Do determinate tomatoes ever sucker?

Daylilyfanatic4 · June 23, 2011

I'm growing out a cross I made where the male parent was an indeterminate and the female parent was determinate. I'm looking for some sign that the cross took and I didn't get self pollination. The plant is growing at a good clip and keeping up with my sungold but it has yet to reach a size that would rule out it being a determinate. It is sending out lots of suckers, so my question is to determinate tomatoes ever sucker?

barkeater · June 23, 2011

Determinate tomatoes always sucker. Otherwise there would only be one branch. The suckers on determinates terminate with a flower truss at the end.

zipcode · June 25, 2011

Determinates have usually flower clusters every 2 leaves, and ind have at least 3 (usually 3). Not sure if this is set in stone, it's just a personal observation (I also note after how many real leaves a certain variety has its first flower truss... lol).

June 23, 2011	#1
Daylilyfanatic4 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Zone 6 SE NY Posts: 64	Do determinate tomatoes ever sucker? I'm growing out a cross I made where the male parent was an indeterminate and the female parent was determinate. I'm looking for some sign that the cross took and I didn't get self pollination. The plant is growing at a good clip and keeping up with my sungold but it has yet to reach a size that would rule out it being a determinate. It is sending out lots of suckers, so my question is to determinate tomatoes ever sucker? __________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DLF

June 23, 2011	#2
barkeater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NE Kingdom, VT - Zone 3b Posts: 1,439	Determinate tomatoes always sucker. Otherwise there would only be one branch. The suckers on determinates terminate with a flower truss at the end. __________________ barkeater

June 25, 2011	#3
zipcode Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6 Posts: 1,582	Determinates have usually flower clusters every 2 leaves, and ind have at least 3 (usually 3). Not sure if this is set in stone, it's just a personal observation (I also note after how many real leaves a certain variety has its first flower truss... lol).