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Title: Yellow Pear Tomato - cordon or bush?
Post by: Moggle on July 12, 2005, 11:47:01

As simple as that really, got a couple of yellow pear tomato plants from a seed swap, and they are going well, just need to know whether to take out side shoots or not.

Thanks in advance :)

Title: Re: Yellow Pear Tomato - cordon or bush?
Post by: john_miller on July 12, 2005, 11:53:32

Either. My inclination would be to do them as cordons as mice love the fruit. Also they are vigourous plants, for me at least, and you could miss many fruit under the leaves if you let them bush out.

Title: Re: Yellow Pear Tomato - cordon or bush?
Post by: legless on July 12, 2005, 12:09:43

says cordon on my seed packet.

they are romping away, well ahead of all the others actually.

Title: Re: Yellow Pear Tomato - cordon or bush?
Post by: Gadfium on July 12, 2005, 13:41:32

The 'yellow pear' I've got in the greenhose are cordons, not huge amounts of flowers on the trusses, but they look very happy and are approaching 5 feet in height now.

Title: Re: Yellow Pear Tomato - cordon or bush?
Post by: Moggle on July 12, 2005, 18:26:20

Thanks all, cordon it is then :D :D

Title: Re: Yellow Pear Tomato - cordon or bush?
Post by: djbrenton on July 12, 2005, 23:56:44

I pinched out the side shoots on mine and they're quite heavy croppers and I should be picking in the next few days. One of them got broken at about the 12" mark. I let a sideshoot grow and it's caught the others up.

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