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"Suzanne D." wrote:

I bought a bunch of tomato and pepper plants yesterday, and some of them
have flowers and/or fruit on them already. I asked the people at the stores
if I should pinch them off when planting in order to put more energy toward
root-building, and three different people said I didn't have to. I'd LOVE
for this to be true, but I could swear I heard somewhere that you are
supposed to pinch off the flowers and fruit when you plant. Can anyone
enlighten me once and for all?
--S.

I planted a Stupice with 3 small green tomatoes on it, next to a Stupice
with no fruit or flowers (both germinated at the same time, and put out
to harden off together). The Stupice without flowers is 25% larger now
than the one that was setting fruit, but it still has no flowers,
whereas, the other Stupice has given me 3 tomatoes and is covered with
flowers.

YMMV
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
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