Anne it looks like some of your plants are still producing some very nice looking toms. I kind of did the same thing to some of mine the past week. I took out some of the plants that were just a mess of vines and suckers to make room for some that were still putting on fruit regularly. I am leaving some of my main stems to keep growing and some are getting really long so I just keep running them along the top of the trellis. I am allowing a few lower new stems to start growing though I seldom have good luck with them because of their poor join with the main stems and their tendency to grow very tall and thin. I radically pruned a few to see if they would grow back and do anything later in the summer. Usually all plants set out in March and April are dead by now; but the grafting is giving my plants a real chance to get old and so I am just trying to figure out how to deal with these older plants that have gotten too big.
Bill
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