What is a sucker on a plant?
A shoot that grows from the base of a plant or from the junction between a branch and the main stem. On tomatoes, suckers grow in the 'armpit' between the main stem and a branch.
"Remove tomato suckers below the first flower cluster for earlier, larger fruit."
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