"Frank" wrote in message
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On 7/16/2010 12:06 PM, ransley wrote:
I have 5 ft tomato cages but the plants will probably reach 7 ft and
are now falling down. Should the plants be pruned, will this encourage
new low growth or limit it, or do I do what I have done in the past,
sink in a 8ft 1x2 and tie them up. I googled but this I could not find
anything. The best cages I used to have were wire mesh for concrete
and rebar but you need a big place to store them.

I topped a tomato plant growing way above its cage and it did not appear
to harm it or number of tomatoes.

Sometimes you need to do that, or you will have so many growing points that
they won't mature before frost, or you will end up with much smaller
vegetables/fruit. Which is it for a tomato, veg or fruit? Anyway, that's
what I've learned from years of tomato growing.

Love dem tasty garden tomatos. You could take some people and blindfold
them and give them a piece of store bought tomatos, and some of them
wouldn't be able to tell you what it was, they are so tasteless. And even
odorless.

Steve

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