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I have been needing to prune my tomato plant - what a great idea! Now I just need to figure out the right way to prune it.

Do you need to prune tomato plants? I always thought you pinched the "sucker branches" off - not entire limbs of the plant. ?

This looks pretty and how nice about the rooting....but I hate the way tomato plants smell, and they give me a rash.

When I was a kid my father grew tons of tomatoes and everyone gobbled them down and raved about how delicious they were. I could barely be in the same room with a raw tomato!

I couldn't stand eating raw tomato until very late in my 30s and even now (much later) it is the one common food that I do not enjoy at all. But at least I no longer have to pick it out of everything. I LOVE cooked tomatoes. I am a nearly omnivorous eater, so I find this aversion to the raw tomato form one of my more peculiar qualities.

Does anyone else have a "tomato problem"?

I don't get a rash, but I LOATHE the smell. I had them in my apartment once and had to give them away before harvest time.

I care for a disabled parent, and she cannot eat many tomato products without itching and breaking into a rash. So much for my homemade tomato sauce . . .

That's funny that people don't like the smell, because I love it! Of course, I also adore eating tomatos.
And I honestly didn't know you could root tomato cutting in water, so that's pretty cool.

I adore the smell too!

But just a warning, tomato leaves are poisonous (they're related to the belladonna plant, which is colloquially known as Deadly Nightshade), so be careful with them if you have pets or small children.