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Some people say a plant should only have one vine in order to get good tomatoes, and other people are satisfied never pruning and no doubt ending up with lots of vines. This is my first year and my plants have small tomatoes and about 4-6 vines each. What about the difference between one vine and two vines? Have any of you experimented to see how much difference it makes between one, two and three vines? Since some people are happy with a dozen or more, it seems there might not be a really noticeable difference between one and two, or one and three.

Also, when it comes time to plant in the final container should we be sure that any extra vines we want to have besides the main one are already growing, and make the hole deep enough so that where the vines branch out from the main stem is below the surface of the dirt so each will develop their own roots?

we had a similar conversation on this earlier. I keep all the vines. I do take off any sprouts or suckers, and then some years I didn't. I personally did not see much difference in the tomatoes and quantity. So much more goes into it, that it's hard to say it was due to an extra vine.

I plant down to the first leaf.