posted 7 years ago
Hello fellow permies, I have a sucker question. I can usually identify suckers. I'm trying three trellising methods this year, one of which is a string hanging from above that I'll wind around the tomato as it grows. This requires pruning the suckers.
On one or two tomato varieties, I get forks in the trunk/stem that don't look like suckers. They don't originate from a leaf crotch. So are these just a "branching and suckering" variety of tomato? I guess I'll just add a string for the new branch but I'm worried each of the forks will fork again and then I'll have more trunks then I can deal with.
In the picture, the fork is in the center of the picture and a "normal" sucker is in the upper left.
Tomato-fork.jpg