Optimal Tomato Plant Support

Selecting the Ideal Clips for Preventing Damage

Written by Martin Meuldijk | Last update: 9. August 2023

Tomato support hooks

Tomato plant clips play a vital role in ensuring the right support for your tomato plants throughout the growing season. During the initial stages of a new crop, clips protect young tomato plants that are delicate and prone to breakage. As the plants mature, the accelerated growth makes it challenging for the plant to support the additional weight, which will often lead to damage. This impacts crop yield and quality. To counteract this, we can give plants additional support. Our team of Specialists are here to help you find the right tools that provide your plants with the support they need.

Clips to Prevent Tearing of the Tomato Plant

The first time a tomato plant is lowered, there's a risk of tearing stem tearing. Growing tomatoes with a two-shoot setup further increases the chance of breaking shoots as the plant gets bigger and heavier. This can stunt plant growth, as well as making it vulnerable to diseases and fungi like Botrytis.

The Twinhook can be used to support the stem of the tomato plant. The Twinhook provides support to the main branches of the plant. We recommend using the Twinhook approximately one month after planting the seedlings in the greenhouse.

Advantages of Tomato Support Clips

Tomato support clips bring forth numerous benefits that foster the robust development of tomato plants. A primary advantage lies in the reduction of stress on plant stems. As tomato plants become laden with fruit, their stems can buckle and snap under the strain. By utilizing clips to support your tomato plants, you encourage upright and vigorous growth, minimizing the risk of harm. Furthermore, tomato support clips facilitate the training of plants in specific directions, empowering cultivators to exert finer control over growth patterns and optimize space utilization.

Tomato Plant Clips for Efficient Plant Support

Tomato plant clips stand as vital instruments in furnishing robust and dependable support to your tomato plants throughout their growth cycle. These clips provide a secure fastening to trellises, stakes, or wires, thwarting the plants from bending, fracturing, or sprawling due to the weight of their fruits. By integrating tomato plant clips into your cultivation techniques, you can optimize plant growth, enhance air circulation, maximize sunlight exposure, and ultimately amplify your tomato yields.

Tomato Support Clips

After a span of a few weeks, the initial trusses make their appearance on the tomato plants. These early trusses hold a heightened vulnerability, susceptible to bending easily at their stems due to their weight. Such bending can adversely impact the tomatoes' quality or even impede the complete growth of the trusses themselves.

To counteract this susceptibility to bending, tomato truss support clips come into play. These clips are affixed around the truss stem, imparting support and thereby enhancing fruit quality and yield. The truss arches serve as excellent plant support, characterized by their notable flexibility, effectively preventing truss bending. This, in turn, translates to a greater quantity of higher-quality tomatoes within the initial trusses. The inherent flexibility of the clips simplifies their attachment around the stems of the tomato trusses.

Clips for Tomato Trellising

Another crucial part of tomato plants requiring support is the its stem. As tomato plants increase in size, so does their demand for support. This is why professional horticulture employs high wire hooks and twine to trellis tomato plants. Trellising ensures the upright postion of plants while stopping stem breakage. Trellising can be done using two distinct methods: the twisting approach, or utilizing tomato support clips. Though the traditional twisting method can still work, an increasing number of growres are opting to secure their plants using tomato support clips. These clips attach under the leaves and easily connect with twine through a single, effortless click. The process of working with tomato clips is fast and straightforward. Aside from their application in tomato growth, these trellising clips can also be used for cultivating cucumbers and bell peppers. In the case of cucumbers, a smaller clip like the Valent Cuke Clip 15mm or Brinkman Easy Clip 14mm is needed. For bell peppers, a larger 26 mm Valent pepper clip is necessary. The Valent product range also encompasses a 23mm tomato stem support clip. Depending on your specific crop, there's an extensive assortment of vegetable plant support clips to suit your needs.

Using Tomato Plant Clips

Using tomato plant clips has a lot of advantages, when compared to conventional tying methods, for providing support to tomato plants. And although we refer to them as tomato clips, their usefulness extends to other vine crops such as cucumbers and peppers. These adaptable tomato clips ensure stability and efficient growth. Their adjustable nature works with different stem sizes, making them suitable for other crops. Their ease of application means you save time and labour while ensuring secure fastening without causing harm. These clips are designed to offer both flexibility and secure grip. Notably, tomato plant clips can be reused, making them a cost-effective and eco-conscious choice for multiple growing seasons.

Biodegradable Clips for Tomato Plant Support

Along with standard plastic support clips, our selection also features biodegradable tomato clips. The benefit of biodegradable clips is in the reduction of waste costs, since they don't need to be removed during crop rotation. Biodegradable clips are compostable and hold certifications attesting to their biological compostability.

Brochure: Save Labour with our Valent Line

Hooks, clips and twine are essential for your cultivation. They supports your plants right from the beginning of the crop rotation. Use the Valent line to eliminate the risk of breakage, save labour, and to ensure that young plants grow tall and strong. In this brochure, you will find the differences between the Valent Hooks, the advantages of the Valent Clip, plus a lot more.

Prerequisities for Professional Tomato Cultivation

Royal Brinkman, in collaboration with its invaluable network, is committed to crafting a more sustainable and promising future for entrepreneurs engaged in protected horticulture worldwide. As a united force, we gaze forward, foresee forthcoming advancements, and strive for enhancement. Our specialists have curated a comprehensive page that offers insights into the entirety of our offerings to bolster your tomato greenhouse endeavors. Our spectrum spans a wide array, encompassing customary crop provisions as well as investment-grade assets designed to facilitate greenhouse automation.

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