Tomato Cuttings

Last year I tried taking cuttings from tomato plants, it worked very well.

Get the largest plants you can find in the Garden Centre, let the sideshoots grow to about 3-4ins. Break them out and dip in hormone rooting powder then set in a 3-4in pot. These will grow on and fruit not much later than the original plants. One plant will give 4-6 cuttings, very useful if you want the high priced ones.

 

Ohhh sounds good, might have to see what i can find over the weekend! Thanks! :gnthb:

 

Good tip Larkshall.:thumb:

 

Works everytime and in my experience you dont need rooting powder.

 

Its not something I tend to do much as I usually have too many tom plants anyway, but its a good way of coming up with another plant in say June or early July if you have a problem with one or two seed grown plants.

Potatoes take from cuttings also, just out of interest.

 

Interesting about potatoes, I suppose it stands to reason as they are related. I shall have to try it. I know it used to be a common thing to cut the seed potatoes, seal the cut surfaces with ash or similar and plant them. Find potatoes with plenty of chits and cut between two groups of chits.

 

That is interesting about potatoes. I feel an experiment coming on.

 

I wouldn't recommend it as a way of actually growing lots of spuds.

But then I've never tried it from early in the season, only about july time.

Would be interesting perhaps to cut some of the shoots off of a potato and root them up in pots, planting out in perhaps May, and see what you get.