Side stems affect plant vigor. As a tomato grows, side shoots, or suckers, form in the crotches, or axils, between the leaves and the main stem. If left alone, these suckers will grow just like the main stem, producing flowers and fruit. Suckers appear sequentially, from the bottom of the plant up.
The perimeter of a two-dimensional shape is the total distance around the shape, or the sum of the length of its sides. By definition, a square is a four-sided shape with four straight sides of equal length, and four right (90Â°) angles.
Perimeter is the length around a shape. The length around a circle has a special name, circumference. The word circumference comes from the Latin word circum meaning around, and ferre meaning to carry. Circumference: to carry around, like a carnival ride. . . From a website created by a manufacturer of carnival rides: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~iirides/. Centuries ago, in Egypt, it was known that the length around a circle was approximately 3 times the distance across the same circle.