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    Now what??????????

    The Roma bush tomatoes are growing well but they are huge and if they get much bigger I won't be able to get into the tunnel!!

    They are setting fruit and they are so tall I have stopped them. The sideshoots are producing sideshoots and sideshoots and sideshoots.......... Should I remove some if the less mature shoots to encourage the others to get on with the job of producing fruit.

    HELP please
    Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet
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    Oh - gosh!

    Can you try and root some of side shoots to extend your season??
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France

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    • #3
      I could but where am I going to put them? I think that I may look like like a tomato by the time the season is over!!!!!!
      Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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      • #4
        outside in pots!

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        • #5
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          Originally posted by roitelet View Post
          The Roma bush tomatoes are growing well but they are huge and if they get much bigger I won't be able to get into the tunnel!!

          They are setting fruit and they are so tall I have stopped them. The sideshoots are producing sideshoots and sideshoots and sideshoots.......... Should I remove some if the less mature shoots to encourage the others to get on with the job of producing fruit.

          HELP please
          Well I am deeply envious as I reckon all we will end up with in the UK are blighted marbles. My desire to move to France is stronger than ever.
          Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

          Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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          • #6
            snap. Mine is to move to Italy soonest....even if they have blight too [in the North]

            Ahem...back to the question...I wouldn't bother methodically removing the sideshoots, you could remove the odd yellow straggly branch, but it's not essential. Make sure you have a good airflow for them though.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by taff View Post
              snap. Mine is to move to Italy soonest....even if they have blight too [in the North]

              Ahem...back to the question...I wouldn't bother methodically removing the sideshoots, you could remove the odd yellow straggly branch, but it's not essential. Make sure you have a good airflow for them though.
              That sounds good - lets set up a commune! Base of Etna in Sicily is good for growing. We will pick you up on the way down
              Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

              Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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              • #8
                Originally posted by VirginVegGrower View Post
                That sounds good - lets set up a commune! Base of Etna in Sicily is good for growing.

                Anyone got a seismic sensor????
                "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                Location....Normandy France

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                • #9
                  there's always a spoilsport isn't there?

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                  • #10
                    France would be a great place to live IF the French weren't there!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Nicos View Post
                      Anyone got a seismic sensor????
                      Originally posted by taff View Post
                      there's always a spoilsport isn't there?
                      Isn't there just. I had had thunder and lightning practically in my head all morning. For me there would be no difference, apart from I would be able to grow vg instead of slug's belly size. The only exercise I have at the moment, is hurling slimy critters over the fence...don't tell my neighbours
                      Last edited by VirginVegGrower; 28-06-2012, 04:23 PM.
                      Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

                      Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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                      • #12
                        Sounds like you have a semi-determinate variety Roitelet, which can't make it's mind up whether to be a cordon or a bush! I had that happen when I grew Roma, and so I don't grow them anymore...

                        I did find that I had to undertake some fairly radical pruning of mine though, because there was no air-flow and my old greenhouse was terrible for botrytis. The plants still cropped well after the radical pruning, I think because they put more energy into the fruit instead of trying to maintain an ever increasing amount of greenery!
                        Last edited by SarzWix; 28-06-2012, 12:07 PM.

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                        • #13
                          haha!!! I do the same with the snails too

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by SarzWix View Post
                            Sounds like you have a semi-determinate variety Roitelet, which can't make it's mind up whether to be a cordon or a bush! I had that happen when I grew Roma, and so I don't grow them anymore...

                            I did find that I had to undertake some fairly radical pruning of mine though, because there was no air-flow and my old greenhouse was terrible for botrytis. The plants still cropped well after the radical pruning, I think because they put more energy into the fruit instead of trying to maintain an ever increasing amount of greenery!
                            Thanks, radical pruning it is then when the temperature drops enough for me to get in the tunnel. 33 outside at the moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                            Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                            • #15
                              How about potting up the side shoots and flogging them at a vide grenier?

                              33? Ha - 38 here....
                              Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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