Let's talk today about stopping your tomatoes. So if you're growing a determinant

tomato it stops itself. Its length is determined, right?

But if you're growing an indeterminate tomato,

it will not stop growing until the environment forces it

to by killing it via temperature typically

getting too cold, right? Now that doesn't mean that you

should necessarily grow it to that point, especially if you're growing into small space, right? So you get

diminishing returns off of an indeterminate tomato the later you go into the season and you may just

want to cut your losses and in this case cut your gains cut your harvests and

make it ripen up and then take it out of the garden.

So how do you know when to do that?

Generally speaking, as a season draws to a close,

your plant is not gonna have enough time

to set flowers, grow them, pollinate them, grow them and ripen more fruits.

And so you kind of want to say, you know what, even though in theory it will make more until

the season kills it, it won't have time to actually

get those to fruition so you want to cut the top off of your tomato plant so what

you do is you just pinch off the leading shoot. It would be very similar actually to how you might prune

Bazel and you do that in Basel's case because you want Basel to bush out. It has a different growth habit

Whereas if you take it off of the top of its

tomato, it's not going to produce any more top growth unless you have a sucker

shoot that you didn't take off. So also take those off as well as you see them start to form.

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