How high's a tomato plant?

I'm confused (no change there then!). Lots of you are talking about your tomatoes reaching the green house roof but I had read somewhere to pinch out centres after about 4/5 trusses so plant would stop growing up, and put efforts into existing toms I presume. Is this wrong or were they referring to growing toms outside, where most of mine will be, as opposed to in a greenhouse?

Regards

Sheelagh :lollol:

 

I work on the basis of stopping them "one month before first frost" rather than at a specific number of trusses

 

I pinch mine out when they get to about 6 foot, so i can still reach the fruit to pick. Dont know how many trusses that ends up being. Worked fine last year (first year).

 

Your tomatoes are as high as you want them to be Sheelagh. You can stop them any time you like by nipping their heads out.

Obviously the more trusses of flowers you have the more tomatoes you will get - well potentially anyway as you do have to get them all ripened before frost (or blight) arrives.

If you're growing them outdoors, as I do, your best chance of getting them ripened is to stop them after about 3 trusses (clumps of flowers).

If you've got plenty of plants you can stop some after 1 truss to get some really early tomatoes.

Hope this helps.

 

Thank you all for your help. I have quite a few plants so I think I'll keep them shortish in the hope of harvesting a good crop several times, if that makes sense. I'd rather ripen them on the vine than the windowcill.

Thanks again

Sheelagh