Nonononono, don't do that. You'll stop the top growth. If you have just put them in then carefully dig them up and plant them deeply after removing some bottom leaves. That'll turn those long stems to roots. They get leggy like that when they're root bound or overwatered. They won't do much for a week or so until they acclimate to the new soil. Keep them watered and use fertilizer sparingly for that first week. You'll be fine.

I'm going to put them in this evening! Will do like you suggested!

Thanks!!

I planted a cherry tom once. It was so shaded by the other plants that it was barely a foot high at season's end. I dug it up, potted it and overwintered it indoors. By spring, it was 6 feet high and very gangly. I planted the rootball and trenched that long stem horizontally in my greenhouse. The top I propped up a bit so it aimed skywards.

After a short while, the rootball sent out a new shoot and the top took off too. I had a double-ended cherry that was as large as two plants, the biggest in the gh and we were swamped with cherry tomatoes!

-Ed