Today, I’m showing you how I propagate tomato suckers to make new plants!
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did you find out if it works as well on determinate varieties? I just tried it Monday with mostly indeterminate except some Bella Rosa which is determinate. I'm in zone 8B south Alabama where spring planted vines are mostly gone but I cut suckers from healthy tips of half dead plants. We have until mid Nov to early Dec before average frost date.
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I got a very sorry looking plant for 50c after repotting it and giving it lots of fertilizer it has been revived sadly just in time for winter so I'm going to take a bunch of cuttings grow them indoors over winter and hopefully get a good yield next year.
I like to root a couple cuttings in the fall and winter them over. HOWEVER, do not plant those plants into the ground in the spring, as they will languish. They use a ton of energy to winter over. Instead, take cuttings in the spring and use those plants for your growing season.
I stuck tomato plant suckers in growers recharge and got little roots in 4 days
Do you know if it is possible to do this in an aquaponic system, where you just "plant" the sucker right into the system? I would think since it has water, it would root just find and then continue growing. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks and great video!!!
Thanks for the video! This is the first year I’ve really grown tomatoes successfully, and as it got colder I moved some of them into a small greenhouse. I want to root some cuttings just to be safe in case those tomatoes don’t make it through the winter (in South Texas). I’ll see how this works, and if I’m successful I may use it to multiply the starts/new purchases for next spring. BTW I already have your new book pre-ordered, looking forward to getting it!
Hi can you do that from pepper
Just in case anyone was curious, I just tried it myself and you can grow suckers that have pretty much just sprouted! I'm talking like the length of half a thumb. I was pruning my tomato plants after transferring deep into the soil to get the stem rooting and decided to see if I could save all the suckers I removed.
They started out very slow. Probably about 3 weeks before I could see them visibly increasing in size, but sure enough, they are now growing 🙂 Now I've turned my 3 gifted tomato plants into 10! Of course, there's still a chance they could die for whatever reason but they are growing and have doubled in original size. I didn't even root them either, just stuck em straight in the potting soil and trimmed back the foliage to only a couple of leaves.
The thing is, you MUST keep the soil visibly moist for the first two weeks pretty much. If you're going to leave them outside, make sure they only get about 1-2 hours direct sun at the most. I live in a climate zone 10 and I forgot to water one of them for 1 day while out in the sun, and the top layer of soiled dried up, taking my sucker with it. thankfully it's the only one lost so far and the rest and doing great.
Thanks so much, I wouldn't have even tried this if not for this video! 🙂
I just tried this with 5 suckers. I put one sucker in dirt and 4 others in 2 jars ( 2 per jar). All died except one in one of the jars. How is it that two suckers are put in a jar and one dies and the other doesn't when the conditions were identical? Same water, same temperature, same amount of light and darkness. It doesn't add up.
High levels of dissolved oxygen promote healthy root growth. … When there's less oxygen in the water than there is in the plant, this reduces the permeability of roots to water, therefore reducing (even reversing) the absorption of nutrients.
Levels of 8 mg/l or higher are generally considered to be good for greenhouse production and much higher levels, as high as 30 mg/l or more, are achievable and can be beneficial. If the DO levels are below 4 mg/l, the water is hypoxic and becomes very detrimental, possibly fatal, to plants and animals.
For water, 1 ppm = approximately 1 mg/L (also written as mg/l) of contaminant in water, and 1 ppb = 1 ug/L (also written as ug/l). A measurement of 6 mg/L is the same as 6 ppm.
Cold water has higher ppm while warmer water has a lower concentration.
When you think about it,
The oxygen levels in the water can make or break your success rate.
Oooo, I can do this with the summer cider tomatoes I got. They are rare.
If I cut off a branch instead of a sucker, will it still grow roots and produce tomatoes?
Vine tomatoes are indeterminate I think closer to the wild varieties as are some of the older varieties. The wild tomatoes are in danger of extinction which will lose much of our genetics since only one variety was taken to Europe in the beginning
Love learning from you, Jess. You are so knowledgeable about so many plants and animals. I had a Nubian goat that had triplets. We were so surprised. It was our first goat, but I moved to the Virgin Islands and had to leave my goats behind. They do have a saying down there because they don't have a lot of room for cattle, but they do have goats. The saying goes, "They can't get your goat if they don't know where it's tied". I actually bought a couple of our boys tee-shirts with that on them. I am trying to propagate some tomatoes but I don't think they are going to grow. I put them in water. Next time I may try starting them in soil. This is the first time I have ever had the variety of plants that I have now. You have been my inspiration. My husband was always the gardener. I told him he could plant a broom stick and it would grow. Love your VLOGs.
I forgot to ask if you ever make fried green tomatoes. I love them, but tomato sandwiches are delicious as well.
Thanks Jess, just used your technique on my Beefsteak!!!
Could you graft a sucker?
I just LOVE your videos! I learned most of my gardening knowledge by trial and error, had I discovered your videos earlier it would have saved me tons of grief. Since recently discovering you, I search your videos for all of my gardening questions! Keep on keeping on! God bless!
This is a very informative video concerning tomato suckers; every thought/question is clear.
You give so much information o thanks for your information
I have successfully propagated the “patio” determinate variety bush tomato even after fruiting has been going on. Just look for the suckers in the plants armpits. The determinates don’t seem to make as many suckers as the indeterminate varieties. I have even gotten a leaf to root in water, even though that’s usually not the best place on the plant to take clippings. The roots that grew from the leaf were fewer than roots that grew from a sucker. My patio tomato clippings still produced fruit, but it took them about a month to start doing so and the plants didn’t grow quotas big as the mother plant. When I planted my patio tomato clipping, I put it into a spot that was too shady, and I think that could be why it didn’t grow as quickly as the mother plant.
I am doing this today with my Basin Mountain Tommy Toe, Margaret Best Tommy Toe, and my Gargamel tomato.
Tks for sharing this information
Hey it's my first time checking out one of your videos and I thought it was so random and awesome that you mentioned wild boar farms. The owner used to be in my hometown ( fairfield,ca) and still to this day his seeds are the only ones I buy. Small world! Thanks for the tips I was just pruning my plants today and decided to try to propagate some of the suckers.
Look up tomato plant patents.
Yr explanation is v detailed.thks for sharing..