Plant training and Pruning of tomato plants

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PLANT TRAINING
Image of the setup of our plant training mechanism

  • Tomato plants are trained to one stem that is physically supported by twine woven around wooden stakes to support unpruned plants as they grow.
  • The twines are attached to the young plants by plastic "tomato clips" at about one week after transplanting.
  • Once the plants are clipped, the next procedure is to lean the tomato plants into the direction that they will eventually be trained along the row.
PRUNING


  • GrowNurs is a large propagation nursery therefore we have many workers at our nursery and each worker is assigned to an area in the greenhouse where they are responsible for pruning.
  • The primary pruning tasks are the removal of lateral shoots,twisting the twine around the lengthening stem and Truss pruning.
  • Pruning out the laterals and twisting the supporting twine is usually done twice a week.The lateral stems are pruned as soon as they can be distinguished from the primary stem.
  • At GrowNurs we use a technique called Truss Pruning when pruning our tomato plants.It is required during the twisting and pruning events.
  • Truss pruning involves the removal of young fruit from the truss as a technique to maintain optimum plant balance.It ensures that the plant does not try to fill too many fruit and also that the fruit left on the plant can reach their maximum size potential.

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