CLONE Tomatoes (for FREE Plants)
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Cloning tomatoes using vegetative propagation is remarkably easy to do. Making unlimited copies of a favorite tomato plant ensures that gardeners can always grow a plant they know will do well in their garden. Gardener Scott discusses and shows how to to clone tomato plants. (Video #389)
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That was what was right in my garden this year…any sturdy branch I pruned off I then immediately put it in the garden ground. Water well and mulch. They are doing well. I also have one in water on my counter. It’s already putting out roots. Want to try to pot it and keep it growing thru out winter. Want to try the potting method. Love my Black Krim so this is the plant I am propagating.
I had a wild side branch shading other plants so I tried to tie it up. Well, as happens, it broke off the main stem so I stripped off the bottom leaves and laid it semi horizontally in my garden. Here we are about 6 weeks later and it has a very nice looking tomato maturing on it. I took a hint from the way to plant hearty transplants where you remove all the lower leaves and just bury that stem up to the remaining leaves. Roots develop all along the buried part and give a more robust plant. I usually cannot dig deep enough to plant those vertically but it works great just sort of laying the stem in a deep trench.
Last year, right before the frost, I cut out the top of one vigorously growing beefsteak. I grew it in a pot in my south facing window all winter and come April I had a dozen tomatoes. Then put it out on a hill and let it sprawl wildly. The squirrels have eaten every tomato it’s made since, but it’s still going strong. Planning on trying it again this winter.
Squirrels don't like wood ash if I'm not mistaken. FYI. They haven't bothered my tomatoes that are staked but I have scallions planted all around the edges of my garden. Cheep because I save organic scallions all winter. Cut 2 or 3 inches at root end, rehydrate in water, leave in water changing water every couple days, cut all winter, plant in spring. Keeps rabbits out I know.
I have the opposite problem. I have 15 potted tomatoes in my house trying to keep them cool. The parents died of extreme heat and blight by the end of July. The bright side is, when I plant them out in late September we will have Christmas tomatoes. (It's been a hot summer in Florida this year. Even the Everglade tomatoes couldn't take it)
I recommend shade cloth. It helped my tomatoes. I was hitting 95F feels like 107F with humidity. The shade cloth kept the plants like 10-15F cooler underneath.
@@umiluv Wow. That much of a temperature difference? It's worth it. Do you just throw it over for my future reference. It has cooled to 58 degrees at night in Connecticut. Was blistering hot though and no rain.
Yes! I'm a stickler for pruning my tomato plants, but I always let some suckers get a little big before I pinch them out. Those then get stuck into the soil as additional plants. I don't think I've ever had a tomato clone fail. This year my Sun Gold population began with 3 plants, now 10 plants just from snapping off suckers & sticking them in the dirt, lol.
Wow! I thought I was an experienced gardener but I've never considered this. I will attempt to save some cloned tomato plants over winter this year ☺
Will definitely try this, especially putting tomato sucker in water with a bit of fertilizer.
Thank you. I’ll surely try cloning my tomatoes.
Thank you for the simplicity of this!
So clear and easy to understand, very informative, thank you.
This is also the mechanism by which the plant can repair itself if the top gets damaged by pests, or you accidentally cut it off or break the main stem. The closest sucker to the top will become the new top growth, and the main stem will adjust itself accordingly. A deer came by and ate the tops off several of my tomato plants earlier in the season, but they recovered and are now overgrowing the trellis.
my first batch of 28 plants comin off now.up to 45 tomatoes per plant incredible.bout to try and clone these
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Well. I've 2 beefsteak plants growing into monsters. But no tomatoes. Trying to be patient and maybe autumn cooler weather will get them going. But have some hybrids started to take their place.
Great GS 👍
Mr. Scott, I started my Master Gardeners course today. Thank you for encouraging me to do it. We have a group of ten in class and several who will be doing it via zoom. I am really looking forward to it. Wish the Master preserver course was still available but they removed it entirely from our state. I’m happy to see this video because my tomatoes are at the end of their growing cycle and my frost date isn’t til the first week in November so I’m hoping to do this and get a second crop. Started my fall seeds last week. 👩🌾👍☀️
Congratulations! I hope you enjoy it.
@@GardenerScott thank you. I’m quite sure I will.
This is a very good way to get more tomatoes. Great information. Cheers, Scott! ✌️
Very useful intel, I will try this. Thank you for sharing.
Oh Scott. Just in the kick of time. We waited topping off our indeterminate tomatoes just in case of a very heavy rain expected hoping our huge almost ready tomatoes wouldn't crack. We have been watering them w. city water because rain barrel has run dry. I use filtered water to cook potatoes, boiled eggs etc so will be using that in the garden. We grew our tomatoes from seeds and were just so tall wall we lay them down in a trench like you teach. We have 40 tomatoes, temperature dropped to 58 tonight. Been in 100's, 90's, 80's humid no rain. Thank you Scott.
That's fantastic. I did not know that. Will try it for sure
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! We had no idea you could do this! This will be such a huge help! Thank you!
I just watched your video on the fruit trees what we always did with fruit trees even when they were little was putting tennis shoes on the limbs to make the limbs stronger when the tree produced fruit you remove the shoes and put them back on once the fruit falls when the tree is big enough you have to add rocks to the shoes and it makes the limbs strong enough to support a bumper crop
That's a creative way to strengthen trees. Thanks.
I just put two clones in the ground today- Cherokee Purple and Early Girl. Hoping for a warm October, but they are under my cattle panel curve where the cucumbers are fizzling out, so I can cover it for light frost, as well. I also threw in some Cilantro seeds. I now plan to top my 4 interdeterminate tomatoes for clones to keep them going because why not? Thanks Gardener Scott!
What great timing! I just did this for the first time yesterday in order to get a jump start on my winter tomatoes (usually I grow them from seed, but I was out of town during my optimal seed-starting window). I put my cuttings in super moist potting mix and brought them in the house since it's over 100 degrees outside. They're wilting pretty badly, so we'll see if any of them survive. Gardening is always an experiment!
Thanks Scott! Great Info!
I've started that this year. One is doing well. One is struggling, but should catch up. I've become addicted and started two more.
Wow! Thank You for the great ideas! I knew about making new plants from suckers, but never thought of keeping them going in succession through the winter. My mind is racing! I will find a way to do this!
I finally figured out why several seeds are put in one spot and most of them are pulled back out, it turns out that some seeds barely grow, or make tiny plants, and we can't know until it's too late. I've noticed this with strawberry and radish seedlings, some do amazing, and those are the ones we need if we're going to get any food from the garden when they're ready. Nature does this by setting down a seed stalk in one spot, and dropping them all together. Things like green onions like to have many seeds scratched into one spot, and they do perfectly. If the entire garden is seeded evenly, one thing takes over everything and the entire garden fails, so bunching them up is the way to go, a spot here, a spot there, for everything~
Thanks Scott
I did this 2 months ago. The new plant is already fruiting.
I like to keep the sucker in water and let the roots really go crazy, then plant
Thank you for this inspiring video and the clear demonstrations!
Wow great idea thank you for sharing I had no idea!
Great tips and advice as always. Thank you
Good stuff as always, Scott. A couple of questions. Can you do this with determinate varieties? What about hybrids (the "you can't plant a hybrid seed and expect the same plant/fruit still has me perplexed, but perhaps this is a way around that). Cheers.
You can do it with determinates, but early when the plant is young. It's ideal for hybrids because you can get the same plant without the gamble of seeds.
Nice. Thanks.
...How did you go about bending angles to those corrugated roofing sheets ?
I cut them and didn't bend them. Here's how I did it: ruclips.net/video/3GUEfP9K07o/видео.html
@@GardenerScott I see. Thanks for that video too. But on this video, your rectangular mid bed you are sitting on between 3:15 to 4:10 has corrugate sheets that seems nicely corner curved to 90 degree angles. Those are the bends I am addressing :)
Hi Gardener Scott. I also live on the Front Range. Which is your favorite heirloom tomato to grow in this climate? I've grown the pineapple tomato with success, but I'd like a red beefsteak-type for next year.
My favorite full-size tomato is Black Krim. I've had great success with cherry tomatoes like Sungold, Sweet 100, and Lemon Drop. I haven't been able to grow a beefsteak with regular success.
Great video! What common plants can be cloned besides tomatoes and strawberries? Peppers?
Others can be cloned, but there is usually more work involved. Many herbs are generally easy to do. Peppers and other plants that can be grown from cuttings will work.
Thank you for the information. Probably going to do this with a beefsteak-like tomato such as Thorburn’s Terra Cotta. Technically, the University of Florida says I can start tomatoes in September. However, the Arctic Blast turned the stems into mush while under the frost covers in November/December.
Wow, fantastic tips & tricks, Scott! THANK YOU! Question: Does this only work with indeterminant tomato plants or can I clone Romas too?
It can be done with young determinate tomatoes, but the plant may not support multiple generations like indeterminates.
@@GardenerScott Multiple generations. Better way of saying what it is. Cloning is too sci fi. with negative connotations.
@@GardenerScott I see. Thank you for taking the time to reply to my question. Best to you.
So cool! Can we clone cucumbers via their suckers too? Thanks, Scott!
You can clone most anything with a non woody stem. Peppers, cucs. Zucchini eggplant. Get suckers or new fresh growth tip without any buds.
I like to Clone some annuals too like coleus, sweet potato vine. They’re easy and grow fast once roots take in a few days. Plant all over.
@@Changesonemack awesome! Thank you so much!
The only place to grow creole tomato is in plaquemine soil. Do I need to use the plaquemine soil to start my creole tomato seeds indoors
Seeds do well when started in a soilless seed starter mix or a light potting mix.
One of my tomatoes (indoor Kratky) started having lighter leaves (right on the cusp of yellowing) after I had just given it a new solution a few days earlier. I checked the EC and the reading was about 3.5 when I then checked the pH and it had shot up to 6.7. Would that be nutrient lockout and the problem? Everything is healthy looking but an entire branch of leaves about to yellow means something was wrong, so I chunked the solution to give it some 5.86 pH, and 3.6 EC.
Gardener Scott. Question ❓. It's not too late to plant tomatoes is it? Just curious. I can do this today if there is enough time to grow.
It depends on how much time you have left before first frost date and the variety of tomato. Fast-producing tomatoes may have time.
@@GardenerScott awesome Thank you! Soo like cherry tomatoes
Question where do you get the cattle panel trellis?
I made my own trellis with a cattle panel from a local ranch supply store. For me it's Big 'R.
@@GardenerScott I bought some metal t posts (3) I want to put a cattle panel across them. If I owned the place I would definitely be interested in the raised beds. I put up an 8 ft tall fence on one of the boundaries 75 foot long! Raised bed along it I figured cost prohibited.
Voles are eating all of mine.
PS again you can use my name