Cherry tomato plant gone wild !!!?

Question

I have a cherry tomato plant that has already grown about 2 feet over it's cage. The weight of the limbs are causing it to droop heavily over the top of the cage . . . and it doesn't even have the weight of the fruit yet !!! What should I do ???

Answer 1

LOL...I had that problem last year psycho plants...I was told to trim off the non fruit bearing branches of the plant (the ones with no flowers or tomatoes on them)...grap a clippers and go for it...it will not hurt the plant, in fact it will help....all the energy the plant uses right now is going into the stems, if you cut them back that energy will go into producing the tomato

Answer 2

Stand back and wait for the ripe tomatoes. A lot of cherry type tomatoe plants wonder all over the place. If you can give the vines some support so that the cage doesn't damage them where they hang over. Maybe some sort of padding where the vines cross the cage wire.

Answer 3

Pinching them back makes for greater advantageous tomatoes and a plant with a greater suitable & greater suitable habit. greater advantageous isn't a lot greater advantageous for cherry tomatoes, and in case you enable them to place out greater branches, the greater tomatoes you get (in spite of if the plant is unruly). it rather is authentic the plant will by no skill be as good, yet cherry tomato season is rather short and your important tomatoes must be ripening up by making use of the time that concerns.

Answer 4

Are you using a fertilizer like miracle gro? My aunt told me that if you use too much fertilizer the vine will get huge and will not produce much fruit. She has been gardening for about 75 years. She told me you should use fertilizer about every2 or 3 weeks. This advice has worked for me. My plant have 100's of tomatoes on each vine.

Answer 5

mine do that to, grow like crazy I just let um do what they gonna do then get a bucket and start pickin