Tomatoes from cuttings (forum)

Phil@Tyalgum starts with ...
I read recently that tomatoes grow well from cuttings. I tried a few from my favourite heirloom varieties and they have roots growing out of the bottom of the pots after only a week or so. They even take off in a vase of plain water. Could be a good way of speeding up growth to get fruit.
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Time: 7th October 2010 1:07pm

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Hayden says...
I will give it a try. Thanks!

Time: 7th October 2010 4:25pm

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Steven says...
Ive never thought of that. You can do that with basil too.

It might be a good idea to preserve your favorite tomato varieties. I grow several varieties each year so i dont trust growing them from seed.

Thanks

Time: 7th October 2010 6:16pm

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John Mc says...
Even the smallest lateral will strike and grow to be a clone of the parent. It's been the only way I've been able to persist with a commercial cultivar developed specifically for my area.
Here's some pics of the stock I keep overwinter, there's a pic with a single plant taken from the smallest lateral you wouldn't think it could possibly strike, and a couple of tomato cuttings growing in hydro pots.
Also, unrelated, but surprised me, a pic of a black sapote cutting that has struck and powering on.
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Time: 7th October 2010 7:31pm

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Lorna says...
Hey John Mc, I over Winter cuttings on my patio too, so that I can get a head start in Spring with some early plants. It works a treat, and the plants that I have there now are really healthy. We had a hard frost last night(!), that killed off the first tray of Roma seedling that I had going ready to plant out. They were at the stage of being hardened off outside the cloch, and got properly banjoed. The shoots on the Yacon are all burnt too. I was not expecting that now.

Time: 7th October 2010 10:02pm

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Randall says...
Would the F1 hybrids be able to be grown from cuttings?

Time: 9th October 2010 8:43am

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Lorna says...
Being an F1 hybrid does not effect the plants rooting ability. They will root just the same. Tomatoes are like weeds, you just snap them off, stick them in, and away they go.....
The laterals that I prune off to make single stem plants often throw roots out into the damp mulch and get themselves going!

Time: 9th October 2010 9:43am

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Helen says...
Can cherry tomatoes be grown from cuttings as well? I have a beautiful one some Italian friends gave me years ago and would like to share them.

Time: 10th October 2010 11:13am

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Jantina says...
Hi Helen, the short answer is yes.

Time: 10th October 2010 1:19pm

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Sandy says...
Thanks Phil, sounds like a great way of speeding up the growing season

Time: 10th October 2010 8:15pm

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Jimmy says...
I have just caught on to this myself and about 10 days ago put some of my pruned suckers in to jars of water with a miniscule amount of seaweed fertiliser. I have root systems about 5-10mm growing on the stems. How big should I let the root systems get before potting them?

Time: 14th October 2010 12:33pm

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Phil@Tyalgum says...
Probably wait 'til they're around 4-5cm, and pot them up into a sheltered spot. Mine have roots growing out of the bottom of the pot after only a week out of the vase.

Time: 14th October 2010 4:49pm

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Jimmy says...
Cheers Phil.

Time: 14th October 2010 4:58pm

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tecko says...
Great idea - worth a try. In my case, however, because I did not know about this method of propagation, I overwintered my Burke's Backyard tomatoes instead. They are flowering now! Are tomatoes perenials?

Time: 14th October 2010 6:20pm

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John Mc says...
the short answer is no techo. Saying that, I've over wintered tomatoes as well.
Some of the commercial guys keep tying the long stalks together like rope as the plant matures and lays it in the channel along the trellis. They could grow on indefinately with all the right conditions.
I tried to convince my commercial tomato mate to trial some clones on a row but he wouldn't be in it. He buys 10k plants at $1 ea. There's a reasonable amount of savings there and there is dozens of perfectly growing clones on each plant. Maybe the plants have PBR or something.


Time: 14th October 2010 7:24pm

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Brad says...
Techo- although you can get 2 crops off tomatoes, you're better off starting new seed/ seedlings or cuttings. Same with capsicum. Chillies are often worth letting go a few years and although I've not grown them yet I hear eggplant also. (All related plants)

Time: 15th October 2010 2:47am

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Julie says...
I find that my capsicums grow OK next season, but the fruit is usually smaller. I'm going to feed them better this time to see if that is an improvement.

Time: 15th October 2010 8:55pm

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brad says...
Agreed Julie. I probably should have prefaced my previous post with a comment that was based on a single round of comparisons so 1 year 2-3 plants max. Not a thorough effort to make the 2nd crop work better by any means

Time: 18th October 2010 10:13am

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