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beac

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Sat Jun 23, 2012, 10:54 AM Jun 2012

Should I snip the flowers/stems on a stressed tomato to help it recover? [View all]

Alas, I have another case of stress here in giardino de beac.

My Yukon Quest (a NNRaleighLiberl dwarf) has been growing along fine, if only a TAD slower than his dwarf buddies. But in the last week, his lower stems have gone a palish green and curled under on themselves. I didn't freak out and had confidence that whatever was stressing it, it would recover.

And it is. There are new, dark green healthy leaves forming on the top of the plant.

And there are also about six stalks full of flowers coming out as well.

So, my question is this...

Now that the plant has some healthy leaves, should I:


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snip off the curled stems and allow suckers to grow in to "take their place"
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snip off the flower stalks to send energy away from making fruit and to growing more leaves
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both
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neither, crazy woman, leave your plant alone!
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