I was going to wait until after 30 days to prune my tomatoes, but it seemed like some of the bigger plants were crowding out the smaller ones and some were not getting enough light. So I decided to prune early. As I type this, it is Thursday. I pruned on Monday of this same week. So, how did it go? So here they are. The instructions I found said to use a pair of "kitchen shears." The scissors in the video look like the cheapest scissors you can buy in the sewing section of Wal Mart, so that's what I used. I had never used them for plants before, so I didn't wash them or anything. If I had trimmed some other plants first, I would have washed them or sterilized them first. I just started trimming. Basically, my thought was just to give the smaller plants some chance of getting some more light So here's the bunch of tomato plant branches. I shouldn't have set them down on the quilt, there's some green stuff (chlorophyll?) on there now. Aerogarden's "official" video on pruning says not to be scared of pruning because plants "love it." I'm sure they do. I'm sure it's fun for them to be hacked to bits by weird humans. While I was pruning, I noticed the buds! Oh ****, did I prune any buds off? Too late. I really didn't notice them. I don't think I did. Have I shocked the plants to the point that these buds will now never open? Oh Lord, the cheery lady in the Aerogarden video has led me down the "garden path!" I'm hyperventilating a bit at this point. So here's what it looks like on Monday after I pruned compared to today. I'm not sure it's better.. I'm hoping I'm imagining things and it doesn't actually look worse.
I'll put a link to the Aerogarden pruning video I watched in the resources section. This might be the last blog for a while if these things die. Saint Fiacre, pray for me. I'm gonna need it.
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