It's called "Florida weave" and there have been discussions here that give helpful recommendations, so you might try Searching that term on this forum.

Meanwhile, here's a good basic site with illustrations.

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.foogod.com/~torquill/barefoot/weave.html

Are these the cages you are referring to?

Hard to picture a plant outgrowing them. ;) Never used them myself but they consistently get rave reviews here. I use homemade cages made from CRW (concrete reinforcing wire) like many other cage growers.

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: Texas Tomato Cages

julieann

The Florida weave requires even more frequent tying of tomato vines than the occasional escapee from the cages. You'll need to add twine around the plants as they grow upward.

Are Texas Tornado cages you mention the ones that digdirt linked? If so, you can't get anything sturdier, according to many here on GW.

On the other hand, if these things are what you are calling "texas tornado cages", then yeah, most ANYTHING would work better than they do.

Dave

I use Texas cages. I have no idea what Texas TORNADO cages are? But I have never had to extra stake or reinforce a Texas cage and I grow monster sized unpruned tomato plants! Here's what a couple of Texas cages look like Holding two Porterhouse tomato plants:

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I use 6' tall 22" diameter remesh cages for my tomatoes. The cages are staked with 6' remesh bars and attached with spring-clips or plastic trash-bag snuggies (don't know the term for those things where you put a sharp toothed piece through a slot an pull them snug).

I've seen how commercial growers grow on horizontal strings--kind of like a fence.

For what it's worth, I grow mine on *vertical* strings, via vine clips. Gives you a lot more control for keeping them off the ground. I prune off the lower suckers but let the higher suckers grow, so as to encourage fruiting at a convenient height.