Indeterminate tomatoes, on the other hand, continue to grow until the plants are killed by frost in autumn.Determinate tomato plants grow to a certain height, and then flower and produce their fruit in a short period of time.
There are two main types of tomato plants: determinate, also called bush and indeterminate, also called vining.
Because most gardeners know these secondary stems as suckers, I’ll continue to use that term below. A tomato ‘sucker’, on the other hand is a secondary stem, or side-shoot, and will produce flowers and fruits. Suckers are usually removed because they sap energy from the main plant and don’t produce flowers or fruits. It’s common for trees or grafted plants to produce suckers. A sucker is a shoot that that grows from the base of a plant. This vertical tomato plant has been pruned to two main stems which are supported on strings.įirst, I think it’s important to note that a ‘tomato sucker’ isn’t botanically a sucker. Read on to learn whether or not you should pinch out tomato suckers. It’s a question I’m asked all the time, “Should I remove tomato plant suckers?” The answer: “It depends!” There really isn’t a right or wrong answer to this question as it relies on a few factors like the type of tomato plants you’re growing and how you’re supporting them.
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