How to Multiply your Tomato Plants FOR FREE | Propagating Suckers
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Today, I'm showing you how I propagate tomato suckers to make new plants!
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You are so genuine and helpful. Thank you so much. I’m a 70 year old Mimaw that has only been gardening about 4 years, so these videos are a tremendous help. Because of the Coronavirus, my age and health, my family didn’t want me to go out to the nurseries. I was late trying to get my transplants so when I ran to the nursery in March right before lockdown I didn’t pay attention and only got home with one indeterminate and the other five determinate. But, better than none. I’ve learned a lot from your videos. I will definitely try to use my suckers. God bless you and you sweet family.❤️🍅
I just ate a tomato sandwich for lunch and this popped up - I went right to the garden and pulled some suckers! Thanks!
Jess, I was amazed when I accidentally broke my spaghetti squash seedling in half (it was 5 inches long) and I almost threw it away but instead, put it in water and it rooted!!! It's now in soil and growing rapidly... 10 inches and has buds :)
I just did this for the first time last week and I can’t believe how easy it was! My tomato babies are already planted out after about a week and they are looking mighty fine.
I intentionally looked for plants to buy WITH suckers! Paid $3:27 and ended up getting 4 tomato plants out of one! Jess, I learned it all from you😉 Thanks so much!!!
Hi Jess! I have had some decent success starting tomato suckers. I totally agree, keeping the soil completely moist is super important or the sucker will wilt and be done. Partial shade helps with the stress as well. We have a shorter season here in NE Wyoming (last frost is June 1-10 depending on location), so starting suckers and getting a harvest is a complete gamble. It’s fun to try! ~ Nicole 🌻
I wish I'd seen this video years ago. You just saved me lots of money.
I had a random tomato plant break off from something and I stuck it in water. Came back a few days later and it had tons of roots! It's doing well now. I probably would have lost that plant if I hadn't heard of rooting them
Very informative! I like how you don't just ramble and actually stay on point with relative information!! Great video thank you
We had a tornado come through and snap a bunch of our big tomato branches. They had most of the fruits, so we mixed some rooting hormone into a vase of water. They rooted like crazy in a week. It was amazing to watch. I wish I had set up a camera for a time-lapse.
Best tomato rooting instructions ever🍅🌱🍅💚🍅
This is Carey McPherson, I'm so bad at computers, I have my husband's google-tube ID. Anyway, you are awesome, and a great teacher! Thanks for the videos and sharing your positive self. I am so glad you are getting so popular on here, because I think teaching people how to grow food is one of the best, most honest, giving ways we can spend time. I've made a school garden you can see on Facebook called Ucluelet School Garden. It's in zone 9a, a Rain forest in the most Western Canada. I love your greenhouse building videos, and all your tours. Thanks!
Carey, I also have my husband's u-tube ID. I just never got around to getting my own. I comment very seldom
Perfect timing, going to buy my tomato plants today! Wouldn't have to spend as much money on them. Thanks Jessica! Oh, almost forgot, I saw you, Miah and Ben on a commercial last week. I did a double take, I know them. I have no idea what the commercial was for.
Jess thanks so much you are saving me tons of money. Today I also bought three plants that had two in each after watching one of your videos. I love to share great ideas so I appreciate. Blessings to you my sister!
I am so happy to be able to share tomato plants I grew from seed with my pastor and other church members tonight. Thank you for helping me have the courage to grow from seed.
Per your recommendation, I ordered seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. I ordered Danvers and Purple Dragon Carrots,French Breakfast and Zlata Radish and Ruby Queen Beets. They sent me Ragged Jack Kale seeds free! I am super excited to grow them all here in Warren Michigan, just outside Detroit. Zone 5B. Also I purchased a bunch of Zinnia and Marigold and Cosmos seeds like 10 years ago and found the packs recently. I was unsure if the would germinate after so long a time. I checked the beds today and amazingly they are sprouting Yahoo. I will keep you posted . I love your Vlogs. Thank you!!
I have grown tomatoes for four decades, sometimes pruning, sometimes not. I never experimented with the suckers...until this week, thanks to your simple encouragement. 🌞
I placed them in a container with soil and am keeping the soil very wet. Day one they were droopy, day two they perked up and day 5 I saw new growth. Thank you!!!
Flower power shirt! Tomatoes are so much fun to grow! Your hair looks great! 🤗
Love learning from you, Jess. You are so knowledgeable about so many plants and animals. I had a Nubian goat that had triplets. We were so surprised. It was our first goat, but I moved to the Virgin Islands and had to leave my goats behind. They do have a saying down there because they don't have a lot of room for cattle, but they do have goats. The saying goes, "They can't get your goat if they don't know where it's tied". I actually bought a couple of our boys tee-shirts with that on them. I am trying to propagate some tomatoes but I don't think they are going to grow. I put them in water. Next time I may try starting them in soil. This is the first time I have ever had the variety of plants that I have now. You have been my inspiration. My husband was always the gardener. I told him he could plant a broom stick and it would grow. Love your VLOGs.
This video is exactly what I was hoping for! So excited!!!
Jess - if you ever want to do a video where you meet a local fan, I volunteer to be a guinea pig! I would love to get your opinion on how to maximize my small garden space!
I’ve got some in jars that have been growing roots for about 2 weeks, they all have a very healthy root system. Hoping to get them potted up tonight.
Thanks so much, I didn't know you could propagate tomatoes!
I love your videos. You’ve taught me so much. I planted half Danvers in a deep window box using your method, but instead of a piece of wood I used cardboard and I have carrots growing. I live in Brooklyn, New York, my side yard is long & somewhat narrow so I will be putting in a cow panel trellis to grow my cucumbers on this year. Thank you so much for all you do
This is so exciting! From this video and the one you describe the pruning process, I can't wait to get my tomato plant and get going. Thanks for sharing!
OMG, I am so glad that you made a video like this. I started propagating suckers last week and I was really looking forward to a video from you too as well. Great job and keep up with the good work. I love watching your videos daily. Greetings from Transylvania.
Your videos are so inspiring and educational -- I share them often with our local seed library patrons!
I was just wondering how your friend Dan and his family are doing? We haven't anything from him for a few weeks and just wanted to see how he's doing. Thank you!
I did this last year, both ways, and it was my first year gardening. First time I put them in water, the second time in little pots I kept wet. Both ways worked well. Its so easy to do.
Your channel is the best, I do watch others but your still on top
Thank you for this tip! one time I trellised my tomato plant to tightly and the support wasn't tall enough and my plant broke in half! i was super disappointed so I rooted it and got more fruit!! I think the idea of sending friends home with a jar of suckers is so sweet! I hope I can do something like that in the future!
Hi. Great info. Now I do mine in the ground. The bigger the better but the small plant works as well. If I break a Stem by accident I put the broken stem Horizontally it grows.lol.
With scissors I thinned two tomato seedling pots to the strongest plant. As an experiment I took the 4" (or so) cut tomato seedlings and placed them in water. They grew roots! I am going to pot them up and see what happens. Thank you Jess.
Thx. Had no idea. Big money and time saver. Always learning from you.
Wow! I have been gardening for a long time and didn't know that about the suckers!
Thanks for the video. My sister only had a couple seeds for her favorite tomato (they were sold out when she tried to buy them) and I told her to watch your video so she can propagate more tomatoes.
My other half and I watch your videos all the time. I was hoping I could share with you a surefire way that I found. Using a base of some loamy soil, wet peat moss or wet coco coir, in your 4 inch pot (to prevent leaking of the vermiculite), you add fine Vermiculite to the pot up to the top(or crush the coarse Vermiculite in your hands a little bit beforehand) and then you just stick them as deep as you can, trimmed to three main leaves, and then add water. They will have root balls the size of the pot in 1-2 weeks and they dont have to be watered as much, maybe 4 times for 2 weeks if they are in partial shade, also when planted if you break the soil up and pull them out wet, you dont really have to water them in much.(The roots cling to the Vermiculite). Vermiculite is actually sterile naturally For those "touchy tomatoes", because its heated biotite or phlogopite and becomes the fluffy light material it is. If you don't use vermiculite in your garden it very much has a place especially for tomatoes since its clean and they tend to be sensitive to bacteria. Sorry for the long post, i really hope you see this comment and try it out. You wont be disappointed :)
P.s. in order not to top it on accident always look further up on what you think is the lead and if it has flowers on that main stem its your lead. 100% of the time.Thanks for the videos and tips :D
Great tip thank you! I watch so many TH-cam’s in gardening and no one has done one on this concept.
I did this it worked..Thanks..I have a beautiful terrace garden
I planted my sad little tomato sprouts last week... hoping they rebound...if they do make I will def be doing this to make up for the ones that wont. Always wonderful content to watch thank you =]
Excellent video. Excellent! Very informative and accurate. Thank you and keep up the great work.
i have never had a problem rooting clones from determinate plants, or from plants that had started flowering, however, i don't cut the stems that have flowers on them. I do take small suckers from large suckers and root them without problems. I have found that rainwater or well water works better than using tap water (at least for me).
Where did you get that fabulous pink tray and pot holders? Pink is my color.... Your channel is so beneficial to us, I have learned so much in the few videos that I've watched so far, just found you. I enjoy seeing your garden and I sure do enjoy hearing you speak. Great job. Keep up the awesome work you are doing.
Thank you Jess 🍅
Patrick Battle on Resilience Daily (He's from Living Web Farms) mentioned that if you place suckers into soil to cut back some of the foliage so that the need for water is reduced until the plant can grow some roots. Very clever, I thought!
I just had a long day after graduating and this is exactly the video that I needed to watch to relax. Thank you Jess! This will also help me with my garden.
Congratulations grad!!!
@@RootsandRefugeFarm thank you so much!
This is a great tip I have done this twice and it has worked
towards the end of the season I actually try and grab some and put them in water and the best ones that route I plant them in a pot and grow them all winter long in my window.I don't get as many or as big but it's a nice plant and I love the smell of tomatoes.
I never actually thought about the indeterminate and determinate when it came to Winter. I will definitely be looking into indeterminate plants for this winter. I have cut just about any part of a tomato plant with flowers or fruit it doesn't matter. I put it in water and it gets route and it grows. And then I just replanted or give it to somebody else to replant. Although when it does have fruit on it, I will grab a tiny handful of the dirt from the plant that it's growing in and drop it in the bottom of the water. It seems to help do the trick of fertilizing with natural nutrients that the plant was already growing off of. But literally a tiny little handful.
❤ watching from Nigeria
Thank you for sharing this! We are brand new to gardening and your videos are our favorite ❤
Just in case anyone was curious, I just tried it myself and you can grow suckers that have pretty much just sprouted! I'm talking like the length of half a thumb. I was pruning my tomato plants after transferring deep into the soil to get the stem rooting and decided to see if I could save all the suckers I removed.
They started out very slow. Probably about 3 weeks before I could see them visibly increasing in size, but sure enough, they are now growing :) Now I've turned my 3 gifted tomato plants into 10! Of course, there's still a chance they could die for whatever reason but they are growing and have doubled in original size. I didn't even root them either, just stuck em straight in the potting soil and trimmed back the foliage to only a couple of leaves.
The thing is, you MUST keep the soil visibly moist for the first two weeks pretty much. If you're going to leave them outside, make sure they only get about 1-2 hours direct sun at the most. I live in a climate zone 10 and I forgot to water one of them for 1 day while out in the sun, and the top layer of soiled dried up, taking my sucker with it. thankfully it's the only one lost so far and the rest and doing great.
Thanks so much, I wouldn't have even tried this if not for this video! :)
Thanks I'm going to do this. I already spent my budget for my garden. But I was wanting more tomato plants. My goal for the year is make most of my own tomato products to can up. Have a blessed day.
Thanks, girl! I just pinched and potted 7 suckers!
I accidentally topped a very weak Cherokee purple tomato plant and I’m just gonna try to grow it as a mini plant cause it’s been a week and it’s growin flowers but no new suckers 🤷🏻♀️ garden experiments are my fav!
Tomatoes always have flowers directly on the main lead, and not on the sucker. Just look up the "lead" or sucker. Just a future tip to prevent another accidental beheading :)
I did the same thing on one of mine. We'll see how it goes this season. Garden experiments indeed!
My tomatoes were demolished by evil squirrels, but I was able to propagate a few suckers that were left behind thanks to the video I watched the other day. Thank you, I had no idea! There are long beautiful roots sprouting and they are almost ready to go back outside... in the double reinforced raised beds lol
I ❤️ your channel. thank you for all the great info 🙏
I have accidentally broken a tomato plant. I pulled the base and roots up, then replanted the part that was broken off, kept it watered well like twice a day, and it grew.
Break off the lower leaves and remove existing fruit.
Great video Jess!
Very, VERY good video! I don't think I've seen anyone else do this! It IS a great way to get more tomatoes! GOD bless
I loved our Sun Sugar from last year!
The tomatoes do root quite easily. With anything you want to root, add a piece of ivy, philodendron, or some other plant. There's something about the hormones that helps it root easier and faster. My sucker rooted in 4 days! Take some leaves off like Jess did, if you think the plant can't support that much. Certainly don't leave on any blossoms.
The problem with rooting suckers in Louisiana in May is that by the time those little plant have flowers, it will be too hot for those flowers to pollinate. I have one sucker that I pulled off in April and stuck in the raised bed. I will let you know if it ever makes a tomato.
In our Master Gardener class, we were told that rooting anything in water develops roots that are too fine to make a strong plant. It's better to propagate in soil. With more difficult plants, trim leaves from four nodes and bury two nodes in the soil. Mist twice a day.
Before I cut a sucker off my cherry tomatoes, I had to come get a refresher on what to do. Thanks. Here I go.....
I love planting more tomatoes from my suckers, it's like free food. Save those seeds too everyone.
Awesome info! I had no idea I could do that! Thank you!
Thank you. I always was wondering how to do this. Also, thanks for mentioning the dates. That's so very helpful.
Yes! I’ve always put them in a jar in the window, never had to harden off though. 👍🏼
Sooooo cool. I had no idea! Gonna try it.
Hi Jess
You can use ground cinnamon powder to root plants it works like a bomb and keeps pest at bay.
I'm so thankful for you! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with all of us!💜❤💚💙🙏💜💛💙💚
Totally off topic but, I love your shirt!
I am watching this because I paid $7.00 for one tomato plant that gives black cherry tomatoes. I bought it last year and it is still alive and I want to make more plants of it because I probably won't find this plant again in the nursery. Sometimes you see as particular plant and then don't see it again for 10 years.
I grow mostly indeterminate type tomatoes, and try to keep them single stem. Sometimes some suckers get away on me and I may end up letting them grow. It's VERY hard to cut off suckers that have flowers ~8^) The idea is to get them early, so you don't have to make that decision, plus your plant would not have had to expend energy to grow some thing you are going to remove anyway. One thing that I do with indeterminate suckers is leave the one at the top until the plant produces the next sucker. If something happens to the main stem, you will have that sucker to keep the plant growing upward. Just a little insurance policy that I practice after having some main stems quit growing for some reason .....like a tomato hornworm munches it off! Take care.
You should do a side by side trial using a sucker that's about 1.5-2 inches tall & then a sucker that is about 3-4 inches tall. I was told in a video (dont remember which gardening channel it was) its actually easier to clone a tomato plant when its smaller. Also, it'd be nice for you to show us the soil befor and after watering the ones you clonebecause i have cloned quite a few successfully, but I'm always afriad im over watering & going to cause them to rotm
*just heard you say you do them in water. Lol
I am praying and hoping for some good tomatoes. Thanks for sharing.
Loved this information 🥰👌🙏
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Such invaluable information! Thank you so much for spreading your knowledge ❤❤❤
Awesome video!! Thank you so much, will definitely try it with my determinate tomatoes 😊 thanks again 🍅
Excellent information and just in time! Thank you sweetie!
I forgot to ask if you ever make fried green tomatoes. I love them, but tomato sandwiches are delicious as well.
So helpful! Thank you
When is the mulching video coming??
Tks for sharing this information
I love your top.
I have never pruned my tomatoes. I have never hardened any plants. Does this work with tomato cages?
So, by taking the suckers off and planting them you can save lots of money and even give to someone.
You are amazing. Is it better to just get poles and tie my tomatoes to them. Or use cages ?
Thank you for being a part of my life
So I tried cutting the bigger suckers to grow. One of them left an open wound. I was worried about disease or whatever, so I put Neosporin on it. Lol I hope it helps.
Wow I'm definitely going to try doing this for my fall season
Hi Jess. So when would you plant these in your zone? I am close to you so I'm wondering if I do this right now, when would I put them into the ground. ?????
Best idea ❤
This question is a bit of a tangent, but my husband and I are attempting a trellis arch with 16ft cattle panel and t-posts after watching one of your videos. We were curious of the length of panel you used for your arches and more importantly, what height t-posts did you use (e.g. 5', 6', etc) or does it not matter? Thank you for your informative videos which are really helpful while we try out hand at gardening for the first time.
Hey JESS! I would LOVE to get a few ATOMIC GRAPE sucker starts from you!!! 😁 If only I were closer, I'd be at your GORGEOUS ROSE COVERED GARDEN GATE with a🤩❤️😊🙋♀️!
Awesome info as always! Thanks
Good morning from Fort Gordon🍅🍅
I am doing this today!!! Thanks!!!
I actually decapitate my tomatoes pretty ruthlessly early in the season. If I only need one new plant I in stead of taking the sucker just chop a good amount (10 inches maybe?) of the top of the plant off just above a sucker. That sucker will grow like crazy (because it already has the root system of the entire plant) and the plant will be big again in a few days. Additionally I have a big "cutting" and get a big extra tomato plant instantly. I've never noticed that it would make the original plant shorter either. Maybe I've been lucky. 😛
Haha is that Ben back in the hammock?
Jess How do you know what plants are where? Do you have them labeled or just remember? Thanks!
I appreciate this video. Thank you so much for sharing
Thank you for your practical ideas and great explanations.
Is that potting soil already wet before placing the sucker in for rooting?
I'd love to know where your pruners/scissors came from. Are they bonsai snips?
Do you use Roma tomatoes? If not, what kind do you like for salsa's, sauces, etc?
Love your vids