7 days from cut to root with 80% still alive is the best i have done but i have heard all kinds of different ways some way out in left field some so easy just cant be please helpll.......
2006-08-28 16:12:56 · 10 answers · asked by squishsquashybubbles 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
With a tomato, you don't even need to cut them. If you bend one of the vines down to the dirt, and cover a portion with dirt, water well, it will take root pretty quick. If you want to transplant, just cut the branch with your spade and dig a big scoop of dirt and rooted vine and off you go.
2006-08-28 16:18:37 · answer #1 · answered by mslorikoch 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are different ways to clone different plants; cuttings - as you are doing - work well for some and less well for others. Vine plants like tomatoes are best rooted while still connected to the parent. Bury a branch and wait a week or so. Keep that area moist (not wet). Uncover and you are very likely to see roots developed from the branch. Once the roots are well developed, cut the branch off and move the clone to its new home. Other ways can and do work but this is really easy and works quite well.
2016-03-26 23:37:31 · answer #2 · answered by Jennifer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make a diagonal cut to remove a branch and include part of the main stem.
Dip the exposed cut in a rooting hormone such as Rootone.
Stick the cut end in loose soil and keep it moist.
Presto -- you have "cloned" your plant.
2006-08-28 16:20:45 · answer #3 · answered by Jay 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take the cuttings and dip the end in hormone rooting power and then plant in some john innes No1 compost.
2006-08-28 16:20:01 · answer #4 · answered by Richard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agre with mslori___. When I plant my tomatoe plant I lay them on their sides in a trench and cober the main stem up tp where the leaves begin.. Roots will grow along the stem giving you a more hardy plant.
2006-08-28 23:14:28 · answer #5 · answered by Leslie S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude use peat pellets and root starter on your cuttings and you'll have better success
2006-08-28 16:17:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep it moist. The more leaves you pull off and deeper you are able to bury it the more roots you will have, possibly quicker
2006-08-29 05:25:43 · answer #7 · answered by Krispy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with mslorikoch....that is the best and easiest way to do it.
2006-08-28 16:30:44 · answer #8 · answered by redneckgardendiva 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is none
2006-08-28 16:14:00 · answer #9 · answered by Jonathan R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what?
2006-08-28 16:17:54 · answer #10 · answered by kc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋