JoeR
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Thanks Alain. I read about that when I was looking at the difference between “determinate” and “indeterminate” tomato types. The plants were already about five feet tall when I read that though, maybe It would still help to go back and do that. Also of course every single pack of seeds I bought are indeterminate. I read I’m supposed to keep pinching the tops too, but I lost track of all my garden chores working too much.I've never grown tomatoes indoors, but yours seem to be wildly overgrown : outdoors, we pinch new shoots at the bottom of leaves for if you don't they will take all the energy and make more leaves instead of fruit.
The basic scheme is something like:
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Where the yellow stars are the flowers and the light green shoots to be removed (red X)
The basics here, where anyone with 1 sq metre of soil grow tomatoes.
Tomatoes grown in greenhouses, most of the time in "rock wool" with chemical fertilizers and pesticides are tasteless and poor in all the nutrients that make a tomato a "good" tomato.
But the process to get fruit is the same: you must pinch the new shoots at the aisle of the leaves, any gardener in any place in the world will tell you the same. The only exception is "cherry tomatoes", that can devellop freely.
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I completely agree with you; hothouse pesticide tomatoes are not even the same thing. No flavor, no nutritional value, no color. That’s why I enjoy the non GMO heirloom seeds I bought from seed savers.com, specifically the “Cherokee Purple” tomato because of its intense color and flavor. So far it’s grown better for me than the other types too, doesn’t get blight like the others. I can’t say enough how happy I am with their seeds. They have a higher germination rate in my experience too.