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There are two benefits to taking the time and extra effort in “suckering” tomato plants- less disease risk, and larger tomatoes. “Suckering” is a bit of a misnomer, the suckers on a tomato plant aren’t botanically a sucker- the official term for a shoot that grows rapidly up from the base of a plant. Tomato suckers are an extra secondary stem or offshoot that grows between a leaf stem meeting a…