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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fall tomato cuttings
  • Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:14:52 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks for the explanation. The pictures really help.....bobford


--- On Sun, 8/10/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Fall tomato cuttings
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 7:10 PM
> I tried to describe this in words and realized I was doing a
> poor job so I
> finally remembered to take the camera to the garden.
>
> This only works well with indeterminate tomatoes. They
> grow by making a
> node, a joint, where the main stem will keep on going,
> there will be a fruiting
> branch growing there, and in the crotch between the two, a
> sucker will form
> thus:
>
> www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/sucker.jpg
>
> If you broke off any part of a tomato plant, it would
> likely root. But these
> suckers at the nodes of indeterminate tomatoes are
> gentically, or cellularly,
> or whatever predisposed to think that they are a new
> independent plant.
>
> Put the sucker in a cup of soil. Water works too but not
> as well. In less
> than a week it will have doubled in size and roots will be
> to the edge of the
> pot. Transplant it like any tomato transplant ... but ...
> it will not sit in
> the ground and stare at you like a seedling. It will
> immediately begin to grow
> and bloom.
>
> Here a third of the way through August we are in the 99%
> sureness of having
> tomatoes from suckers potted today. But the end of August,
> the odds drop but
> still are 50%. It's worth a shot.
>
> Also, since I had the camera .... do you recall a
> discussion on Brussels
> Sprouts in the spring. I had resigned myself that I was
> doing the hopeless by
> trying spring sprouts, but did some experimentation. I
> planted some sprouts in
> sparse ground, hard ground, and shaded ground ... all
> things that were suppose
> to increase the odds of getting sprouts. As a control
> group I planted the
> last 21 plants in loose, very fertile ground in the full
> sun.
>
> Yep, the experiments all punied or died. The sacrificial
> control group ....
> yep, you guessed it. Against all odds, spring, hot
> weather, full sun, loose
> fertile ground ... they made the first firm harvestable
> sprouts in this garden!
>
> www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/bs.jpg
>
> Still ratty, but hey, they are real sprouts. All 21 plants
> are bearing a
> full complement of them. Go figure. </HTML>
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