It isn't necessarily the hairs that become roots on tomato plants, but the stem does produce roots all the way up if planted deep. It comes from the natural behavior of the plant. In the wild, they aren't staked or trained up anything. They grow along the ground like vines and put down roots where they make contact with the ground to get more water and nutrition from a larger area. It is definitely best to plant them deep. But hey, they'll still grow and expand their roots from the root ball and you'll get cracking tomatoes if they get enough water and nutrition.
yep it's not the hairs it's the little nodule bumps that form on the lower part of the stem given moisture, that's what sprout out as roots given the chance, even if they're not yet present new roots will grow on the stem if it's covered or touches the ground
Sowed 2 of every variety of tomatoes and had 100% germination, so have spares, decided to put these out in my greenhouse as a trial one week ago. They are all fine, so I think next week the rest will go out and keep an eye on the temperature, I'm in Devon which helps. Jo 🙂
I was checking my phone calendar and I put out my tomatoes last year May 8, today May 2 night temps are 1c 🥶. But they are screaming for more space and I am not keen to pot on 27 tomatoes 🍅. Hopefully they will be ok for a few more days 🤞🤞. Have a great week Mark, Ali 🌤️🥶🇨🇦
Ooo good shout Ali! I just went back and checked my dates from last year and it was the 24th May for me. Temps aren't too bad here at the moment and with greenhouse just being at the bottom of the garden think I might move some of the bigger tender ones in there. If it does look dodgy I can pop some fleece over them easy enough. Always seem to run out of space at this time of year 👍🌱👍
There's a fight between them and the Brad's as to which is going to be the smallest 😀 Hoping now I've given them a little more breathing space they might pick up a little 👍🌱👍
The TToP are real DIva's. Slower than other toms....but well worth the extra effort. Mine are still not ready to pot up and the others are potted up for 2 weeks.
I'm not sure which one is worse the Brads or TToP. If they weren't so delicious I wouldn't bother growing them 😂😂😂 I'm hoping another couple of weeks and they'll be ready to go out 👍🌱👍
@@marksallotmentplot Yes Brad's often look pathetic and then they get some roots down and shine. FYI- I made a delicious tomato soup using the TToP and BAG toms last year...so delicious and a golden color.
I’ve found Brads to be really weak and spindly, miles behind others. And I’m gutted to report that Rebel Starfighter Prime is even worse. I’m growing 18 varieties and everything else is doing grand. I so want to taste a Brads! Fingers crossed they put on some timber soon 🙂
Great video Mark and was it an unintentional experiment? Either way, it is really important to document and show these differences. I agree with @neeway1620 and @NickSBailey re advantageous roots and how its the stem and not the hairs that produce the extra roots. It is how you can take suckers or incidentally broken tomatoes and propagate them. I usually do this to over winter a few favourites and it's what you can also do to hybrids/ F1's. I am growing some new F1'a this year and definitely will be doing this if they are nice. I have also seen people have one tomato plant for one row but they grow it along the ground, covering the stem and have let the suckers take root and grow several plants as they each have their own anchor points. What i really wouldn't mind doing is trying to graft some of my favourite varieties to see what they produce. My late step FIL did that and it's the ones that always survive over winter and are a bit more blight resistant. (I thought i might add that the seeds are true to standard now but i like to see "if i can" over winter them and not that they need to.) All that being said, i have noticed some issues with germination this year of both saved seeds (beefsteak marmande) and a F1 (mountain magic). Not sure if the MM ones are legit as i spent a lot for just 6 seeds and it also turned out to be another small business with a slightly different name and not to the legit one i thought it was. We shall see. Not just tomatoes i have had issues germinating other things that are normally no problem. We have grow lights and have heat in our concrete ex council London house but we have had a lack of sun light and have noticed more fungus gnats in the compost from the lack of proper cold freezing temps. Our humidity was so high in autumn last year, it was setting off the smoke alarms! We have had to use our dehumidifier a lot this autumn/winter upstairs. We bake our soil in the oven for the seed trays but the buggers still keep coming in! Usually my homemade apple vinegar traps will do but now we have sticky traps and am also thinking of nematodes for the indoor plants, once the main crops go out. One thing i will say, going back to your tomato experiment is that i don't have heat mats, but with tomatoes i do drop the temps after germination. Tomatoes like air flow and don't like being crowded. They also don't like humidity and a lack of real sun light. Some varieties are also slower than others like the big bois and the F1's. I usually would have up potted them again by now but everything has been so slow until this last week or so. Plus our bigger pots seem to have disappeared. We are on a tight budget so ask for pots and canned jars to be returned so we have enough for next year. Yes so no pots to up pot to and late putting them out. I am putting the spares in milk and fizzy bottles this year again. Was mortified when i heard that one of the people threw the pots in the bin (not even in the recycle bin!). Last year, B&Q tomato plants were £3.50 for starts and £6.50 for my sized organic plants. All i asked for was the pots back after planting out... They live across the road and our kids go to the same school.... Anyway, at the end of day, things will catch up when the weather picks up and the skies clear. Another late cloudy spring but hey ho. Give it a month or so and i will be complaining about it being too hot to garden, more hayfever, swimming in factor 50 still looking like a lobster Casper and being eaten alive by the mozzies! lol Sorry for the essay Mark! Take care!
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It isn't necessarily the hairs that become roots on tomato plants, but the stem does produce roots all the way up if planted deep. It comes from the natural behavior of the plant. In the wild, they aren't staked or trained up anything. They grow along the ground like vines and put down roots where they make contact with the ground to get more water and nutrition from a larger area. It is definitely best to plant them deep. But hey, they'll still grow and expand their roots from the root ball and you'll get cracking tomatoes if they get enough water and nutrition.
yep it's not the hairs it's the little nodule bumps that form on the lower part of the stem given moisture, that's what sprout out as roots given the chance, even if they're not yet present new roots will grow on the stem if it's covered or touches the ground
Hi Mark, very interesting results on the tomato plants growth in certain conditions. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
Thanks Christine.
Always learning and something else for me to remember next year 👍🌱👍
Sowed 2 of every variety of tomatoes and had 100% germination, so have spares, decided to put these out in my greenhouse as a trial one week ago. They are all fine, so I think next week the rest will go out and keep an eye on the temperature, I'm in Devon which helps. Jo 🙂
I was checking my phone calendar and I put out my tomatoes last year May 8, today May 2 night temps are 1c 🥶. But they are screaming for more space and I am not keen to pot on 27 tomatoes 🍅. Hopefully they will be ok for a few more days 🤞🤞. Have a great week Mark, Ali 🌤️🥶🇨🇦
Ooo good shout Ali! I just went back and checked my dates from last year and it was the 24th May for me.
Temps aren't too bad here at the moment and with greenhouse just being at the bottom of the garden think I might move some of the bigger tender ones in there. If it does look dodgy I can pop some fleece over them easy enough.
Always seem to run out of space at this time of year 👍🌱👍
Useful video, i am enjoying your greenhouse videos as I'm just starting out with a rehomed greenhouse of my own.
My tims are also pretty spindly little plants but hopefully will pick up at some point 🌱🌱
There's a fight between them and the Brad's as to which is going to be the smallest 😀
Hoping now I've given them a little more breathing space they might pick up a little 👍🌱👍
Superbe vidéo
A bientôt
Merci
J'espère que tu passes une bonne semaine
@@marksallotmentplot de rien c'est avec plaisir
The TToP are real DIva's. Slower than other toms....but well worth the extra effort. Mine are still not ready to pot up and the others are potted up for 2 weeks.
I'm not sure which one is worse the Brads or TToP. If they weren't so delicious I wouldn't bother growing them 😂😂😂
I'm hoping another couple of weeks and they'll be ready to go out 👍🌱👍
@@marksallotmentplot Yes Brad's often look pathetic and then they get some roots down and shine. FYI- I made a delicious tomato soup using the TToP and BAG toms last year...so delicious and a golden color.
It just shows one thing not working and big difference, if something stalls make a change.
Quality content as always 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Cheers John 👍🌱👍
Fantastisch Good work mark verspenen te potjes thans the video fried 👍🌱🍅
Cheers Luc 👍🌱👍
Fantastisch Good work Mark you the best te moostiun Tomatoes verspenen te pottens thans te video Top friend ✌️✔️⛅🍅🌱
Thanks Luc 👍🌱👍
I’ve found Brads to be really weak and spindly, miles behind others. And I’m gutted to report that Rebel Starfighter Prime is even worse. I’m growing 18 varieties and everything else is doing grand. I so want to taste a Brads! Fingers crossed they put on some timber soon 🙂
Brads are a funny little plant 😊
Pain to grow and like you say really spindly. Shame the taste so good or I probably wouldn't bother with them 👍🌱👍
🍅💚❤😊👍
Great video Mark and was it an unintentional experiment? Either way, it is really important to document and show these differences.
I agree with @neeway1620 and @NickSBailey re advantageous roots and how its the stem and not the hairs that produce the extra roots.
It is how you can take suckers or incidentally broken tomatoes and propagate them. I usually do this to over winter a few favourites and it's what you can also do to hybrids/ F1's. I am growing some new F1'a this year and definitely will be doing this if they are nice.
I have also seen people have one tomato plant for one row but they grow it along the ground, covering the stem and have let the suckers take root and grow several plants as they each have their own anchor points.
What i really wouldn't mind doing is trying to graft some of my favourite varieties to see what they produce. My late step FIL did that and it's the ones that always survive over winter and are a bit more blight resistant. (I thought i might add that the seeds are true to standard now but i like to see "if i can" over winter them and not that they need to.)
All that being said, i have noticed some issues with germination this year of both saved seeds (beefsteak marmande) and a F1 (mountain magic). Not sure if the MM ones are legit as i spent a lot for just 6 seeds and it also turned out to be another small business with a slightly different name and not to the legit one i thought it was. We shall see.
Not just tomatoes i have had issues germinating other things that are normally no problem. We have grow lights and have heat in our concrete ex council London house but we have had a lack of sun light and have noticed more fungus gnats in the compost from the lack of proper cold freezing temps. Our humidity was so high in autumn last year, it was setting off the smoke alarms! We have had to use our dehumidifier a lot this autumn/winter upstairs.
We bake our soil in the oven for the seed trays but the buggers still keep coming in! Usually my homemade apple vinegar traps will do but now we have sticky traps and am also thinking of nematodes for the indoor plants, once the main crops go out.
One thing i will say, going back to your tomato experiment is that i don't have heat mats, but with tomatoes i do drop the temps after germination. Tomatoes like air flow and don't like being crowded. They also don't like humidity and a lack of real sun light. Some varieties are also slower than others like the big bois and the F1's.
I usually would have up potted them again by now but everything has been so slow until this last week or so. Plus our bigger pots seem to have disappeared. We are on a tight budget so ask for pots and canned jars to be returned so we have enough for next year. Yes so no pots to up pot to and late putting them out. I am putting the spares in milk and fizzy bottles this year again. Was mortified when i heard that one of the people threw the pots in the bin (not even in the recycle bin!). Last year, B&Q tomato plants were £3.50 for starts and £6.50 for my sized organic plants. All i asked for was the pots back after planting out... They live across the road and our kids go to the same school....
Anyway, at the end of day, things will catch up when the weather picks up and the skies clear. Another late cloudy spring but hey ho. Give it a month or so and i will be complaining about it being too hot to garden, more hayfever, swimming in factor 50 still looking like a lobster Casper and being eaten alive by the mozzies! lol
Sorry for the essay Mark! Take care!