Newbie gardener here 🙂 husky cherry red tomato plant I bought from home depot in October is still alive and producing (a bit slower now but decent)! Lots of twisting and turning branches lol. Gets full sun. In zone 10B in Los Angeles.
Wondering if I should prune the bald branches – some posts I saw said to not prune cherry tomatoes, but curious if anyone has advice to help these guys live their best life?
by Reasonable-Run5524
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Wow pretty impressive youve kept it blasting this long! If you like that variety you can try rooting some of the suckers and growing them out as that 1 plant looks a little tired haha.
Husky Cherry Red is an *excellent* choice for a tomato to grow in containers here.
Just be aware of its characteristics — HCR is a semi-dwarf indeterminate (like a true dwarf, it’s compact, and has rugose leaves…but it will bear over a long period, like indet type).
And does fairly well in cool temps, without being an actual “cold tolerant” variety.
So neither fish nor fowl, really….you can grow it like a determinate & only remove the crummiest-looking leaves or diseased stems, or (kinda) prune it to a certain number of stems.
Do some reading on all those terms; it’ll be time well spent.
But past that….it’ll soon be time to get new tomato plants going for the main season here, and there’s no reason not to replace a tired plant.
Get a new one in five or six weeks (or now — if you’re close to the beach, it may be mild enough weather from here on out) and you’ll have a fresh one.
Bigger pots will be better/easier, though; if possible, go a good bit bigger on the pot size.