlier produced fruit ripens properly.