re: do you pinch off the suckers on your Tomato plants?

On the indeterminate varieties, you can pinch off "prune" the suckers all the way to the top of the vine, we use to grow indeterminate varieties but found a better fruit more yield comes from determinate (ground culture) plants. These plants were bred to grow on the ground and harvested with mechanical harvesters. But I would quit pruning indeterminate once you get a second cluster set of tomatoes and use the tops for protection of the sun.
Now with the "stake culture" way of staking the row ends, placing stakes every other plant and trellising the plant on both side with twine you can grow them successfully staked.

We have been growing these for years. These varieties tend to have superior genetics, more disease and crack resistant and yields are double the older, "stake varieties" with the same or better flavor.


BUT

DO NOT PINCH OFF the suckers once they get too big. You will stunt the plant thus decreasing production.