How I mass produce my tomatoes!

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Cherries and others I stopped removing the suckers when I saw 10+flowers on them. So instead of the sukers, I remove the big leafy branches up to the first flower. I give them bloom booster which has been triggering a mass production each new day I see new branches and more flowers. Those leafy branches suck up all the energy and helps with air flow giving after they are gone. Now when they arent focused on those branches they can focus more of producing fruits/flowers. Ever 2 weeks I use bloom booster+tomato fertilizer. Tomorrow ill take some new pictures of my tomatoes. Some plants I bought at home depot I look for the ones with 2-3 for the price of one.

Sometimes I make clones from my suckers. I made one mistake of cutting one with flowers. But thinking of experimenting to see if it will still grow some roots and eventually produce.
 
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Just now took some new ones. :D The ones in the big round barrel I think I put too many in it. They have been very slow. But I think ill let them produce then harvest the seeds and redo them next year or see how they grow through December. We never ever get snow, and freezing weather.
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Same, I try to stick out as different from the rest. If I see any diseased leaves I cut only those leaves off. Removing those branches I mentioned earlier adds one extremely important benefit and that is spotting those black catapillars. Gosh those things are annoying they ate holes in 2 of my tomatoes.
 
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In 30yrs of growing Tomatoes I never had a pest or disease problem. For 25yrs I grew them along the south side of my house but a huge duplex was put up and took my sun away. So the past couple years all my toms are grown in huge pots in my GH. So I did have a struggle with blossom end rot until last summer. Did some research and tried going for the huge pots and calcium and lots of it. I crush calcium pills into a powder and do foliar spray and put the powder into the soil. Also a Jacobs fert with calcium in it. I do get a lot of branches and leaves so the latter half of summer I am removing a lot to keep good air flow and make room.
I had only a couple fruit with blossom end rot last summer. Here's what my plants looked like mid summer last year.
Where do you grow yours? I tried once to put a few plants right out in the middle of my yard, I'll never do that again.
 
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I grow mine on the patio under a tree that was hogging the sun, so I cut the branch, issue fixed. I prefer mostly storage containers because of the room and they add a green house effect to the roots.

Yea me and my brother did ground tomatoes lol bad idea especially if the soil is mostly clay.

I want to try a beginner hydroponics grow setup in my room with grow lights on a 6 set each a different type of cherry tomato.
 

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