Did this last year. Planted a cutting on the balcony. Was a miniature store bought tomato that I grew from a fruit. The cutting produced a ton of fruit. Whenever you cut an existing, non or low producing plant it pushes the cutting into overdrive. More growers need to take advantage of the cuttings.
Hi! This may sound 'funny' to some, but the sound of the rooster, etc., is like my next-door neighbor or my in-laws small farm. I guees 'city-folk' may not get it, but I'm sure that they need to break away on a discovery 'road trip', knock on a farmer's door and just say "hi!"! I live in Southeast Kansas (Independence,KS) and we raise everything, even a "ruckus" now and then, but our people are coutreous, welcoming and ready to 'tell a good story'. Great video! More, more, more!
! 🤦♀️10 mins ago I was just staring at my rogue tomato plant (that sprouted from the compost heap) before I found your video. I've started growing coleus cuttings lately, and I never thought to grow tomato ones! Thank you! I'm going to do that right now.
Thanks for showing us how to do this! I have a tomato volunteer that survived the winter, and I'm going to try this technique to get a head start on tomato season.
I had never been into taking cuttings too much except for vines or tomatoes, but this year I tried a lot of different shrub cuttings (probably due to your videos) LOL, but it is a lot of fun and now I have cuttings all over the place, thanks for the video Blake and being my cuttings inspiration.
Thank you for sharing. I’m four weeks into my first indoor tomato attempt. If this works on tiny tim and red robin tomatoes, (and I do my part well), I should be able to have continuous harvest throughout the winter. (As long as the power doesn’t go out in sub zero temps) If the tomatoes ,and myself , survive the winter, I’ll let you know come spring. Thanks again.
Very interesting video. I learnt something. I knew you could take the suckers growing between the stem and a branch and propagate new plants, but this is new to me. Thank you for the video.
Great Information! I'd like to see how your plants do along the way, growth, blooming and fruiting! I tried this one year, but was wrong time (too late in season) for me, I had no greenhouse to support my project, but they grew well. Punkin is so cute, I like the lil' napping station you made. Nice! Now Luke has a NEW Mater plant for his garden . . .Thanks for caring and sharing!
I just did this yesterday with a too tall tomato plant from outside that I wanted to try growing in the house over the winter. Lopped the top off and jammed it in a new pot of soil. Your kitty is adorable. ☺️ How many roosters do you have we only had one and boy was he noisy!
Thank you very much! We got to visit Hawaii one time. It was a very nice visit. Someday I'd like to go back and do more hiking so I can see more of the Island's beauty up close.
Great video! Not too sure about those hairs. I photograph my plants and the hairs are all over them including the flower stems. This method works brilliantly.
Thanks! I can't wait to try this. I'm just not sure I have a good sunny area on my heavily wooded lot to plant them after they root but I'm definitely anxious to find out! 👍😊
You have an amazing garden sir. Thanks for the information, I plan growing tomatoes this year so this will go a long way. The only downside is the accursed squirrels! >:+O I'm thinking of a large chicken wire enclosure, my father swears by it. subscribed and belled.
thanks Blake, that really does look easy! question: I live in an apartment with west-facing windows. I don't get a lot of sun, would it be possible for me to do this in my apartment (I'm guessing no, but I have to ask!)? .....guess those roosters don't like to share the spotlight do they?....
+Madeleine Baier those crazy roosters like to make noise all the time! I would think that you could still do this with some indirect sunlight. Give it a shot... you never know if you don't try :)
Blake Kirby very true, I'll try and see how it turns out! Jeeez, I do hope that with the racket your roosters are capable of, they settle down at night. Most birds are diurnal....
good video; i am in N TX and I find that in the heat of summer the plants don't set fruit very well; id you don't have that problem let me know how you prevent that. thanks
+Tracy Bruring July and August in TX are BRUTAL. Most of my production is done by then. These tomatoes, I'm going to try to keep them alive in the shade until after August so I can put them out for a second season. If the Winter holds off long enough it should be fine.
i realize im a few yrs late but it may help someone any tom limb will root i always root my suckers just stick in good damp soil ckeck in about 8-10 days they are growing grow new plants for nothing when you buy plants dont buy so many just plant the suckers and any limbs you cut off you can place in a trench flat with a leaf sticking out it will root and make a new plant i go with celebrety spelling dont look right they are immune to top 5 tom problems
Thanks for the video. I have a small greenhouse and the tomatoes have gone mental in it, reaching 180cm in height. They have also become too wide for the confines of the greenhouse and one big branch is poking outwards. This branch has many flowers on it but I believe the fruit is not yet set. Would I be okay to cut this branch off and re-plant it? Many thanks, Nathanael
I am doing something similar. I live in the New Orleans area, and I started two tomato plants last fall and over-wintered them in my patio container garden. During the winter a storm snapped my tomato plants over at base, because I didn't have them properly supported and over the next few weeks the new growth turned upwards. I took plastic containers about the size and shape of a small brownie dish and filled them with pea gravel and water and tucked the 'hook' (the part where the new growth turned upwards) of the tomato stems under the gravel. I also did this for several other branches on purpose. This weekend I'm planting those rooted stems in my garden at our new house. I am also planting stems I didn't pre-root this way directly into the ground.
What I realized was that this cycle of upward growth and 'bending over' is probably the strategy the original native plants used to spread itself locally over distance. Imagine a plant growing on the hillside -- a storm comes and the downdraft knocks the plant flat. Then the rain comes filling little pockets with water and sediment. Our flattened plant lands in one of these pockets to be buried with water and sediment. The plant roots itself in the pocket and is, as a result, independent of the original plant's root base -- plus it has translated vertical growth into horizontal travel. Somehow that plant came to be without our tomato stakes and cages. Surely there is an advantage of being so easily blown-over.
I immediately planted the cuttings on the soil. I dug deep since rooting was easy if it is done this way. Why do you have to put in in the seedling tray? It's a waste of time, unless you want to transfer it later on a pot.
Hi. Just watched your video and I am going to try to get some cuttings off my Pruden's Purple Heirloom tomatoes. I'm in upstate NY so growing time is getting short. Can the tomato plants be grown in the house? Did your cuttings produce tomatoes? Thanks for taking the time and I loved hearing your roosters! My dogs usually act up whenever I'm on the phone so it's kind of the same thing.
nice you got several new plants from one cutting I like that :) now a bit off topic but still about cloning, I got some apple cuttings that are doing well should I let it produce blossoms or cut them off ? thanks for sharing :)
+freakygeaktwo My thought is that you might not let it flower for the first two years. After that it should be established enough to let it produce a few fruit. I'm glad it's working out for you!
write thank you for sharing I didn't know that.how did it take the roots to grow? would this work better in the northern states due to a short growing season?
+annette rumley These took about two weeks before I peeked under there and saw roots. This may be a way to get a jump on a season if you had one plant over-winter well.
Great video. Thanks. It appears you are using actual limbs and not suckers. Is that correct? I would like your opinion. I have had disease problems a Master Gardner friend told me was coming from dirt splashing on leaves when it rains. Limbs turn down closer to the ground when a sucker grows in the middle. Why not cut the limb and leave the sucker???
I've done this with both limbs and suckers. Sometimes I do trim the limbs and leave the suckers. It's all about experimenting with your plants in your climate. I like to prune the underside to about 8 inches up (at least) from the ground to help prevent the issues resulting from splashing.
@@daddykirbs Thanks. We have grown tomatoes for years but only started trying to do better when I had a bad year with blight. I pruned a few limbs and left suckers last year but I did not mark them and follow up to see if I got any tomatoes on the suckers I left. BTW, we are in north Georgia...range 8. A local Master Gardner known as the "Tomato Man"...RIP... taught a class in using PVC feeding tubes. I did that, fed them weekly with Tomato Miracle Grow and did not worry if it rained or not. They did great except for diseases which is somewhat of a problem. We canned over 100 pints of tomatoes and quite a few quarts of tomato juice from 26 plants. Thanks for the information.
A big thumbs up on this! I tried this years ago & every one of them died.You use thicker/bigger cuttings than I did, I think that's why you succeed. Did you try this with rooting powder, too? I wonder how that would do. BTW, I gotta ask....how many toms do you want to end up with, are you sure you have the space & time to deal with them all?
+Blake “Daddykirbs” Kirby 13 isn't bad, it looks like you have 100 out there, lol. I had 30 so I know how much work they can be. After our move, this year I have only 4, so much more manageable.
Awesome video, thanks! Hey - I was going to let my two tomato plants from last year (which are in 12" pots) just die off, since most of the foliage has died, but there is still some new growth near the TOP of each plant. Can I take cuttings from there? Hate to throw it all away when there's still life! Thanks 😉
I would do it just to see if it works! My guess is that yes you have a chance at the plant still having enough life in it to give you a good start on a new one.
I put the cuttings in a cup of water yesterday and stuck them on my windowsill. Gotta pick up some potting mix and all the good stuff before planting! Thanks!
We move ours inside. I had cherry tomatoes until this ( frost I forgot I moved it on the patio ) morning. Today is the 4th of April I believe. Every day feels like Sunday with the 19 lockdown.
Great video. Very informative. Anyways, is your cat a male or a female. (Coz female cats are the ones that really hunts the mice and rats) and that is true even to a pack of lions and other big cats. The female are mostly the great hunters while the males only likes to breed and steal a meal.
I don't suppose rooting hormone would hurt the cause.. I made the fatal error of letting some neem oil get too close to my tomatoes..(problems with cabbage worms a bit further down the row) Tomatoes REALLY hate the stuff..
Brilliant. It’s 2:30am and I am about to get up to try this. Great video.
I love that you did that at 2am, I love gardening!
Haha yes same here
So long planting tomatoes and never knew I could use cuttings! Thank you Blake!
+Dekel Chile Give it a try and let me know how it went :)
I'm starting today , in our community garden, growing fruits and vegetables for people in the neighborhood !!!!
Did this last year. Planted a cutting on the balcony. Was a miniature store bought tomato that I grew from a fruit. The cutting produced a ton of fruit. Whenever you cut an existing, non or low producing plant it pushes the cutting into overdrive. More growers need to take advantage of the cuttings.
Hi! This may sound 'funny' to some, but the sound of the rooster, etc., is like my next-door neighbor or my in-laws small farm. I guees 'city-folk' may not get it, but I'm sure that they need to break away on a discovery 'road trip', knock on a farmer's door and just say "hi!"! I live in Southeast Kansas (Independence,KS) and we raise everything, even a "ruckus" now and then, but our people are coutreous, welcoming and ready to 'tell a good story'. Great video! More, more, more!
! 🤦♀️10 mins ago I was just staring at my rogue tomato plant (that sprouted from the compost heap) before I found your video.
I've started growing coleus cuttings lately, and I never thought to grow tomato ones!
Thank you! I'm going to do that right now.
LOL rogue tomato… she grew from all those nutrients in your compost
I could have never imagined that I could multiply (clone) tomatoes like this, easily! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for showing us how to do this! I have a tomato volunteer that survived the winter, and I'm going to try this technique to get a head start on tomato season.
I love going through my stream on G+ and seeing your videos pop up. It's like a pop up surprise. I love how passionate you are about gardening
+Pocket Raphael I totally dig seeing your skate park photos too. You are an artist :)
Thank you and you are the plant whisperer
Pocket Raphael Haha... I shall not show you how many I kill. :)
Is Google paying you to say you use g+?
thank you
I needed this!
Will start tomorrow
Awesome!! Thank you. Just found this video and it was exactly what I needed - step-by-step help.
I Love your cat.
Thank You for Showing us.
PRETTY WORK DONE
Great idea Blake! A BIG thankyou from Australia!
+66otnt A BIG You're Welcome from TEXAS (Where everything is BIG, right?)!
Excellent information ... thanks!
Really cool video! So glad you made this, Blake. I can't wait for my tomatoe plants to get big enough to try this out!
+Andy Rosenberg I would love to hear back from you to see how it went for you!
I had never been into taking cuttings too much except for vines or tomatoes, but this year I tried a lot of different shrub cuttings (probably due to your videos) LOL, but it is a lot of fun and now I have cuttings all over the place, thanks for the video Blake and being my cuttings inspiration.
I'm glad I can contribute to your madness! LOL You are a great gardener. Keep growing!
;-)
thanks for the great tips! i love saving money and love tomatoes. i will definitely try this.
thank you for the tips i will do also this one in my garden yo grow more tomatoes
Thank you for sharing. I’m four weeks into my first indoor tomato attempt. If this works on tiny tim and red robin tomatoes, (and I do my part well), I should be able to have continuous harvest throughout the winter. (As long as the power doesn’t go out in sub zero temps)
If the tomatoes ,and myself , survive the winter, I’ll let you know come spring. Thanks again.
So? Did it work?
@@mojbozicek I’m wondering the same 😂
I'm glad I found this video! Just had a storm blow through & Big Juicy lost 2 of her branches. I'm going to see if I can save them!
Very interesting video. I learnt something. I knew you could take the suckers growing between the stem and a branch and propagate new plants, but this is new to me. Thank you for the video.
+Larry342516 ah, good times in the garden ;)
+Blake “Daddykirbs” Kirby You bet. :)
I figured this, but never tried it or saw it done. Thanks! Shared to a gardening/agri group I help admin. :)
+Ann Crum (MiniHomesteadNews) Sharing the video is the greatest gift you could give to me! Thank you :)
This is perfect for extending early harvest hybrids. Heirlooms from seed in my experience have always been easier
Do you have a video on the update, sorry just tuning in. I’m really excited to see those results!
Such a wonderful information thanks
Great video, short and to the point, lol, and very informative, thank you for sharing this with us! Stay Free People!
Ya lets see Luke plant dat baaad sob mater. Need more Luke
Luke planted one of these Tomatoes last night. That video will be up soon.
Great Video Man !! 💯
Learning these techniques are priceless.. I appreciate your help and your knowledge, Thanks for sharing all your experiences.
Gratitude I will try... love care. From PR.
Great Information! I'd like to see how your plants do along the way, growth, blooming and fruiting! I tried this one year, but was wrong time (too late in season) for me, I had no greenhouse to support my project, but they grew well. Punkin is so cute, I like the lil' napping station you made. Nice! Now Luke has a NEW Mater plant for his garden . . .Thanks for caring and sharing!
+miz sterious We'll plant one of these in Luke's garden real soon. :)
thanks this is exactly what I was looking for!
thank you for this very informative video. no im going to do the same thing to my tomato's too..thanks again..
GREAT INFO. Very interesting how well it works..Thanks for making the video. Does the roots come out from the whole stem..?
+I AM NJ ORGANIC:farm:garden I'll uncover one to look when I pull 'em out of these pots. My guess is... yes.
THANK YOU. I think it is going to be on just the top and bottom. Middle empty. Looking forward to your answer..THANKS
I just did this yesterday with a too tall tomato plant from outside that I wanted to try growing in the house over the winter. Lopped the top off and jammed it in a new pot of soil. Your kitty is adorable. ☺️
How many roosters do you have we only had one and boy was he noisy!
i always used the suckers i tip off, but i see the bigger stems work great too.
How long does it take to go from cutting to fruit? Is it quicker than it is from a seedling?
As a drummer, great technique!!!
Love your videos. Aloha from Hawaii 💐🌸🐳🐬🐑🐏🌊🐟🐠
Thank you very much! We got to visit Hawaii one time. It was a very nice visit. Someday I'd like to go back and do more hiking so I can see more of the Island's beauty up close.
I like this method! Good luck for this project!
+Catalin Oancea If you approve, then I know I'm on the right track! :)
+Blake “Daddykirbs” Kirby OK!!!
Great video! Not too sure about those hairs. I photograph my plants and the hairs are all over them including the flower stems.
This method works brilliantly.
Those hairs turn into roots
THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR TECHNIQUES!!!😃👍🏽🙋🏽♀️🔥🙏🏽👑✝️📖🔥
Thanks! I can't wait to try this. I'm just not sure I have a good sunny area on my heavily wooded lot to plant them after they root but I'm definitely anxious to find out! 👍😊
Blake, I've read that ground cinnamon works as well as commercial root stimulators. Have you ever tried cinnamon? If so, did you find it works well?
I've heard that too, but have never tried it.
Awesome vid Kirby, very informative. Gonna try this in my own garden. Regards, West (from US Army back in the day, if u remember :)
Hey man! yes I do remember (not always very clearly LOL).
Thank you! That’s was really informative 👍and very easy to follow!
You have an amazing garden sir.
Thanks for the information, I plan growing tomatoes this year so this will go a long way.
The only downside is the accursed squirrels! >:+O I'm thinking of a large chicken wire enclosure, my father swears by it.
subscribed and belled.
Yes, some kind of netting or enclosure would help keep the larger critters out. Thanks for joining me here!
use a green house on the cutting, you can make one out of a 2 litter bottle
Thank you!!!
Thanks buddy...
thanks Blake, that really does look easy! question: I live in an apartment with west-facing windows. I don't get a lot of sun, would it be possible for me to do this in my apartment (I'm guessing no, but I have to ask!)?
.....guess those roosters don't like to share the spotlight do they?....
+Madeleine Baier those crazy roosters like to make noise all the time! I would think that you could still do this with some indirect sunlight. Give it a shot... you never know if you don't try :)
Blake Kirby very true, I'll try and see how it turns out! Jeeez, I do hope that with the racket your roosters are capable of, they settle down at night. Most birds are diurnal....
good video; i am in N TX and I find that in the heat of summer the plants don't set fruit very well; id you don't have that problem let me know how you prevent that. thanks
+Tracy Bruring July and August in TX are BRUTAL. Most of my production is done by then. These tomatoes, I'm going to try to keep them alive in the shade until after August so I can put them out for a second season. If the Winter holds off long enough it should be fine.
if i have a tomato cutting that has flowers that are fruiting on it, should i cut them off to help with root growth?
Thanks for good information
I must try this 🙃
Thank you. New subscriber
i realize im a few yrs late but it may help someone any tom limb will root i always root my suckers just stick in good damp soil ckeck in about 8-10 days they are growing grow new plants for nothing when you buy plants dont buy so many just plant the suckers and any limbs you cut off you can place in a trench flat with a leaf sticking out it will root and make a new plant i go with celebrety spelling dont look right they are immune to top 5 tom problems
Exactly how i do it to a tee.
Drum stick and all.
Thanks for the video. I have a small greenhouse and the tomatoes have gone mental in it, reaching 180cm in height. They have also become too wide for the confines of the greenhouse and one big branch is poking outwards. This branch has many flowers on it but I believe the fruit is not yet set. Would I be okay to cut this branch off and re-plant it? Many thanks, Nathanael
I am doing something similar. I live in the New Orleans area, and I started two tomato plants last fall and over-wintered them in my patio container garden. During the winter a storm snapped my tomato plants over at base, because I didn't have them properly supported and over the next few weeks the new growth turned upwards. I took plastic containers about the size and shape of a small brownie dish and filled them with pea gravel and water and tucked the 'hook' (the part where the new growth turned upwards) of the tomato stems under the gravel. I also did this for several other branches on purpose. This weekend I'm planting those rooted stems in my garden at our new house. I am also planting stems I didn't pre-root this way directly into the ground.
+sirjimmy71 What a good way to turn an accident into something good! Nice work.
What I realized was that this cycle of upward growth and 'bending over' is probably the strategy the original native plants used to spread itself locally over distance. Imagine a plant growing on the hillside -- a storm comes and the downdraft knocks the plant flat. Then the rain comes filling little pockets with water and sediment. Our flattened plant lands in one of these pockets to be buried with water and sediment. The plant roots itself in the pocket and is, as a result, independent of the original plant's root base -- plus it has translated vertical growth into horizontal travel. Somehow that plant came to be without our tomato stakes and cages. Surely there is an advantage of being so easily blown-over.
If the weather is right could you start them in the ground?
I've started sucker's out like this,not any cuttings,sweet...cool cat
I immediately planted the cuttings on the soil. I dug deep since rooting was easy if it is done this way. Why do you have to put in in the seedling tray? It's a waste of time, unless you want to transfer it later on a pot.
Hi. Just watched your video and I am going to try to get some cuttings off my Pruden's Purple Heirloom tomatoes. I'm in upstate NY so growing time is getting short. Can the tomato plants be grown in the house? Did your cuttings produce tomatoes? Thanks for taking the time and I loved hearing your roosters! My dogs usually act up whenever I'm on the phone so it's kind of the same thing.
+DDiamondRRuby yes given the right temps and light they be grown indoors. Yes mine produced. Good luck!
nice you got several new plants from one cutting I like that :) now a bit off topic but still about cloning, I got some apple cuttings that are doing well should I let it produce blossoms or cut them off ? thanks for sharing :)
+freakygeaktwo My thought is that you might not let it flower for the first two years. After that it should be established enough to let it produce a few fruit. I'm glad it's working out for you!
Nice video
write thank you for sharing I didn't know that.how did it take the roots to grow? would this work better in the northern states due to a short growing season?
+annette rumley These took about two weeks before I peeked under there and saw roots. This may be a way to get a jump on a season if you had one plant over-winter well.
That's what I hoping you'd say. I might try that this year. I bought a couple plants I might be able to do that with. Thank you
Can these be grown indoors under grow lights?
So you can use stems other than the suckers?
Great video. Thanks.
It appears you are using actual limbs and not suckers. Is that correct?
I would like your opinion. I have had disease problems a Master Gardner friend told me was coming from dirt splashing on leaves when it rains. Limbs turn down closer to the ground when a sucker grows in the middle. Why not cut the limb and leave the sucker???
I've done this with both limbs and suckers. Sometimes I do trim the limbs and leave the suckers. It's all about experimenting with your plants in your climate. I like to prune the underside to about 8 inches up (at least) from the ground to help prevent the issues resulting from splashing.
@@daddykirbs Thanks. We have grown tomatoes for years but only started trying to do better when I had a bad year with blight. I pruned a few limbs and left suckers last year but I did not mark them and follow up to see if I got any tomatoes on the suckers I left. BTW, we are in north Georgia...range 8.
A local Master Gardner known as the "Tomato Man"...RIP... taught a class in using PVC feeding tubes. I did that, fed them weekly with Tomato Miracle Grow and did not worry if it rained or not. They did great except for diseases which is somewhat of a problem. We canned over 100 pints of tomatoes and quite a few quarts of tomato juice from 26 plants.
Thanks for the information.
A big thumbs up on this! I tried this years ago & every one of them died.You use thicker/bigger cuttings than I did, I think that's why you succeed. Did you try this with rooting powder, too? I wonder how that would do.
BTW, I gotta ask....how many toms do you want to end up with, are you sure you have the space & time to deal with them all?
+Chris Dahl I'm probably over-doing it! LOL I have 13 planted in the garden right now. We'll see how it goes :)
+Blake “Daddykirbs” Kirby 13 isn't bad, it looks like you have 100 out there, lol. I had 30 so I know how much work they can be. After our move, this year I have only 4, so much more manageable.
good video
Thank you :)
Awesome video, thanks! Hey - I was going to let my two tomato plants from last year (which are in 12" pots) just die off, since most of the foliage has died, but there is still some new growth near the TOP of each plant. Can I take cuttings from there? Hate to throw it all away when there's still life! Thanks 😉
I would do it just to see if it works! My guess is that yes you have a chance at the plant still having enough life in it to give you a good start on a new one.
I put the cuttings in a cup of water yesterday and stuck them on my windowsill. Gotta pick up some potting mix and all the good stuff before planting! Thanks!
Fabulous!!!
thanks :)
Super ...
When tomato season is over the actual plant does it need to be removed from the garden or is there was way to keep it safe from winter until spring
We move ours inside.
I had cherry tomatoes until this ( frost I forgot I moved it on the patio ) morning. Today is the 4th of April I believe. Every day feels like Sunday with the 19 lockdown.
Great video. Very informative.
Anyways, is your cat a male or a female. (Coz female cats are the ones that really hunts the mice and rats) and that is true even to a pack of lions and other big cats. The female are mostly the great hunters while the males only likes to breed and steal a meal.
I don't suppose rooting hormone would hurt the cause..
I made the fatal error of letting some neem oil get too close to my tomatoes..(problems with cabbage worms a bit further down the row) Tomatoes REALLY hate the stuff..
Rooting hormone wouldn't hurt. I didn't know that tomatoes didn't like neem oil. I've never used it.
Blake Kirby well now ya know..it'll kill em..
You should put moore stem in the ground the bigger the root system the better .
😊
Totally trying this...
you need to put some rooting hormone to boost growing
Or just don't at hormones to your plants and let nature do it's thing:)
Interesting. Do not root hormone/ enhancer was used
Cutting out all the stems and leaves will not draw to much energy... The plant cuttings needs to photosynthesise
Why not just use the suckers. They are easier and are a better looking specimen.
Do you mean that I should plant the entire part that I pruned off instead of cutting it down further?
WENT TO MY LOCAL HOME DEPOT ,,,, ???? $ 9.99 FOR A DECENT TOMATO PLANT ? SNIP