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Should these be removed??

18 years ago

Several of my plants have these suckers on the fruit stems.

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Should they be removed? Some are as big as normal leaf stems. I have been cutting them off because they seem to me to be stealing tomato building energy. What's the call?? To pluck or not to pluck. That is the question.

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