As you see in the photo above, the tomato plants that rapidly grew in a vertical direction later grew downward because they became too tall to support. When I came to check the plants one morning, I found them as shown in the picture. The stems were not broken, but bent down. The bowing of the plants caused their leaves and branches to become entangled, so I had quite a hard time untangling the mess. Afterwards, I suspended strings from the curtain rail to support the branches of the plants. The supporting poles had not been long enough.

To cope with the situation, I lifted the stems until the plants managed to support themselves and let the farthest ends drop down. I wish I could have extended the plants horizontally, but space limitations wouldn’t allow for this. Further, I had to provide space for the top of each plant to develop and avoid getting tangled with other nearby branches and leaves. It requires hard work, but you need to provide support to the plants relative to their development. Since the plants grow more and more every day, you need to keep an eye on them every day.