Posted by Skud in Growing Stuff on February 22, 2013 at 22:43
PermalinkI have a wild sweetie tomato plant that I got as a seedling from woolfit. It grows the tiniest, sweetest, most delicious little tomatoes on spreading branches. When I first looked it up I thought it said "determinate" so I didn't stake it. But now it has these branches that are spreading up to six feet wide. They're not drooping/falling much as the tomatoes themselves are so sweet, but they are kind of impeding traffic. I lifted them up, thinking about staking, but they didn't feel like they wanted to go upright.
So I'm wondering, what have your experiences been (if any) with this tomato variety? Should I have been staking it all along?
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I know nothing specifically—except there's a parenting site that uses the analogy of 'tomato staking' to talk about parenting…the idea being that you should constantly be tweaking/ reminding/correcting behaviour all the time, because if you leave it until they're 'fruiting' it is really hard to do (tomatoes apparently should be staked early and gradually, because it's excessively hard to stake them once they're grown). Fe
@Fe: sounds about right :)
Meta-note on commenting: when I reply to Fe's comment it would be nice if I could see it. But I can only see the OP. Lots of things are looking like threaded comments are kinda needed.