Tomatoes

Hi all! I have a question on tomatoes please. I have some moneymakers that are quite mature now and have a few flowers on (not lots tho). A friend was telling me I should snap all the lower branches off the plants to promote flower/fruit growth. Can someone tell me if this is correct? I don't want to damage the plants.

I also have some of the "hundreds & thousands" varieties too which have lots of branches.

 

The Moneymaker should be grown as a single cordon. I think this video explains the removal of side shoots quite well

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-prune-tomatoes

The "hundreds & thousands" is a bush Tomato, so just let it do its own thing and don't remove and side-shoots. (It will probably need some support though)

 

Thanks Kirsten. The video is good yes. So I do need to remove the lower branches. I had been pinching out the side shoots.

Yes the H&T is a lot more bushy. I have some cute tiny toms on them already!

Thanks v much!