I read on a website that if you break the first or second big veggie of the plant then after that the plant will yield more. The site said it will only make one big one and the rest will be small, then a person who did not know of what I read said the same thing I read on the website. Is this true or is this a rumor?
2006-06-11 11:00:12 · 5 answers · asked by twilkins19 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Vegetable and fruit yield depends on two things: how big the root system is and how much the root system is trying to support. For instance, if you want bigger tomatos, remove some of the blooms before they start forming into tomatos. The extra nutrients that would have gone to support them will go to the tomatos that are left. Fruit trees are spray when they are budding for two reasons, one to get rid of bugs and two to limit the number of blooms that produce apples. By limiting the number of blooms that produce apples, you increase the size of the apple. Basically, you are redistributing resources.
2006-06-12 05:42:55 · answer #1 · answered by devilishblueyes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A plant can only yield a certain amount of fruit. A tomato plant for example can only support 1lb of tomatoes. So you could grow one at 1lb or a bunch of small ones (only a bad example). The idea is to pick one or two strong fruits and cull the rest or thin them out depending on what you are growing so the ones left can receive the energy from the plant to reach full size.
2006-06-11 18:06:54 · answer #2 · answered by mad_mav70 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is generally true that if you start picking right away the plant will produce more than otherwise. Not picking can cause its growth to stall - not a good thing, as it might not start back up. As for big and small, I've had some grow quite big later in the season even when I started picking early.
2006-06-11 18:05:58 · answer #3 · answered by dderat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and no, with some veggies such as pumpkin that would work because all the energy would go growing one gourd, in some cases and I've tried it many times nothing has happened although last year I did try to prune some tomato flowers to get bigger tomatoes it did work slightly.
2006-06-11 19:09:33 · answer #4 · answered by okayokayokay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know what kind of vegies you are talking about. I usually pick the ones that grows first
2006-06-11 18:24:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋