News Flash
For anyone that paid good money for a Topsy Turvy tomato hanger expecting the plant to grow downwards:
NEWS FLASH: PLANTS. GROW. UP.
Upside-Down Sweet 100
Upside Down Big Momma
I mean, seriously.
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Huh. Yeah, now that you mention it, the whole concept of training roses to a fence so they will put out more vertical canes along the eyes suggests the problem of vertical growth.
What are you going to do?
Hahaha! Maybe the weight of the tomatoes will eventually pull it down?
Jess: I have a feeling it’s more likely to break at the curve in a windstorm, but we’ll see…
I grew them more as an experiment to see what would happen than to really get fruit from them. They were seedlings I had ‘left over’ after planting everything else that I wanted.
OK, so you made me sensitive to this and today I looked at a garden catalog and sure enough, 2 of 3 pictures showed tomatoes clearly growing up. They had more branches than yours, so it wasn’t as obvious until you looked for it. But you could see them doing it.
So my unscientific judgment is that Jess may be right. Looked to me like the weight of the plant drags down the main stem, and the branches can then grow upward at will while the plant expands. In some ways, that balance between gravity and reaching for the light might obviate the cage by turning gravity’s effects upside-down. Now that I read that, it seems kind of “duh.”
Should be an interesting experiment.
As long as the sun to continues exist in the sky plants will grow up. Though I agree as the plant bears fruit it should look more like the classic topsy turvey pictures.
If anyone wants to see how my plants are doing with a very similiar setup see here
Topsy turvy tomatoes is made to plant tomatoes more easy.Also,the nutrients and water you will put directly go to the hanging tomato plant so this is more good.
I remember the topsy turvy planted on our garden when i was five.It’s fun to see it hanging and i’m planning to set up a new topsy turvy on my garden.