Watch Pruning Tomatoes for Production

Should you prune your tomato plants? Ramon Gonzalez Ramon Gonzalez Living / Lawn & Garden August 7, 2012 Share on Facebook Ramon Gonzalez Tomato Sucker © MrBrownThumb Ask 10 gardeners if you should prune tomato plants and you may come away with 10 different answers. Some gardeners swear by pruning, while others don’t see the benefit of pruning their plants at all. Watch Pruning Tomatoes for Production One aspect of tomato pruning that I do follow and recommend is removing suckers from the crotch (where the stem and a branch meet) whenever I spot them. If left to grow, the sucker will develop into a branch of its own, flower and even set fruit.