Hey MCp was wondering if you have ever done indeterminate tomatoes commercially and if so how long do yours last for , and how long do you veg it (strip it of flowers) before letting it fruit ? am curious cuz i d k what i should do veg my plants longer or just make it a continuous harvest like determinate, any info would help
indeterminate will produce till the 1st frost, determinant produces all around the same time and then stops pretty much.
we do both on the farm, our indeterminate toms started flowering around june and were did not pick any flowers off we just let them do theri own thing, they produced for almost 3 months then frost killed them. now for determinate we did those in a hoop house and they have a shorter flower time, these flowered in about august and stopped in september they produce heavy and fast and then die. differetn varieties will bloom fast and longer and some will be slower and shorter. we dont prun at all on the farm to my knowledge.
I how ever do prune in my own garden, i prune while it is in veg and i take off about 10 suckers on each plant mainly from the under sides of them as they are smaller and dont make much fruit. all these are grown outdoors so i cant control when they flower.
hope that helps a bit, i just woke up to get ready for work so i hope this made sense
my worm bin; 80 lbs. of vermicompost dug out of it. i put the red wrigglers in a into a pile of hot compost. next to it actually; i'm not a worm-killer. in the Spring, back in the bin they go. i also have a small bin in basement, to ensure a population to re-seed with; just in case the ones in pile don't make it thru winter. Happy Festivus to one an' all.
