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Also, another benefit of the experiment was that I finally found a variety of tomato I don't mind eating raw. Indigo Rose is a fantastic grape tomato, about the size of a golf ball at their biggest. The flavor is less acidic and more sweet than normal tomatoes, as well as a bit more mild...

Final harvest is in, and the final decision is as follows: Pruning determinate plants is a waste of time. Flavor is no different if you prune those as opposed to leaving them unpruned save for dead/dying branches. Fruits are about the same size, so that's not even a good reason to prune a...

Had a ripe RBSM and a ripe Roma. RBSM is from the large pruned plant, tastes great as a sauce but I wouldn't eat it raw, a bit too acidic. Roma is from the large pruned plant. SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ONES AT THE STORE. I still wouldn't eat it raw, but it was ACTUALLY flavorful and didn't taste...

First ripened tomato: Off large pruned RBSM plant. Taste was very tomato-y. Acidic, robust flavor. Didn't like it raw but made it into spaghetti sauce and LOVED it. Waiting on my others to ripen and I'll keep everyone updated.

Some of the half-ripe Roma tomatoes had blossom end rot and had to be picked and thrown to the chickens. One RBSM and two Roma tomatoes were full size but still green, so I cut the vine and took them inside to ripen. The results of the experiment will soon be in!

Tomatoes were set back because of the cold rainy weather but they're enjoying the sun we have now. First clear day in two weeks. August is about when the weather begins to be a little colder so I'm anxiously watching those tomatoes. Frost isn't due until November though so I'm not worried. Also...

Yeah I add banana peel to the soil itself early in the season, before the last frost date. also use a phosphorus heavy compost.

I wish I had an extension office. We're in Belgium. I wish I had an extension office. We're in Belgium. I can usually do pH testing myself, but nutrients are based on my knowledge of the compost and fertilizer I add to the soil. The organic fertilizer I make has egg shell, coffee grounds...

Calcium shouldn't have been an issue since I mixed in ground eggshell with the soil and made a compost tea with eggshell and coffee grounds. I read somewhere that too much nitrogen can inhibit calcium intake if given too early and basically calcium gets bound up in the soil. Watering isn't an...

Had a couple more Romas with end rot, removed the effected fruits. Next year I'm definitely not planting Romas, if they get end rot this easily. My heirlooms are all fine, especially the IR. Beginning to check and see if IR is bred to be resistant to BER. Next year I think I'll intensively...

Good points everyone. Been gone due to a funeral but I'm back with info on the experiment. All the branches are more or less the same height going in, so that was never a variable. As for varieties effecting flavor, again that's not the focus of the experiment. We're going straight just...

For me it's the exact opposite. The smallest plants are the ones in the very front, with the largest being in the middle tier. The middlemost plant (largest unpruned IR plant) is the biggest one.

Light drizzle and new chickens today. Unpruned IR plants are putting out grape tomato sized fruits while the pruned RBSM and Roma plants are putting out larger produce than the unpruned versions (which aren't really producing at all). The pruned IR plant has smaller fruits but also started...

Well I was right about the corn, and it seems that the plants that are fruiting have seen their fruits swell in size a bit with the clean rainwater. I'll keep an eye on them and see what the sudden burst of rainy weather means for the experiment. No watering today.

Got a hard rain today, which means the corn is gonna shoot up another three or four inches. Tomatoes might get some needed B vitamins from the rain. We will see what this does for the GTE.

I think, like many garden articles have mentioned, it's not so much that pruning determines fruit production and quality. It's more determined by whether a plant is determinate or indeterminate. Many gardeners say it's indeterminates that need pruned or it's determinates and either way ONE type...

Day Three and Four have been uneventful. The large unpruned IR is putting out a lot more fruit than the pruned one while the pruned RBSM and Roma bushes are putting out more fruit than the unpruned ones. Very interesting.

Well the end of Day Two. It was actually sunny after 8:00 am and stayed clear and sunny until around 7:00 pm. Watered and fed as normal, got a little rain later in the day. No real change so far, though the large unpruned Indigo Rose is putting out more fruit. We got plenty of sun so the...

Day two of experiment. Sky is very overcast and weather is calling for 95% chance of rain. We will see what this means for the experiment later. The large pruned Roma VF has one branch that is browning, probably accidentally broke it or something when I was doing the pruning. None of the...

These are current photos of the flowers/fruits of each and every plant. They will be labeled for the purposes of this experiment. The planter and plants involved in the experiment. (pardon my mess) Small pruned Indigo Rose plant, already fruiting. Small unpruned Russian Black Sea...