Tomatoes - potting on and putting out Sweet 100
 

Hi,

bought a couple of Sweet 100 cherry tomatoe plants on impulse, to grow
outside on the patio.

As a temporary home I potted them up in a couple of 7" pots and have kept
them in the sun lounge, waiting for more consistently warm weather.

They are growing tall and thin (not enough direct sunlight, I guess) and the
first roots are showing at the bottom of the pot but they are by no means
pot bound.

I intend to pot them up into large tubs for their final home.

Just read that you should pot tomatoes in their final abode before the first
trusses of flowers, and mine are just showing signs of the first truss
developing.

So:

do I keep them in for a while until this mad May weather has gone, and put
them out in June?

do I put them out now in the wind and rain so they grow up thicker and
stronger out in the open?

Not much luck Googling but they seem to be a 'bush' variety which I presume
means that I do not pinch out the shoots in the leaf axils but let nature
take its course :-)

TIA
Dave R

P.S. I have always found that if you do cut out the shoots from the leaf
axils then they will grow very quickly into more tomato plants - although
you have to start early to get them cropping outside :-)

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