Man, that's a lot of dedication for a cup of joe! I get the appeal, but weighing water feels like turning breakfast into a science lab. I've tried the scale method a few times and honestly, my pour over tastes the same as when I just eyeball it with my old measuring cup. Maybe my palate isn't refined enough, but I'm not about to add another step to my morning before I've had any caffeine.

Just a heads up, your tomatoes are actually not climbing on purpose. What they're doing is called phototropism, which is just a fancy way of saying they're stretching toward the sun, not trying to escape or climb like vines. Real climbing tomatoes have special little hooks and they'll grab onto anything, but yours sound more like they're just getting leggy from chasing light. If you want to stop the octopus look, you really do need to keep up with pruning the suckers, not just trimming the ends. Also, switching to bush or determinate varieties would help a lot for a fire escape setup, since they stay way more compact and don't get those crazy long arms. That being said, if your neighbors are already joking about it, you might as well lean into the jungle gym thing, it's kind of a cool look honestly.