The energy would be better spent on a normal limb with normal sized fruit. If that’s the case with your variety, then I say pluck all of the tomato suckers. This also applies to the fruit that they will bear.ĭepending on the variety of tomato, some tomato suckers will even produce fruit that is significantly smaller than the fruit produced by the normal limbs. I also told you that they tend to be a little slower growing. As I mentioned before, suckers can produce fruit. 🙂 If tomato suckers can be productive, why am I being told to prune them?īefore we go any further, I’ll tell you that there are many different opinions on what to do with tomato suckers. They can still be productive members of society. The reality is that these limbs simply take a little bit longer to develop fruit than the normal limbs do. Many people choose to pick the suckers off of the plant because they think they aren’t going to produce tomatoes and therefore simply ‘suck’ the energy out of the plant that could otherwise be used to produce tomatoes. The tomato suckers simply develop differently than other branches do. It develops leaves, flowers and fruits if left alone. What does the tomato sucker do?Ī tomato sucker is just like any of the other branches on the tomato plant. The one in the center is not a tomato sucker, even though it looks like it is almost coming out of the crotch of the other two limbs. These are normal fruiting limbs on a tomato plant.

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