Every year I see the same advice repeated about pruning tomato plants: always remove suckers, never let them go wild, single-stem is best. But honestly, in my decades of growing, I’ve let some of my indeterminate tomatoes bush out and didn’t notice much difference in yield, sometimes even got more fruit or earlier harvests.
Has anyone actually done a side-by-side in their own gardens? Do you find that obsessive pruning is worth the effort, or is it just something that gets handed down as gospel? I’m starting to think this one-size-fits-all pruning approach might be a myth, and yields might depend more on variety and weather. Curious to hear from those who’ve experimented off the beaten path.
