Place a glob of damp potting soil in that hand and wrap it around a branch of the tomato plant. when it has roots cut it off and transplant it blossoms and all. instant producing tomato plant.
I love the mini greenhouse method. I accidentally severed a small branch with flowers on it while pruning back a sun sugar tomato plant today. I'm going to see if I can rescue it. It's in a cup of water now and will put it in soil in the morning. Thanks!
I’m cackling because my poor hubby, who’s a city guy is going to freak out at the amount of freezer ziplock bags with plants that will be in our sunroom this winter.🤣🤣🤣👩🏾🌾🪴🪴🌱🌱
I’m definitely a granny rooter. I just cannot get anything to root another way. I’ve tried! Those little rooter pots, regular soil, vermiculite, etc - with and without powder/liquid rooting hormone - and they ALWAYS rot. But water? Psh. That’s like 90% success rate. Granny knows her stuff!
I'm cracking up laughing at myself. I have a rouge tomato from a compost pile and it's growing like crap. I've got the tomato cage, great dirt, great everything. Just realized it's gotta be an everglade. I'll tip the pot on it's side and it will do great.
I’m trying for the first time to grow a tomato plant from a Sucker cutting. It didn’t grow any roots in the water after five days so I put it on into dirt. It’s a little floppy, I hope it makes it through.
I’ve had a lot more luck putting them straight into their own little pot of soil, then I put the pot on a saucer and keep the saucer full of water. Takes much faster in my case-maybe a few days.
Rooted 6 or so tomato cuttings directly in beds this spring since we had compost in raised beds and plenty of rain for weeks. They are doing great and starting to make flowers and fruit.
Excellent video. Thank you. Question: it is almost October in Raleigh NC. I want take cuttings for the next season. Do I do this, and repeat the cycle with the new plants in the Spring? What is the best timing to do this. We have some excellent tomato plants that we had growing this year.
Yes, it does exactly the same job as rooting hormone, it's just the diy equivalent. You've just reminded me I need to make some now we're getting some good new willow summer growth where I am in the UK 👍👊
The best method is #2 which I learned by accident. One year I let my tomato plants spraul (no support) and wherever they touched the ground roots began to grow. I buried that part deeper and kept it watered real good. Sometimes I would cut it off the main plant and bury deep and a kept the soil watered.
Awesome! I'll give all three of these methods a side-by-side just because, why not. LOL. I've got a heirloom Homestead variety and an heirloom Bradley variety that I can test on. Also looking forward to germinating some Everglade seeds I purchased from your daughter's store! My plants never grew back after hurricane Irma, so I'm excited to grow them. 🐝🐝🐝✌️
I liked when you took a slice of tomato and buried it, I think, in your freezer garden : ) but I do either- right into the ground or the mini greenhouse x/ for my sweet basil, that roots in a few days in fresh water : ) thanks for the demo's, I am a visual learner : )
Layering is pretty neat. Seems like there's lots of fun to be had there. Ya know, I've never had a single success with putting suckers in water, but this year I've been sticking them in with my patio container plants, and they've just about all taken off. Looks like I'm running a tomato farm behind my camper.
Thank you. I literally just put in a cutting of my tomato last night into the soil. It looked really sad and droopy today and I wonder if I killed it. I'm keeping the soil moist and I hope it'll perk up and look better in a day or two.
@@davidthegood Thanks for the replies guys. I'm going to give it a try, too. Thanks for the inspiration also - I love the fact that there's always something new to try in the garden. Best wishes.
@@davidthegood Well, a year has passed and I have an update on my tests. Yes, it did work. They grew to be normal fruiting plants. Just as interesting is the fact that I could prune exiting plants back and they reflowered within the same season (although a bit late for ripening). If they were in pots, I could have brought them indoors and had a full second harvest.
Can I indefinitely propogate tomato plants? So like take a cutting in the fall, keep them alive with a grow light in the winter, then plant them in the garden in the summer, than in the fall take a cutting etc etc so that I have a tomato plant propagating without seeds for 20 yrs?
Thanks for a well thought-out presentation. Very informative. Often I will find a good-sized sucker I snap off and I immediately stick it in the ground. Roots quick and easy. Anything for more tomatoes!
I'm in NW WA, and I use method #2 for tomatoes, even peppers & most herbs. I actually just snapped off some low suckers from my San Marzano plants & stuck them in the dirt a week ago. They looked pathetic at first, but they're standing back up now, and I'm sure they'll produce fruit. Method #3 is a must for blueberries.
I’ve been thinking about doing this since it gets so hot mid summer nothing sets, and then when the come back to life they don’t have time to ripen before a frost. We will be trying it this year!
That brick or somesuch placed to keep the re-planted tomato vine down in the dirt - it could also serve as a good place to step when you are moving around the thick garden among the tomato vines. You'd just want to pick something more or less flat and level to do it.
Oy - grew Brandywines last two seasons and they wanted to take over the world, but they sure were scrumptious! Wish I could get my fig trees to be so productive. .. I know what! I'll ask David the Good - you maybe has a video (or 5) on that?
I am propagating my fig trees... stripe all leaves from cutting, bury the cutting deep to increase chances of roots, water water water! Rooting fig trees takes months so just be patient 🙏 🌱 🌻
@@notmyfault6835 A more reliable method for propagating fig trees is to air root a branch or sucker while it's still on the tree. In 4-6 weeks, their will be sufficient roots to remove the branch/sucker and pot. And if you use a clear plastic bag, you'll be able to see the roots and know when it is time to remove it thus guaranteeing success.
I must admit, I have never, ever, EVER been able to get cuttings from tomatoes to take. I've also never been able to (deliberately) start them from seed (now, dropped bbq leftovers left on the ground resulting in weird and wacky supermarket mutants coming up between the cement pavers? I can do that). Yes, I know. Judge away. It's a source of embarrassment for me. I've propagated some really unique and rare things without knowing what they were by simply taking a piece and sticking it into some crap dirt in a corner of my yard and forgetting about them until someone says "WHERE DID YOU GET ONE OF THOSE!?!" But tomatoes? I've put my back into that. I get lovely little rotting sludge piles, or dried up sad little leaves. le sigh. Time for me to try again. I've never tried layering. I might give that a go this year.
My Florida soil is very sandy and nutrient-poor. However, these are everglades tomatoes and supposed to like that sort of bad soil. How much and what kind of amendment will I need. Zone 10a (subtropical) near a brackish water harbor close to the Gulf of Mexico. Thanks. My favorite channel.
I was so excited to see cherry tomatoes growing after just squirting them on the ground after watching one of your videos where you mentioned that. Unfortunately, something came and ate the first two baby tomatoes while they were small and green, and has since been (it seems) nipping off all the flowers before they produce. Any idea what that might be? Thanks for the videos, God has used you as a great source of gardening inspiration :)
My first year trying to grow tomatillos and there’s dozens of little ones growing but this morning two of the branches broke down to the ground from the weight. Guess you’re supposed to cage them ..
Wondering if cuttings of micro-tomatoes and determinants would still produce tomatoes? I've done this with indeterminate, and Rutgers, but not other types.
I stuck a broken tomato stem in a little cup of water and left it outside. Some days I forgot to add water and the roots were exposed. But it got good roots and I stuck it in a pot. After a few days it took off and is doing well!
Me too. Then I went strolling through the garden section at the store just laughing, while adding up how many tomato plants I just cloned and the monetary value if I were to buy.
@@NoNORADon911 nope. ....well technically every staple crop we grow has been "genetically modified" through our selective breeding processes but actually getting up in them genes with outright scientific molecular manipulation....nope . From seed originally. Non-gmo
Ordered the free plants for everyone and I am really hoping you cover blueberries in it. I have a serious addiction to blueberries and apparently so do the local deer....... I NEED MORE and those babies are expensive at the nursery
now that was interesting since I'm a granny I guess I need to do it the granny method
Lol.go for it you've earned it 😊
Liked and shared to my FB group.
Thank you, Scott.
Hey Y’all from Arkansas!😊
I did this not long ago too pulled suckers off and rooted them. Strong looking plants so far. It was my first go at it.
Thanks David!!
Great video thank you God bless
Place a glob of damp potting soil in that hand and wrap it around a branch of the tomato plant. when it has roots cut it off and transplant it blossoms and all. instant producing tomato plant.
Great video, I’ve grown lots of tomatoes from cuttings but always indeterminate, would rooting determinant cuttings “reset” their biological clock?
I also Wonder !
I really want to know. If any of yall find out, let me know!
I love the mini greenhouse method. I accidentally severed a small branch with flowers on it while pruning back a sun sugar tomato plant today. I'm going to see if I can rescue it. It's in a cup of water now and will put it in soil in the morning. Thanks!
I’m cackling because my poor hubby, who’s a city guy is going to freak out at the amount of freezer ziplock bags with plants that will be in our sunroom this winter.🤣🤣🤣👩🏾🌾🪴🪴🌱🌱
I’m definitely a granny rooter. I just cannot get anything to root another way. I’ve tried! Those little rooter pots, regular soil, vermiculite, etc - with and without powder/liquid rooting hormone - and they ALWAYS rot. But water? Psh. That’s like 90% success rate. Granny knows her stuff!
Me too
I think the first and second methods are the best… you practically spend nothing to do them unlike having to buy plastic bags.
Propagating tomatoes is SO FUN! I have done so many this year that I literally have so everywhere-too many! Good problem to have, though thank God.
That's definitely a great idea. Same plant , new life! Wow
Can you use the mini green house method on any plant, and can the Ziploc bag be bigger?
I use white trash bags for larger stuff. I also have a large clear tupperware container were i put pots in if i’m rooting several plants.
I'm cracking up laughing at myself. I have a rouge tomato from a compost pile and it's growing like crap. I've got the tomato cage, great dirt, great everything. Just realized it's gotta be an everglade. I'll tip the pot on it's side and it will do great.
I need to try the baggie method with my zombie yellow pear tomato.
fantastic!
Dear David!
Greetings from Shizuoka in Japan!
Very useful information!
Working on it at once!
Best regards,
Robert-Gilles Martineau
Thank you for sharing this, I didn't know you could do this
Nicely done! Great teaching video. Thanks 🙂
I also use rooting hormone on certain things
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I’m trying for the first time to grow a tomato plant from a Sucker cutting. It didn’t grow any roots in the water after five days so I put it on into dirt. It’s a little floppy, I hope it makes it through.
I’ve had a lot more luck putting them straight into their own little pot of soil, then I put the pot on a saucer and keep the saucer full of water. Takes much faster in my case-maybe a few days.
You should start a tomatoes cuttings in a green house.
it will die. cuttings never survive whatever you try
@@uk82punkz I put one directly in the soil next to its parent plant and now it’s growing.
@@uk82punkzmaybe you just suck at gardening
I use 2 liter bottles in 1 gallon pots for my mini greenhouse. I need to make use of my diet poison pop habit. Currently doing this with chia
Rooted 6 or so tomato cuttings directly in beds this spring since we had compost in raised beds and plenty of rain for weeks.
They are doing great and starting to make flowers and fruit.
Nice machete? I have one like that from Ghana. I love it.
Excellent video. Thank you. Question: it is almost October in Raleigh NC. I want take cuttings for the next season. Do I do this, and repeat the cycle with the new plants in the Spring? What is the best timing to do this. We have some excellent tomato plants that we had growing this year.
Does willow water help them root?
Yes, it does exactly the same job as rooting hormone, it's just the diy equivalent. You've just reminded me I need to make some now we're getting some good new willow summer growth where I am in the UK 👍👊
I put cuttings in my HOB aquarium filter. They grow roots rather quickly.
Awesome idea ! TY🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
The best method is #2 which I learned by accident. One year I let my tomato plants spraul (no support) and wherever they touched the ground roots began to grow. I buried that part deeper and kept it watered real good. Sometimes I would cut it off the main plant and bury deep and a kept the soil watered.
I replanted my everglades tomatoes and I've got some nice sprouts growing now.
Awesome! I'll give all three of these methods a side-by-side just because, why not. LOL. I've got a heirloom Homestead variety and an heirloom Bradley variety that I can test on. Also looking forward to germinating some Everglade seeds I purchased from your daughter's store! My plants never grew back after hurricane Irma, so I'm excited to grow them. 🐝🐝🐝✌️
I liked when you took a slice of tomato and buried it, I think, in your freezer garden : ) but I do either- right into the ground or the mini greenhouse x/ for my sweet basil, that roots in a few days in fresh water : ) thanks for the demo's, I am a visual learner : )
Layering is pretty neat. Seems like there's lots of fun to be had there.
Ya know, I've never had a single success with putting suckers in water, but this year I've been sticking them in with my patio container plants, and they've just about all taken off. Looks like I'm running a tomato farm behind my camper.
The quickest way for me is straight into potting soil or the ground. They droop for a day or so, but usually thrive.
Thank you. I literally just put in a cutting of my tomato last night into the soil. It looked really sad and droopy today and I wonder if I killed it. I'm keeping the soil moist and I hope it'll perk up and look better in a day or two.
Great video. Does anybody know what would happen if you tried this with a determinate / bush tomato?
We should try it!
I’ll try it. That’s all I have
@@davidthegood Thanks for the replies guys. I'm going to give it a try, too. Thanks for the inspiration also - I love the fact that there's always something new to try in the garden. Best wishes.
@@davidthegood Well, a year has passed and I have an update on my tests. Yes, it did work. They grew to be normal fruiting plants. Just as interesting is the fact that I could prune exiting plants back and they reflowered within the same season (although a bit late for ripening). If they were in pots, I could have brought them indoors and had a full second harvest.
San Diego growing zone 10b checking in 🌱 🙌 🙏
Me too
Can I indefinitely propogate tomato plants? So like take a cutting in the fall, keep them alive with a grow light in the winter, then plant them in the garden in the summer, than in the fall take a cutting etc etc so that I have a tomato plant propagating without seeds for 20 yrs?
GENIUS! Thanks David.
What a cool channel.
Hi
Any idea where I can find a reliable vendor for Everglades tomato seeds?
Try Strickly medicinal seeds, Johnny seeds, or checkout your favorite RUclipsrs and asking if he can sell you tomatoes cuttings
His daughter sells them on their Esty shop I believe. I do not see a link in the Video Description area though.
This is the link to our daughters etsy page where she sells everglades tomato seeds. www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens
I went to eBay
What video should I watch to learn about support fencing for tomatoes and beans and peas?
Thanks for a well thought-out presentation. Very informative. Often I will find a good-sized sucker I snap off and I immediately stick it in the ground. Roots quick and easy. Anything for more tomatoes!
I'm in NW WA, and I use method #2 for tomatoes, even peppers & most herbs. I actually just snapped off some low suckers from my San Marzano plants & stuck them in the dirt a week ago. They looked pathetic at first, but they're standing back up now, and I'm sure they'll produce fruit. Method #3 is a must for blueberries.
Air layering David! Great video by the way. Been super busy. Not much time for the Tube.
Whaaaaat?!? Amazing!! ♥️ ♥️
Excellent! Thank you
I’ve been thinking about doing this since it gets so hot mid summer nothing sets, and then when the come back to life they don’t have time to ripen before a frost. We will be trying it this year!
That's a smart idea! Skip the hot midsummer month by propagating tomato cuttings indoors at that time.
That brick or somesuch placed to keep the re-planted tomato vine down in the dirt - it could also serve as a good place to step when you are moving around the thick garden among the tomato vines. You'd just want to pick something more or less flat and level to do it.
Hi David, are ths tomatos organic or hybrid? Thanx.
My Everglades Tomato plants are so invasive that they have overwhelmed the neighboring Passion Fruit vines.
Can I do the third method with seed?
"Feed them ... anything!" 😂 Love it!! 💜💜
THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR TECHNIQUES!!!... I'M ON IT!!!😃👍🏽🌱🌿🙋🏽♀️🔥🙏🏽👑✝️📖🔥
Oy - grew Brandywines last two seasons and they wanted to take over the world, but they sure were scrumptious! Wish I could get my fig trees to be so productive. .. I know what! I'll ask David the Good - you maybe has a video (or 5) on that?
I am propagating my fig trees... stripe all leaves from cutting, bury the cutting deep to increase chances of roots, water water water! Rooting fig trees takes months so just be patient 🙏 🌱 🌻
@@notmyfault6835 A more reliable method for propagating fig trees is to air root a branch or sucker while it's still on the tree. In 4-6 weeks, their will be sufficient roots to remove the branch/sucker and pot. And if you use a clear plastic bag, you'll be able to see the roots and know when it is time to remove it thus guaranteeing success.
@@notmyfault6835 Funny you mention this - I've been thinking about trying it. Thanks!
I must admit, I have never, ever, EVER been able to get cuttings from tomatoes to take. I've also never been able to (deliberately) start them from seed (now, dropped bbq leftovers left on the ground resulting in weird and wacky supermarket mutants coming up between the cement pavers? I can do that). Yes, I know. Judge away. It's a source of embarrassment for me. I've propagated some really unique and rare things without knowing what they were by simply taking a piece and sticking it into some crap dirt in a corner of my yard and forgetting about them until someone says "WHERE DID YOU GET ONE OF THOSE!?!" But tomatoes? I've put my back into that. I get lovely little rotting sludge piles, or dried up sad little leaves. le sigh. Time for me to try again. I've never tried layering. I might give that a go this year.
You left the flowers on the one you stuck straight into the ground, timestamp 6:56.
Send him to the dungeon! It puts the lotion on its skin!
@@NoNORADon911 it puts the lotion on or it gets the hose again 🤣
My Florida soil is very sandy and nutrient-poor. However, these are everglades tomatoes and supposed to like that sort of bad soil. How much and what kind of amendment will I need. Zone 10a (subtropical) near a brackish water harbor close to the Gulf of Mexico. Thanks. My favorite channel.
In my garden tomatoes sprout like weeds
Good tips make great gardens. Thanks DTG.
I love the book. There's allot of plants i don't know in it though, lol!
Can propagate our peppers 🌶️ also? Thank you 🙏 this is so cool 😎 waiting for your answer
I was so excited to see cherry tomatoes growing after just squirting them on the ground after watching one of your videos where you mentioned that. Unfortunately, something came and ate the first two baby tomatoes while they were small and green, and has since been (it seems) nipping off all the flowers before they produce. Any idea what that might be? Thanks for the videos, God has used you as a great source of gardening inspiration :)
Good video. Thanks.
Why not add a little miracle grow in the water for tomatoes in your Granny method???
My first year trying to grow tomatillos and there’s dozens of little ones growing but this morning two of the branches broke down to the ground from the weight. Guess you’re supposed to cage them ..
DTG throw a couple well rotted tomatoes in your worm bin you will have dozens of little tomato plants growing on a couple of weeks
I mixed in Fish Imulsion 5-1-1 with the water. A little nitrogen.
High tunnels for the future
I used the granny method two years in a row. Both times after moving from water to soil, they died. What am I doing wrong?!
Hi David thanks for sharing this video. 👌
I forgot to mention the variety I planted is the Everglades tomato .
Hi David, can I use green house method for rose cutting?
Is it recommended to add some fish emulsion to the jar of water?
Worth trying.
👍👍😊
David will this work for raspberries?
I was looking at my maters and thinking i could do that
Thank you for the great lesson.
excellent video, thank you
Good information. Thanks!
Wondering if cuttings of micro-tomatoes and determinants would still produce tomatoes? I've done this with indeterminate, and Rutgers, but not other types.
Thanks for the info David.
I'm going to try this and hopefully multiply my cherry tomatoes
Do you change the water with method #1? Or leave it as is for 2 weeks? I found that the bottoms get mushy sitting in the water after 1 week.
I've been waiting for some informational videos!!!
Thank you oh great one
How can I grow tomatoes indoors during the winter?
Try a grow tent! I grew mine in December and they are fruiting now as of May 1st
I tried all of those ways with different plans I think putting in water works the best
Just the info I was looking for! Very helpful!
All I got from the granny method was slimy plants that perished.
I stuck a broken tomato stem in a little cup of water and left it outside. Some days I forgot to add water and the roots were exposed. But it got good roots and I stuck it in a pot. After a few days it took off and is doing well!
@@juliealbright4245 I just have never had luck with rooting (with or without hormone) regardless what method I try.
I stick them directly in the soil and they grew.
Me too. Then I went strolling through the garden section at the store just laughing, while adding up how many tomato plants I just cloned and the monetary value if I were to buy.
@@obligatedobservation5878 Are they GMO?
@@NoNORADon911 nope. ....well technically every staple crop we grow has been "genetically modified" through our selective breeding processes but actually getting up in them genes with outright scientific molecular manipulation....nope . From seed originally. Non-gmo
Great channel 👏 thanks
all the grandmothers
David the Great!
Very interesting techniques, thanks for sharing
how long does it take the cutting to root directly in the ground?
Thank you!!!!
Ordered the free plants for everyone and I am really hoping you cover blueberries in it. I have a serious addiction to blueberries and apparently so do the local deer....... I NEED MORE and those babies are expensive at the nursery
You can buy tulle in bulk very inexpensively on ebay to protect your plants.
Thank You.
10:18 - 10:27. Boy did you say a mouthful. Ha ha
I think a nice clump of elephant ears here and there would be nice. Big leaves. Lots of mulch. Eat the tubers!
Good idea.