Ya, this guy’s video was top notch. He got another subscriber

We have been growing tomatoes for years already and I can confirm that this man is 100% correct on any subject he explained in this video! We grow for our own needs but we have knowledge on how they grow professionally in large scale greenhouses in The Netherlands. Apart from the fact that professionally they grow based on hydroponics, but this is actually how you need to prune and maintain your plants to get the most out of your plant with limited space. Good info!

Holy Moley, thanks for taking me to school...this is hands-down the most informative and easiest to understand video on tomato maintenance I've ever seen...now, I GET IT!!! Thank you so much!!!

My mom use to take suckers and replant them for a late crop. They always rooted good.

Years ago, when I first started growing tomatoes, my father -- who had never in my knowledge even stepped foot in a vegetable garden -- told me about suckering. Now that he's been gone the last few years, every time I'm in my garden, and especially when I'm tending to my tomato plants, I think of him and grin. What's an odd duck he was!

Thanks for acknowledging the emotional aspect of pruning. Even after having many gardens over the years, I dislike cutting plants back. I also struggle to pull out the weakest of the seedlings. ❤

Finally, an informative video! So tired of trying to get information from gardeners who want to show you their house, sports, cars, boats, and RVs before they take it to the garden and give little to no information. We all appreciate you, and I have subscribed! You are the new go to.

The electric toothbrush hack is awesome. My neighbor might think I'm nuts but I'll still give them some tomatoes. If they laugh at me, they get ZERO. :)

What’s funny is we grow in bags but we do not remove suckers we barely prune at all. We have no disease, in zone 10b (hot), and we have more tomatoes on each plant than we did when we would previously prune them. Sometimes it’s fun to experiment.

I have been a teacher for nearly 20 years. So appreciate when I can learn from others. You are a stellar teacher!

Besides learning a lot from you, another awesome thing is listening the birds in the background

Well explained, well recorded and straight to the point...thank you for going into detail

First time seeing this guy and he is great!!! Neen gardening for 40 yrs!!!

The best tomato video I have ever seen. Thank you!

I like how he gets to the main discussion! 🎉 thanks

I'm gardening for the first time this year, and my tomatoes definitely look out of control. Thanks for such a well explained video as it's helped me a lot to understand how to take care of the plant with pruning.

Totally true. When i starten growing tomatoes years ago, they went crazy. Huge bushes. I didn't know you have to remove the suckers. Now i do.

I learned something new with Missouri pruning. Thank you!

Best video I've seen on Pruning. I watched, then started pruning my tomatoes. I have around 40 tomato plants growing. I caught your video at the perfect time. Your explanation was very through. I also took a few of the larger suckers and put them in the ground. I'll check out your video on cucumbers. I'm growing them as well as melons. Hit me up if you ever need some sewing done. Thank you so much for your tomato tutorial. I learned a lot. I still have a bunch to plants to prune.

Watching this beside my tomato plante

I only grow cherry tomatoes and this is the first time I've heard cherry-specific instructions. No wonder my yields are always small!

You always do a great job of explaining how to do both types of tomatoes.

Easily the best, most comprehensive and practical guide to pruning and overall care of all kinds of tomatoes. Thanks for sharing! I'm now going to go back and look at more of Nestdoor Homestead's videos!

Wow. Such a great video !! I struggle to pay attention but i could not miss one word of this. High praise for the presentation and for the production in general. I learned so much !! Thank You 🙋☺️☺️🙋

I’m growing tomatoes for the first time this year. I’ve let a few lower suckers get huge as I didn’t understand they were suckers at first. I didn’t know what the best thing to do with them was until I watched your video. This has been very helpful. Thank you.

Too bad I didn't watch this before I planted. I'm new to gardening and am learning so much from people like you. Very informative and well made video. I'm laughing as I look at my 6 x 8 foot raised tomato bed. Everything you said is true. It's a JUNGLE! Next year I will be following your tips.

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="725">12:05</a>, you're not wrong, but in wetter environments like some of the eastern US where it rains pretty much once a week (sometimes raining pretty much all week), if you leave the lower leaves on you are inviting soil borne disease issues. You can wait and cut the lower leaves off gradually, cutting it back as the leaves develop brown spots, but ALWAYS cut off the affected leaves if you live in an area with lots of rain. If you don't, you will notice that one brown spot on a leaf quickly becomes brown spots on many leaves all around the initial infection as rain splashes the spores around. At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="888">14:48</a>, it's probably important to mention that you need to remove the flowers, or the cutting will try to prioritize making tomatoes instead of roots, and often dies trying to do so. Great info in this video, I'll have to check out your channel.

Thank you for making such a clear video. I’ve never really pruned my tomatoes, and they have definitely been overgrown and thick like a berry hatch. In the weight of the tomatoes often times break the branches last year was my first year that they got a late flight and I lost most of them. I’ve been researching how to trellis. And I will prune as you showed and hope to have a much better and more manageable crop this year!

"You're not growing leaves. You're growing tomatoes." That line hooked me on your channel. It was the first time I ever heard it and had a great chuckle. It also happened to be the first time hubby and I decided to grow tomatoes; grow anything. He came out with 17 cubes of tiny plants. 😅 'big boys.' No info how to grow them, no cage or trellis, and no information sheet. I pull out two window size planters and was pleased as they started growing. Realized soon after that this 'project was going to be more than I thought. Three ten gallons later with three tomato plants later I was off buying more planters to repot leaving one or two plants in each. Thankfully, I found your channel and ran out excitedly with my pruner and away we went.😂😂😂

Best video so far on why and how to prune your tomato plant

I've watched so many videos on tomato pruning... finally one that explains everything step by step and in a way that makes it really easy! Thank you so much! Going to wait for the full moon and then jump right in!

You were so right about using the electric tooth brush on top of the flowers. I have trippled my tomatoes! Thank you so much.

Loved this video, thanks so much! I just got a green house set up in our cold climate and now understand how to make the most of my plants to get fruit from them. Well done and many thanks ♥

Wow, I didn’t know a THING about pruning cherry tomatoes! (60 year old gardener here!) I will give it a shot - today!😃

Best tomato pruning video I've seen! Really appreciate it. Thanks for explaining the why for everything. It's useful to remember the info when you know the why

Thank you for the simplicity. I appreciate it.

This video was so educational and easy to follow for a beginner Gardner such as myself. Thank you!

I just planted a small garden for a family to help them. I am astonished that they literally know nothing! But want to!!!! So thank you for knowing there are people just starting and we should help them so they don’t give up!

Ive been backyard gardening for about 6-years which means Im only beginning to learn the ABC's of soil mechanics and plant biology, your videos are concise, informative, and above all you are not trying to upsell me anything, thank you so much for that. Oh and thank you for the informative pruning video too. I've successfully cloned a few plants from the clippings. Once established, given to friends or family.

Thankyou! I had NO idea I was supposed to prune my tomatoes. Your videos are concise and easy to follow and I really appreciate them. 🙏

I have seen a lot of pruning videos and yours is by far the best.

Perfect. Just perfect.

This has been the most informative video. I have seen on trimming tomatoes

Best video I have watched on pruning tomatoes. Thank you.

love it this is the one.

superb instruction ! thanks!

Excellent video! Thanks so much!

Plant suckers for whole new plant ...and they seem to extend the season ..

Thank you so much for this video. I've been following all the other KZfaqr gardeners advice about single stemming larger tomatoes. But, I look at my plants and they look rather naked. Getting some extra leaves via the Missouri pruning method looks like genius to me.

Love your channel! I'm definitely learning a lot this year, thank you!

Thanks so much. We have had a great summer of rain so everything is growing like crazy. It’s my first year and my plants are huge! So I appreciate the tips on taking care of these

Great info, thanks!!🍅

I found your video the most helpful out of all the videos that I've watched. You don't want gate everything so it keeps my brain in tune and able to grasp everything without disconnecting and fading out. You have covered the house and wise where everybody else just has been saying do without leaving my brain comprehending though why. Thank you. Now to explain my situation. I've never grown a garden before. But in the spur of the moment I was at the store and I saw some seats and decided to grab various packets of seeds and start a growing a garden. What makes it unique too my situation is I live on an operate a semi truck across the country. Therefore I am growing a garden on 2020 Kenworth tea semi 18 wheeler truck. I'm not foreseeing my tomato plant growing is large as yours. And this moment I have two vine or main's stems as you call them. They are probably about a foot high beyond the soil. I would like keep them as pure informance possible without insecticides or chemicals of any sort. Would you happen to have any suggestions or tips for a newbie on a semi growing a garden? I believe that I should include the information that I do not know what kind of tomatoes these are. The package just said tomatoes. I don't believe it gave a specific type.

Fantastic video, learnt so much to do differently next year. I’ve rooted my suckers this year and have so many free plants!

Very thorough video. Thank you!😊

Your video is very informative for us newbies. It's good to know we prune cherry tomatoes different from large tomatoes.

Love your videos...lots of great easy to follow info!

Outstanding ❤ Thank you 😊

Thank you so much for going into so much depth! So many other videos on the subject only tell part of the story or assume we already know so much. Without the 'Why', it's hard to remember the 'how'. Thanks again!!

Very helpful. Thank you

I have a tomato bush with a few tiny tomatoes. This information should change my world. Thanks.

Thank you, you have answered so many ? I had. I look forward to see how my tomatoes do. This year i have black cherry tomatoes, very excited to see end result.

Genius - cordless toothbrush to get fruit set. Best explanation of why to prune. Must have watched a dozen tomato pruning videos from well-known channels and yours is the best.

Thanks! What I learned… I have been pruning my cherry tomatoes to 1 main stem. Next year I will try two stems. I have been growing tomatoes from seed for quite awhile. Nice to see it confirmed that determinants can be left alone except for maybe bottom leaves

Thank you so much! That was a wonderful, clear presentation that I will apply to my new tomato garden! Yes, I’m glad that you said it is emotionally hard to prune off those big suckers; because I feel the same way!😭😂❤ 🍅

Outstanding video. Thank you! Very informative and great presentation.

Awesome thanks

Wow growing healthy

I enjoy learning from your videos about tomatoes

Thank you, thank you!!!

Thanks for the info and especially the recap.

Really great/helpful presentation!! Thank you!!

Also thanks for the tip about how to remove the big sucker branches 🙏🏾

very informative. learned a lot.

A nice informative video just in time.❤

I'm a beginner with my mini garden( for now) your videos is so helpful. You lay out everything in details even with arrow pointing and name them what is what. Most gardeners videos just verbally telling us is not helpful we are new to the gardening world we would not understand. I should do okay with my tomatoes with your helpful information. Subscribed! Thank you!

Excellent video, thank you.

I learned a lot. Thanks for the info

Thank goodness 😅 for all your details

I have grown tomatoes on my back deck for quite a number of years, some years more successfully than others, and always wondered about how to help pollinate the plants when the bees are not plentiful. This was very useful information. I will have to get the electric toothbrush and try it out. This year the "Tomato Forest" numbers 25, and may be the best one yet because of you! Thanks!

This is awesome! I just got a cherokee tomato plant and ive never grown tomatoes before, will definitely reference this video!

Great information, thanks

love your channel! I am a new gardener and am learning so much. Thank you😃. would love to see a pepper variation of this video.

So good! Thank you I’ve learned so much!

I am a beginner tomato grower and this was very helpful. Great video!

Thank you so much for making this video! Wish I learned about pruning cherry tomatoes sooner, but will definitely do so next year!

Love your channel! I'm definitely learning a lot this year, thank you!. Love your channel! I'm definitely learning a lot this year, thank you!.

Learning alot,thank you!

Great info. I’m just now starting to learn gardening. This video was extremely helpful. You got a new subscriber

Awesome! Thanks

have started seedlings but handed off to my husband. This year growing them. Wish I had found u sooner!

Thanks for this

I have started to say that I am an expert at growing tomatoe bushes, I hardly get any tomatoes but my tomatoe plants are incredible. Thank you for your advice, I am going to go out now and do some pruning.

I learned so much. Thank you

Thank you!

Thank you for this detailed video for beginners. I inherited 2 tomatoe plants from my mother who just passed away. Had no idea what to do, after weeks of YouTubing YOU HaVE BEEN the best at explaining thank you. But I still don’t know if I have a cherry tomatoe plant 😮

thank you for info

My tomatoes seem to be producing a lot but do have a lot of growth. I just got finished pruning them per your instructions. Can’t wait to see the outcome. Thank you.

This was Incredibly Helpful! I just discovered your channel this morning when I searched for how to prune tomatoes. I am so glad I did! I am now a new subscriber to your channel. Thank you so much for such informative and well delivered information!

Excellent advice!!