• "my logic is that they are small tomatoes and pruning suckers to make them bigger is not-productive. and i like production."

This was my experience experimenting with four different approaches to pruning 8 SS100 plants. At about five feet tall, I was so convinced the pruning was counterproductive that I let all 8 plants grow with no further pruning. High temps have halted production and the final results are a mixed bag, but the biggest healthiest plants are clearly the ones that were never pruned; which leads me to believe they will be the big winners if they make it to cooler fall weather and re-start production. What I cannot be sure of is that they were the most productive to date. One heavily pruned plant got sick and died. All the others seemed to produce very similar amounts of tomatoes, the key being I stopped pruning then they took off. I'm pretty sure a plant pruned for a month after establishing four branches ended up being the most productive, but pruning may not be the reason, and it may have been even more productive had I not lopped off suckers for a few weeks. The plants pruned to two branches were earlier (one of them died though). So it could be a little pruning can hurry production, then leaving all suckers to their own devices gives excellent results. In my opinion pruning cherry plants is more effort than it's worth, but controlling unruly growth makes sense if needed. The young plants did not seem to appreciate the frequent amputations, for me, in my soil, with my fertilizers, and in my climate, for this particular variety, in this particular season. ;)