I leave more leaves lower on the plant, prune them if they show any signs of wilt or disease. Only thing I disagree with, I remove part of the fruit. Keep the best 3 or 4 tomatoes and remove the rest when they are small. They will be much larger tomatoes and better shaped fruit and you will get less tomatoes, but a lot more pounds per plant. I can not state how important it is to remove the suckers, each one, although it shares the root system, will grow into a full sized competing plant. The stem has two shoots that grow from it, one is the sucker, the other is the fruiting stem on which the fruit will develop. You want to leave that alone. As he stated, you can read forever, but you will not do it well until you see what works for you thru trial and error. While my greenhouse is perhaps the cornerstone of my preps, it is first of all at present a major hobby and I have received hundreds of hours of pleasure and a lot of good eats for in real senses very little expense. My power boat cost several times more over the years, but that is another story, Pruning Indeterminate Tomatoes for Maximum Production in a Hoop House - Bootstrap Farmer While I live in NH and this presenter lives in a warmer climate, I use my greenhouse as a hoop house, don't really try to heat it, his clip has been a source of much of what I do. And like Eliot Coleman, excellent for colder climates, he has been doing it for a few years as a way to make a living. Lots to be said for Darwin in poster's. If it doesn't work and you do it for a living, the posts stop. If you make a living somewhere else and jump into it, you may make some great posts, but they haven't stood the test of time. YMMV. I try to have tomatoes from late May to Thanksgiving with a heat mat on small plants and additional cover in May and wood heat on frost threat up until about 1 st Dec unless it gets real cold. Thus I don't find that I need to lean the tomatoes, nor do I prune the leaves as heavy as he does. Don't try to carry plants over and often clone suckers of plants I like in spring and replant new plants in August. Works for best for me. I will bet that if you do get into a greenhouse, you will do it different than I do in a few years. You will do what works for you, time spent, what you want out of it, what you have to work with. It will be your solution and that is part of what makes it such a great hobby. My goal is 1 pound plus heritage tomatoes with lettuce, from the greenhouse and bacon, between 2 slices of homemade bread. Have been able to do everything but bacon from preps. Found man who raises hogs and makes bacon, who really loves a good loaf of bread and home grown lettuce and tomatoes. Good chance it would work out.
