4 Mistakes That Are KILLING Your Tomato Production!
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- In this video, I discuss 4 common mistakes gardeners often make growing tomatoes that may be killing your tomato production. There is a lot of information out there about growing tomatoes, and unfortunately, much information is conflicting and causes confusion. This video helps set the record straight so you don't make these common tomato growing mistakes.
Most tomato growing errors stem from incorrect fertilizing practices, inappropriate pruning practices and confusion surrounding different tomato varieties and tomato types. Your unique climate, the fertilizers you use, plant spacing and whether you're growing indeterminate tomatoes, determinate tomatoes or Dwarf Tomato Project tomatoes can dramatically change how you should care for your tomato plants. This video clears up the confusion and provides tomato growing tips along the way.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Tomato Growing Mistakes Intro
0:26 Mistake #1: Fertilizing Tomatoes
3:45 Mistake #2: Incorrect Fertilizers
7:28 Mistake #3: Pruning Tomatoes
10:20 How To Determine Tomato Plant Type
11:05 Mistake #4: Tomato Plant Spacing
15:43 Adventures With Dale
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If you enjoyed this video, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Tomato Growing Mistakes Intro
0:26 Mistake #1: Fertilizing Tomatoes
3:45 Mistake #2: Incorrect Fertilizers
7:28 Mistake #3: Pruning Tomatoes
10:20 How To Determine Tomato Plant Type
11:05 Mistake #4: Tomato Plant Spacing
15:43 Adventures With Dale
This is the first video on tomato pruning that actually explained why you would either want/or not want to prune indeterminate tomatoes. Most sites say "prune the suckers". But no one discusses how close your plants are to each other in relation to this. Thank you!
Indeed--I've been growing maters (and many other things) for many yrs and still have so much to learn, this vid very helpful.
Yes, I have seen videos that tell you that the suckers will not produce. I broke off a main stock, so I thought what the heck. I have great beefsteaks growing from that sucker.
Fried Green tomatoes tonight for dinner !! ❤❤❤
Also,I took the stalk that I broke off and trimmed it down. I now have 3 more plants that are blooming 🎉❤ We shall see. 😊
On indeterminate CHERRY tomato plants, try to minimize pruning suckers, yet at the same time thin foliage in the middle of the plant to allow adequate air flow and prevent disease. On indeterminate non-cherry tomato plants, generally the rule is 2 stems and then prune all suckers after that.
@@jgehbinv I came here to say the same 😂
This is the best gardening channel on YT.
First time I’ve seen a channel explain WHY we might choose to prune a certain way, other than to say we need airflow so single or double stem them. Really impressed with the thoroughness of your channel.
I follow your exact fertilizing guide here with my pepper plants and last year I had plants nearly chest high- it was crazy!
Excellent point! I'm so glad you cleared that up. I was still a little bit unsure about this. but now that you've spelled it out clearly, it's much better. Thanks so much for all your informative posts and keep up the good work!!!
I am really enjoying your content man. Idk why you-tube only just started recommending you. I've been typing gardening questions into you-tube for years now. Congrats on winning the algorithm.
Thank you! Information was presented so clearly and efficiently. All the best to you from the Pacific Northwest.
A wealth of information! I'm a new gardener and I've learned so much, thank you!
This is the best video on tomatoes that I’ve ever seen. A lot of great information. Thank you!
This is the best video I have watched on growing tomatoes. Very thorough. Finally, I understand!
so informative. my first time really trying to take time to have a good harvest of tomatoes for my mom. shes literally obsessed with growing tomatoes. youre my favorite garden channel thank you!
As others already stated here, this is the best video that can be found on the internet on tomato growing: talking about the differences and the why's instead of stating generic and confusing info. You have a new follower here, very much appreciate you sharing 🥰
I am so happy for all the info that you have given us
THANKS 😊
Of all the videos about tomatoes on TH-cam, yours is the most helpful with the most amount of information as well as not being annoying by repeating the same thing over and over again, like so many other gardening TH-camrs do.
Hands down the best information I have gotten after 30+ years of growing tomatoes! Not only the pruning video, but the fertilizing videos as well. I've used all these tactics for many years but this guy explains the pros and cons in detail. Thank you for the excellent advice. It's nice to find more than just somebody's insight.
Wow! Great video!
Excellent information!
This channel is the most thorough source of gardening information I have found so far. I have made a lot of mistakes this year, but I won’t be making them next year! 👩🌾
Thanks for the information, MG. You splain things like an engineer. I love it!
I am an electrical engineer and work as a civil PE 😎
My mind feels like a pinball machine. As soon as I think I know and understand something like pruning suckers, I'm given a whack to the bean into another direction. Always more to learn.
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THANK YOU! As a new gardener you have educated me again and again…going to shop in your Amazon Store right now❤
You help me so much with gardening. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. you are my favorite gardener.
Thank you!! I’m so glad the videos help.
Great info, as usual MG! Thanks! 😊👍
Great info, thanks! Hope to do pretty well this year!
EXCELLENT!!! Very informative with great thorough explanations.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for your very rich instructions and advice. I really appreciate hearing from you and learning more information for improving my gardening processes. Thanks again.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
I've watched a number of gardener's videos, and this is the best I've seen over several subject videos to fully explain the basis of WHY you should do what is recommended. I've learned several new things I didn't pick up before. DEFINETELY a good resource for in depth and accurate information. KEEP THEM COMING! Thanks
Thank you! I really appreciate it. Glad you found the video helpful.
Thanks for all the great info.
Very informative, professional and helpful. Really enjoying the channel even though I am in a different climate. So cold here and nothing is growing but really enjoy learning what to do when the weather warms up the first week of June. Thank you.
I am growing a tomato in a pot in a sunny spot inside. I amin Florida, but I thought I would try. So far so good.
Hope the weather warms up for you. MeemaJessi
@@1sthawkfeathers547 Thank you! Today is the first day I can attempt to harden off my tomato and peppers. Wish me luck! Happy Gardening!
Very informative video, thank you for your work
Excellent video!! Very informative
Thanks for the video, great information!❤️
Thank you for all this excellent information on tomatoes! As a Jersey Girl, I will always contend that nothing beats a Jersey tomato! With all this useful info, I will get as close as possible here in PA Zone 6b! Keep on growing!
Your advice on fertilization, esp for tomatoes is invaluable!!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Reminds me I need to fertilize this weekend! Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support and generosity! I really appreciate it ❤
Thanks for this channel, I am a well seasoned horticulturalist and landscape designer but I always try to learn new things. You always teach me things about veggie gardening and I am grateful especially as I have recently moved to western Washington, zone 8b, built a raised bed vegetable garden and am always watching you for tips. BTW, when are you planning on a fitness channel??? :)
Another great informative video aboit pruning tomatoes from different perspectives based on what you're growing, why, how long, and climate. Dale with football zoomies😅, priceless fun.
Thank you for sharing 💜
Thank you, great instructions!
You’re welcome!
Thanks for the info.
Great input. I grow in greenhouse in the Oregon big dessert and I’ve been single stemming, but they get 10’ tall literally and the fruit prod ruin is low. I have almost zero humidity. I’m going to let these babies bush this year.
Very good information for a beginner gardener like myself. 👍🏼☺️. No wonder my tomato plant didn’t survive.
Think I'm starting to get the N-P-K thing. You helped me a lot today. Thanks!
Good evening!
Really its a great information
Thank you! Glad it was helpful.
Excellent tips
Thanks
Great stuff! And Dale is so cute!
Great info thanks!!
You're welcome!
Awesome video. It's only my second season growing tomatoes but your wrap up says what I'm already thinking. Cookie cutter methods won't necessarily work for everyone. Our job as home gardeners is to assess our unique conditions and expectations and adjust accordingly.
Very well said God Bless
This is my first year growing tomatoes in pots after 13 years of growing them in the ground (dang juglone from walnut trees). I'm growing them in 25 gallon pots and was planning to prune my indeterminates to one stem, per usual, but this video reminded me that since my spacing is about 2' and the grow bags are 25 gallons, I can prune them to 2 stems. Amazing info and VERY well presented, per usual!
Just discovered your channel, I live on the coast of North Carolina as well (Morehead City). Keep up the great work
I am sooo glad I watched this!!! I'm new at growing tomatoes, I only have 3 indeterminate in pots in my backyard here in Michigan. I was getting ready to go out and start hacking every single sucker I see!!! Lol. You taught me that it's a space thing depending on your grow area. Now it all makes since! I'm feeding them right with water soluble 18-18-21 and I have Dr. Earth granulate 4-6-3.
Thank you for explaing things so clearly. I just subscribed to your channel. Dale is awesome!! ✌
Great, great, video. Thanks so much.
You’re welcome!
Perfect, love you!
I learn so much from ur videos thank u
Great video
thank you....
Living in Southern Oregon, we don't have humidity and have a nice long, dry summer. Last year (my first) I trimmed all the suckers from my indeterminate tomatoes and only got a so so harvest. This year, I'll try not trimming to see what happens. Thanks for the advice.
Thanks for sharing ❤
You’re welcome!
Interesting video. So inspiratif
Such an accurate video!! When I started using liquid fertilizer throughout the growing season, my tomato plants were so much healthier, more disease resistant AND more productive!
Love, love your videos
Great info, MG! I am especially helped by tip #4.
Your plants are looking super healthy!👍
Howdy to cute Dale!🐕
Thank you! We got almost 11 inches of rain today, so I hope they don’t get sick from it all.
@@TheMillennialGardener Wow! That's a lot of rain.
Thank you my happy pill.
I am about to plant mine.
I have a very small backyard and no room for an in-ground garden. I use fabric grow bags. Transplanted dwarf tomato varieties end of March for my region, zone 8b. I saw an earlier video of yours about growing dwarf tomatoes versus indeterminate tomatoes. You liked the Celebrity tomato a lot, so I bought Celebrity seeds for my spring/summer garden. The seeds were slow to germinate compared with the other tomato seeds and didn't grow as fast. I thought once I transplanted the seedlings into a 7 gallon grow bag, the plants would get taller. I water consistently, use a slow release fertilizer, powdered bone meal you recommend and every 2 weeks water with a diluted liquid 6-12-6 fertilizer. It's now 2 months after being transplanted, and the Celebrity plants are almost 2 feet tall with lots of little cherry size tomatoes, no big tomatoes. I expected the plants to grow 3-4 feet tall and produce 6-8 oz. tomatoes. My other dwarf plants are growing taller. I have a dwarf variety that was supposed to grow 18" tall with dime to quarter size fruit and was recommended to plant in a 2 gallon grow bag. I used a 5 gallon grow bag, and the plant is a little over 3' tall with big tomatoes. This dwarf tomato experience has been confusing.
Absolutely the best tomato growing video I’ve seen on TH-cam. I grow tomato plants in grow bags. Following the advice of “others” and pruning the suckers…I had almost no tomatoes last year. I grow both determinate and non-determinate varieties. Before I even watched u here today, I decided not to do that this season sensing I shouldn’t. Your advice here reinforces my strategy with the reasons why I will not prune. TY.
I’m glad it was helpful. If you’re growing indeterminate varieties, prune them for your infrastructure. That may be 1, 2, 3 main stems, etc. Determinates, do not prune except the lowest leaves if you choose.
I would love to see you partner with someone who would watch the videos and then make it into a book! I have a hard time as a new gardener remembering it all but having a chapter of this or chapter on that could really be helpful. Thanks!
Oh thank you for this! My determinate tomatoes are pretty much loaded but I needed the info you gave on fertilizer in stages, I didn’t want to give to much nitrogen. Ha..my second harvest which I just planted is going to be phenomenal! So far I’m so happy I went to determinates, my son has been able to enjoy the garden more not having to do all the suckering bc I can’t reach them and adjusting the supports. Next year I plan to plant some dwarfs also! Thank you, I so appreciate all your advice and information!
great info. thank you. planted 10 tomato plants this year.
Hope you included an orange cherry variety, Internet friend.
EZ to grow, sweet & delicious on a sunny day in the garden
Excellent! Variety is awesome 🍅
I'm in the ILM area, so this is very helpful! This my first time trying to grow Roma and cherry tomatoes. My cherry tomato plant is doing fine, but with the Roma plants I've been dealing with BER. They are in containers, and I have started watering them more regularly, but it looks like I may need to adjust what I'm fertilizing with, as well as not pruning them so much. Thanks for the video!
I used to use bone meal every year in my garden. I also learned the hard way that you can ruin your soil for about 4 years with over use. Last year I was finally able to use those beds again. There's no fix other than adding zinc and iron which is very difficult to find for home gardeners.
add compost
@@hulkamania5071 I did that every year but the plants were still stunted and did very poorly. The beds are back to normal now but it took four years.
Hmm. Never heard of that happening and a lot of people have used bonemeal every year for many years. Wish we had more feedback on this comment. Ibe been using blood meal and/or bone meal for many years myself
I love your Dale segments
Great video and very informative. Ordered the Jacks. I was incorrectly fertilizing. The triming advice is spot on. Have a question about the scarlett runners. What a great reccommendation. They have grown beautifully and are very pleasing to the eye. Bean production is almost non existent. my bush beans next to them are producing well. Is it possible the birds are eating the baby pods before they really grow?
Your tomato fertilizing is very similar to ours. Thanks for the tip on high phosphorous when flowering-we will give it try this year.
You're welcome!
Great brother 🙏👍
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support and generosity! I really appreciate it ❤
Best info on TH-cam ..ty 4 that..QUESTION...in the early stages of growth b4 flowering do u water solely with water fish combo or do u water with plain water also..ratios of the 2 if so please
Fantastic! I have been watching your videos for about six months. Best one here. Have you used Alaska Morbloom with the tomatoes? Curious how you would compare to Jack's Bloom or Miracle Gro Bloom. A few feedings, I tried Alaska Fish and Morbloom - so a 5-11-11. BTW - tried your suggestion on colder weather tomatoes, and going for tomatoes earlier. I tried this with Oregon Spring seeds. They are in grow bags, and green tomatoes. Not red yet. Patience is not a strength I possess.
Thans for all the information you provide, one question
Whene wateting your plants what tipe of water do you prefere? Well, rain or tap
Thans
Great info. I took your advise about planting early in a previous video and my determinates are starting to flower already. Question, I expect to start harvesting in June/July so after they are done, do you recommend pulling them and starting new seeds to take me into the fall or let them continue to grow. Thanks!
Succession planting is your friend. I have transplants ready to go now and just seeded more tomatoes yesterday. Many strive for the earliest tomato. I'm going for the latest of the year. And when those determinates start fading don't hang on for a few more tomatoes. Yank them and have other crops ready to go. And have a spot picked out for the 2nd and 3rd round. Remember to rotate.
Thank you for specifically calling out the DTP tomatoes.
They’re great. I’ve been trying to promote them for going on 6 years now.
Learned a lot here. Thank you! I have one question. My burpee bone meal is 6-8-0. Is that solid or too much nitrogen when pairing with the jobes tomato granules the same method you’re doing?
How often do we continue the higher-potassium/blossom booster food after they flower, just once? Or for a couple of feedings? THANK YOU for all this information, you just stopped me from pruning the wrong type of plants & feeding tomatoes incorrectly all season!
After you get the flowers, switch to the higher P and K fertilizers for the rest of the season. Definitely less N.
I need to learn more about fertilizer to give to a plant because in three’s years in a row I killed all my plants peppers,cucumbers tomatoes ,because I don’t know how to feed plants thank for videos I will try to practice more .
Great vid. Quick question does this apply to other vegetable plants as well. (Pepper, eggplant,cucumbers….)
I have existing container tomato plants and was wondering how much and how often should I apply bone meal?
I love your no-nonsense teaching. Thank you! I’m a new subscriber, can you address Heirloom variety tomatoes from Bonnie plants? Thank you!
single stem indeterminate tomato with a foot spacing is good for me, as simple to train one stem per string.
completely agree about regular fertilization with balanced NPK.
when i first started, i was doing the whole composting thing and only using fish and seaweed fertilizers, and rarely got a good crop. now i've been using only jack's 20:20:20, and we have loads of tomatoes for us to eat, process for later, and to give away to family..all from around 20 plants or so, in a tiny veggie plot.
going to grow some sauce tomato types my next season, as eating tomatoes take a lot more work for sauce, with the seed removal.
please please please do a vid on how to support heavier peppers and eggplants in a row situation. i havent been able to tame them with horizontal string and stakes. they get top heavy and start breaking, as they keep branching and growing fruit, with the branching i'm not able to secure.
I really enjoy your Channel, a lot of good information. As-tu fertilizer what do you think of Trifecta plus from Mi Gardner? It is a 5-10 4.
Thank you
You’re welcome!
Great info. Does this fertilization plan work for other veggies like cucumbers & peppers? What about citrus trees?
Thanks for all the specific details. I decided to try one dwarf tomato this year...but I mistakenly already trimmed the bottom few branches because I planned to implement the other vids suggestion to plant deep and get more roots.
If it's a dwarf would you advise not planting deep? (Which would require pruning)
Lol. Dale is such a happy dog!
Bro your tomato video from couple years back inspired me to start with eirloom 🍅....THANKS bro
Glad the videos are helpful!
Great video.
Thank you!
Please enlighten me the different between solid fertilizer and
Water solutions fertilizer. How would be the different in tastes?
Agreed! Great video
Thank you!
@The Millennial Gardener only single stem when it makes sense and works for the situation. We grow 12" on center but sometimes double stem, depends on how the plants look. And definitely adding bone meal this year based on your recommendations.
Do you use the blossom booster through out the balance of the season once flowering begins? Or is it a one time shot? By the way .... Live in the Philly Suburbs all my life and have relatives in Southport NC. Looking to move down in the next 2 years. Great videos
Thanks for this! Love your videos. I find it interesting that your fish fertilizer is a 5-1-1, the one I have has high P (2-4-0). Regardless, I think I'm realizing that my fish fertilizer plus my granulated 5-7-3 fertilizer is still probably not enough P for high bloom production. Thoughts?
I use Porterhouse and super steak seeds and 5 10 10 . d
Will add bone meal as you recommend recommended.
Great video, I single stemmed last year and cut all the suckers. I won’t do that again.