At 10:41 PM 5/30/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 09:46:58 CDT
>To: tomatoe@globalgarden.com
>From: John & Jan Taylor <jtaylor@stic.net>
>Subject: Re: Roberts windblown 'mators
>
>robbert@ccnet.com wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the note
>> Here in the S F Bay Area winds have ripped my beefsteaks and betterboys in
>> half. The damage is to the trunks as well as the limbs. Limbs are still
>> barely attatched....by threads.
>>
>> The plants are the size of a beachball.
>>
>> Leave them alone......?
>>
>> Cut them back to the ground?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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>I would perform CPR!!!! On the BEEFSTEAKS especially!
>
>But really, I would not do a thing except perhaps to prune off the limbs
>that are attached by strings ONLY if they are dying...
>
>And would not prune the whole thing back...I would just wait and see how
>it fares....and watch for new growth below the damaged area...etc. take
>it a day at a time....
>
>I would also probibly put stakes up and around the plants and tie off
>the broken limbs, just to support them....or add extra support beyond
>what you normally do...
>
>
>(or get the duct tape out and start patchin')
>
>Dunno what the "pro's" on this list would do..I tend to take extreme
>measures with my tomatoe plants, and baby them big time.....
>
>Jan Taylor
>
Tomato plants are tough. I'd use some of that stretchy plastic
horticulture tape, and gently but firmly tie limbs back together unless one
is dead. Prune off the dead ones, but tape and splint the others, and
they'll be all right. I'd set up some windscreen, though. When they get
bigger, the problems will grow. Margaret
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