Tomato cloning doesn’t mean GMO tomatoes. Cloning tomatoes is one of the easiest ways to get new healthy tomato plants started quickly. It can take you literally two minutes to clone a tomato…
Tomato cloning doesn’t mean GMO tomatoes. Cloning tomatoes is one of the easiest ways to get new healthy tomato plants started quickly. It can take you literally two minutes to clone a tomato…
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I do that with all the clippings it works with peppers too!?
The sucker on Tomatoes make good clone.?
I mixed 1 cup liquid dish washing soap (for washing dishes by hand) and 1
gallon of water and sprayed it on all my plants to kill aphids and leaf
legged stink bugs. When I saw a stink bug I put it in a jar to see if the
spray affected them. The stink bug nymphs died within 10 seconds. The
adults took about 5 minutes to die. I hope this helps anyone fighting these
insects. I have a post on facebook.com/groups/MittldierGardening with
pictures of the dead stink bugs.
Can it be possible for sucker tomatoes grow on land without rooting it in
water? good to know your updates on same suckers planted.
Also have you a method or have you found anything non toxic that deals with
stink bugs that works? Last year they came with force and destroyed my
tomato crops. Hoping to avoid that this time around. I only use neem oil
pesticides and BT for the worms but the neem does not kill the stink bugs.
Thanks
Is a mittleider garden better then a regular garden even if you don’t add
any fertilizer or vitamins to a mittleider garden.
LDSPrepper, great instructional video. I’ve gone from method to method.
Currently using water only to get tomato cuttings to begin rooting. Thanks
for sharing this, it just makes good sense.
if you are suppose to take the suckers off in mitleiider method then how
does improve the harvest fi you take the suckers off that produce the
tomatoes …. I DONT GET THAT ….. I am confused and I have been meening
to ask that question for a lonnng time
The plants will do better if you shade the clones for a week or so.
Thank you for all the wonderful gardening tips LDS! I agree that it is SOO
MUCH better to use the suckers to start new plants. Thanks for sharing all
that you share. 🙂
I have some sweet potatoes in the house that are sprouting. Can I just
break the slips off and plant them ? Do you allow a little chunk of potato
on the end of the slip? Is it too hot now in TX to do that? Great vid.
Please watch my tomato pruning video. You can find it in the Mittleider
gardening playlist.
I’m not LDSPrepper. But i do my trimming with scissors. I don’t like trying
to break the stuff off with my hands as it can cause it to rip and not be a
clean cut. Pruning depends on the type of tomato. Determinants don’t need
much and indeterminate need it. Actually i pruned my determinants but i did
not prevent 100% of the suckers from forming as you want to have a somewhat
bush. I prune up to the first set of fruits and thin out leafs to help with
airflow and for spraying stuff.
Excellent video, thank you. Could you please tell how long it will take for
those clones to produce the fruits? In our Michigan climate I’m afraid
cloning at any time may be too late because they are very much delayed
comparing to their parent plants. thank you.
Your sand/sawdust mix is ideal for doing “cloning” root cuttings. it is
light and it is easy for the water/nutrients/ roots to move through it. I
used a simular mix when I did hardwood cuttings (branches new wood) from
bushes and ground covers. Many plants can be propigated from cuttings. This
method can be used to create may plants from one. This is an inexpensive
way to make your place also look good. The eye and the soul also needs
nurishment as wellas the body
Great information!! I have a ton of heirloom tomatoes this year just from
rooting the suckers in soil. They only take a few days to root. I just put
them in a container of moist soil. Works great!!
Very informative, I must admit that I’m a bit behind on all of your videos
and I’m not sure that I’ll get caught up for quite some time. This video
was very clear and concise.
peppers and tomatillos too
Sweet potato tops is a very good leafy salad, and had good nutrients, and
easy to grow, while from the roots sweets potatoes comes up. Looks healthy
and more tops .. means more leafy salads.
You are brave to try and start those suckers in our Houston Heat… I
probably would have stuck them in a big cup/bucket of good soil and placed
them indoors in some good light for a week or two to get the roots going.
if you can find some of those large sized Styrofoam cups they would work
great. Then when ready they are easy to cut open and transplant. its hard
enough to keep a healthy plant from wilting in these 100+ degree days.
I don’t think so but you can trim them back real good and have a plant for
a year or two if you can keep it from freezing. Check out MHPgardener
recent video about his peeper plants.
It IS used correctly. Suckers on tomatoes aren’t plants growing from the
roots of the main plant, they’re lateral shoots growing from the junction
of other shoots and the main stem. Go ahead and find me a sucker on a
tomato plant that isn’t located exactly where the video producer indicated.
You can’t, because that’s the only sucker on a tomato plant, right? Right.
Good video however what you call a “sucker” is just called a branch or
shoot. In botany, a ‘sucker’ is a plant growing off the roots of the main
plant that pops up from the soil some distance away.
Thank you.