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<blockquote data-quote="Sako" data-source="post: 2394132" data-attributes="member: 2539"><p>I was talking with a fellow gardener last week and the subject of "early fruit" came up. I stated that I always pick off early fruit when the plants are small... i.e. I have had tomato plants in the ground for over a month and I am still picking off the tomato blossoms. I have just last week stopped picking off all of the small squash and zucchini that started on the plants. I have always been taught that this helped the plant to grow stronger in the early stages and thus supplies you will more "fruit" later in the year. I see tomato plants at the stores that have small tomatoes on them and the plant is not even a foot tall.... It seems logical to me to do this. If the plant is real small and trying to set fruit a lot of nutrients go into making the fruit instead of going into making the plant stronger first.... Kind of like a 11 year old having a baby.... She is not "grown" yet and thus it has to take some tole on her.... in comparison to say a 23 year old having a child... (strange analogy I know but it gets my point across) </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So, who else does this? thoughts on it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sako, post: 2394132, member: 2539"] I was talking with a fellow gardener last week and the subject of "early fruit" came up. I stated that I always pick off early fruit when the plants are small... i.e. I have had tomato plants in the ground for over a month and I am still picking off the tomato blossoms. I have just last week stopped picking off all of the small squash and zucchini that started on the plants. I have always been taught that this helped the plant to grow stronger in the early stages and thus supplies you will more "fruit" later in the year. I see tomato plants at the stores that have small tomatoes on them and the plant is not even a foot tall.... It seems logical to me to do this. If the plant is real small and trying to set fruit a lot of nutrients go into making the fruit instead of going into making the plant stronger first.... Kind of like a 11 year old having a baby.... She is not "grown" yet and thus it has to take some tole on her.... in comparison to say a 23 year old having a child... (strange analogy I know but it gets my point across) So, who else does this? thoughts on it? [/QUOTE]
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