During morning visual inspections to see how much rain actually soaked in between the leaves, I noticed this new branch split. The
first split occurs not 3 inches up and the branch is loaded with toms. But as you can just see in the pic (top right corner) is a white twisty. There is lots of debates on staking (or not) a tom plant. In the last garden I waited to long and the plants went crazy! Sure it looked great but getting to fruits was difficult and I was constantly on the look out for critter alert under the bushes. Being in a bucket I decided that staking was critical since there was no run room but it does not seemed to have helped. Since the plant seems to be doing well after first I wouldn't worry except for the rain. The last count was just past 5" and that's not including today. Hold on toms, the sun is on the way!!!
