I returned from a trip and found tons of suckers from one plant. I knew I could propagate them, but this video gave me excellent information on how to do this successfully. Now I've got 8 new tomato plants😃.
Cordelia0704 Hi. I’ve been gardening for 40+ years and I never thought to do this. I see spent tomato vines start rooting in the compost pile all the time but it never dawned on me to propagate a second harvest this way but I’m on it now!
Yep the ones I stuck in water didnt develop many roots, if at all, after over 1 week. The ones I stuck in soil and kept watered are now flowering after 3 weeks. Amazing how the ones we dont fret and worry about surprise us, yet those we stare down and stress over seem to take forever to develop!
I have 3 huge cherry tomato plants growing indoors under my grow lights. I propagated 2 of them from the first plant. 😊 Easiest things I've ever grown. No bugs, no fighting with neighborhood rodents over the fruit, can let them ripen fully on the vine. It's been great!
My first time growing Armenian cucumbers has been wonderful! They have no tough skin; have a cute daisy edge when sliced for dipping; stay crispier than cucumbers when pickled; grow like kudzu; and reproduce like bunnies!!! I have had no pest problems here in northwest Ohio, my only problem has been building the trellis bigger, bigger, and bigger as they explode. What fun!!!
Ack, I pulled all the suckers off this morning. I know I'll get more so I will be a few weeks behind you. This is so much easier than trying to grow from seed for my late season harvest.
I cloned a sucker from my Burpee Big Boy tomatoes. It was so simple and it's now growing beautifully in my raised bed garden. I plan on doing more, especially since watching this video.
Gardening Simplified I cut off a sucker from my purple Cherokee, dipped it in rooting powder, watered it, and it wilted all the way to the ground. It broke my heart! I took another cutting and stuck it in water and it looks fine.
Over here in the UK, I have done this before. As our season is not that long, I've planted some cuttings at the end of the season (No later than Sept) and managed to keep the strongest ones going on a window sill over the winter. I've had to watch out for damping off and fungus and have lost some to this problem. When they got leggy, I kept trimming them back. Come late Feb or March, I re-potted and found they had a great head start on the seed sown plants. They also started to fruit especially early ! A great bonus.
What a great episode! From now on, I'm never gonna look at suckers in a bad way. Of course, I'll still prune the ones I don't need. But free tomato seedlings from them? Who would have thought? Thanks so much for sharing!
There is one *huge* advantage of starting cuttings in soil as opposed to water - the water can go "bad" due to exposure to light. That won't happen with soil.
As you said, Brian, the heat stopped the tomato blooms, but the plants grew too large in my tiny greenhouse. So I'm trying cutting back the indeterminate ones to the lowest branch where there is a shoot started. Seeing if I can get them to finish the season still fruiting with such a good root in place. I may do the same with the determinate ones in time, but for now, they are still fruiting. At 87 yrs old, I see no need to preserve the lineage of the old days 'mators. I never found any to compare taste-wise with Better Boy and Celebrity hybrids, anyway. I cook a 20+ lb turkey every year and cut it all up into sandwich size for the freezer. Nothing better or easier to fix for months of lunches. Turkey, 'mator, mayo, on sourdough toast with black coffee. Who could ask for more?
You can directly stick them into the soil in a pot or raised bed where you plan to plant at the end. As long as keep the soil moist and take care of it, it will do absolutely great 👍🏻
Thank you for this! After learning (from you!) that I shouldn’t be pruning my Sweet 100, I went to the store to get some new plants. Guess what, there aren’t any left. Thank goodness, I still have a plant to clone from! 😊🍅💛
I do this all the time and I have a tomato garden!! I learned it when I was getting my transplants and the biggest one broke on its way home. I was devastated but I planted it. I was surprised to get an extra plant! I now do this and most of my friends do this now once I told them. Funny thing is even the leaves root!!
I did the sucker method and the roots took fast in the glass of water I used. I didn’t have the glass outside but I recut the ends before parking them in the glass which sat in my kitchen (south facing); they were then planted in fabric planters that had lettuce. They seem super happy. Oh, and pruning it soooooo helpful!! My goodness, I have some tomatoes that are 9’ tall; I needed my step ladder to be able to tie them to extra-extended stakes. Holy moly!! 🤣
The trick to tomato plants is to plant them DEEP in the ground - at least a foot or more. Grow the seeds or cuttings in pots or 2 litre soft drink bottles until the plant is over 1 foot tall. Then trim off all the leaves, dig a deep hole and put the plant deep into the ground.
I very much appreciate a gardening video that depicts growing, soil amending, harvesting, pruning, and especially cutting propagation! I've been in EMS since high school earning my paramedic cert and working night through my Bachelor's in bio before medical school. My family dairy farm sells fresh milk and cheese on-site and I donate to my local food bank. The typical contemptuous internet gardening advice is "NEVER EVER........: or "Always no-matter-what,,,,," and watching your channel this year has helped me fill my yearly notebook already! Than0k Y ou ! ]98
I wait for a day that will be cloudy before a rainy day. I snip my sucker just as you do. I leave half as many leaves and immediately dig a deep hole, water, and place the sucker. The next day it rains. Within a week it is now a plant and it starts growing. Sometimes I may lose one but usually not. If I do I just repeat. I never transplant on sunny days. I suppose I could use shade cloth. I try not to let them go limp in the sun at any time.
I took four 6-8 inch suckers off my plants yesterday- they somehow escaped my usual sucker pinching (I have 40+ plants) I planted them deeply in pots and hoped for the best! They were drooping and wilting. My dog Jackson wanted to go out 5 minutes ago (6am) and all four cuttings are upright and look like plants already! 😊
I just started cloning my tomatoes this year. So far I have planted 3 and given away 6, several in pots as gifts, several as bare roots in water for my parents' garden and 2 that were in dixie cups for neighbors that wanted a tomato plant. I can't believe I waited this long to try it! Total game changer! Except now I feel guilty when I compost the suckers! :) Take care and all the best from the San Francisco Bay area 💛
My season is later than yours so I'm getting my first ripe beefsteak tomato tomorrow. I just strung up all my plants in preparation for a storm with high wids, rain, and hail. Several suckers got big, had blossoms or fruit just starting, and were low hanging. For air and to prevent disease, I cut those suckers off. They were too hardy to toss, so I'm rooting them. This is perfect timing. I have been begging people to take my spare plants and now I'm rooting more. 😂😂😂 I do have a sunroom I can put my self wicking plants in if it freezes sooner than expected.
Just pulled up a beef steak that did produce over 6 tomatoes before getting yellow, so I planted a sucker that I did had it a dish size water feature outside for two weeks and Sunday planted it in the ground! It’s doing great. Red solo cup watch out because I’m doing what you did next weekend!!! Great video like always!! 🍅🌶
I just watched your video, I'm a first time vegetable gardener. I have 23 tomato plants, and I just went out to prune a sucker and planted right into my raised garden bed. All the other suckers just flowered and didn't want to take them off. We will see in a week or week and a half how it is going to do
I just pruned my tomato leaves plant today and get rid the suckers from the plant. I get a good amount of nice suckers and I plant those into a good potting mix. I've done this previously and it does work!
I have 3 cloned plants growing now. They are at various stages and all doing well. The oldest of the three is flowering. The process is easy and seems to work well.
Last fall I picked a few suckers and grew them in my basement under lights. It's too cool to grow to get a good harvest so I just continued to harvest the suckers and threw away the first plant. Then I did that 2 more times and come May I had 8 plants . I gave 6 away, kept 2 and every one of them did great in the garden. Purple Cherokee. The best! I am presently doing it now for next season.
You are looking happy and healthy! I took 10 clones from my Sweeties, 100% success rate. Going to be a long season. Started peas and beans for a fall garden today as well. Fingers crossed.
I am another person here who has been gardening my whole life and did not think to do this. You posted this video at a very good time! We had a volunteer tomato plant come up in the garden and I just let it grow. The plant was most likely a cross between a chocolate cherry and an heirloom beefsteak that I received last year from a gentleman whose family had been passing down the seeds for three generations. It produces fruit about double the size of a cherry tomato, dark burgundy brown in color and we were amazed to find that they taste like a rich wine. Since it is a hybrid, it is not likely to come true to seed, but with your instructions, I now have four clones started that I will grow over the winter in a grow tent... able to enjoy them all winter and set out new clones in the spring. Not as easy as saving seed, but the glorious taste of this tomato is worth the extra effort! Thank you!
I always do this with indeterminate ones but this year I tried with a more determinate "patio" type. I wasn't even sure if it would work but I'm having some success, so far.
I did it with a determinate patio tomato. Plant had been potted deeply and rooted from both sides, so I cut off one side when I repotted. Gave one to my mom, kept the other. Both are producing tomatoes galore
I rooted a bunch of my San Marzano suckers this year actually. I found the whole process was expedited if I put the sucker directly in the ground and provided it shade until it rooted. The plants seem to endure less shock and produce faster when I do it that way. I actually just bought some Armenian cucumber seeds from Baker Creek. I’ll be planting those in a few days!
Great advice. I stuck a sucker directly into the soil near the original tomato plant.....and the sucker is growing well with tiny flowers. I’m so excited. Going to do more of this! Thks for the info! Ahna
I watched you video about two weeks ago and I went out and found suckers from two different varieties and planted them in soil with solo cups. They are now perky and growing and will soon be flowering. As you stated this method saves time and money. Can’t wait to see them grow out and produce. Thanks for sharing this valuable information on sucker preservation.
Hi guys... the garden is growing like crazy! The boys n I are having a Blast!!! We've got corn, cucumbers, beans squash, herbs... everything is so full and taste deeee-licious!! We've got tomatoes and currants out the wazoo so come on over Brian and take some pleeeeez 😁 Happy gardening 🧡
Going to use your tips to bring my best tomato varieties into my basement greenhouse for fall/winter. First time experiment and I feel ready to go! Thankyou!
Wow, talk about "you've been doing it wrong"!! I learned so much from this video.. I found you by searching TH-cam for rooting tomato suckers (I didn't even know what a "sucker" was!!) and now I need to do a deep-dive on your channel. Your garden looks really awesome, those plants are growing so tall! Your trellises (trelli?) look so cool, I hope you have a video about your set-up. So glad I found you, you've given me a boost of confidence that I desperately need! Maybe my tomatoes will actually bear fruit this year.. fingers crossed. Thanks!!
I broke a stem earlier in the season. Stuck it in water then placed in my container and it's fruiting now! I'm going out to look for some suckers right now! Thank you!
Hi, thank you for the information. You make it so easy and I was surprised that you don't even need rooting compound. Great video as always, keep up the good work.
I have grown the Armenian variety cucumber and I prefer them to the conventional ones as well. Less bitter and better crunch factor. We like them thinly sliced and marinated with red onion and habanero in a white sugar and rice wine vinegar dressing. We like the thin-skinned Asian ones also. “Tasty Jade”, “Katrina” and “Diva” (Johnny’s Selected Seeds) are all excellent and can be field-grown. Trellising helps to keep them straight and improves yields. I never considered propagating tomatoes this way but I’m for sure going to try it. Thanks for the tips and techniques on this one. I seriously get way more good gardening ideas from this channel than the other 100 or so gardening channels I subscribe to!
Thanks again for your straight forward, information-packed session. Your comments about extending the season with new plants from suckers since it is so hot made me feel more confident. I had tried the water method a little earlier and got soggy bottoms (no leaves in the water) so I gently scrubbed them and transferred to soil. They are doing ok now! Whew. 🍅
Thank you for this video! I have some Juliet Tomatoes( Hybrid) that I just took cuttings from. I'm in TX and my tomatoes have all given up. So I figure I can grow these better in the Fall. Also, Armenian cukes are AMAZING! I grew them 2 years ago, and when all my regular cukes bit the dust, these just kept going. The hotter it was, the more they produced. Love your videos!
I learned this in my first year of gardening last year. This year I have 5 extra plants because of cloning. Good thing I did as the first plants are petering out. Next year I am going to produce half of my tomato plants from cloning instead of 1/3rd.That will space out my plants to produce all season long.
This is my favorite way to propagate tomatoes. I am part of a community garden and we need a lot of seedlings for our growing project for local food pantry.
What an extraordinary guy!! wow. wish I had known this weeks ago, but hopefully I have enough time to squeeze this in. Good luck to me. TYVM once again
I have done this before in a cup with potting mix. First day or so I’ll leave them in a dark place to recuperate. Then I put them in a sunny area. It’s very simple to do. I live in South Texas where is very hot and humid most of the time.
Kegger cups are great for seedlings and cuttings because they take a long time to dry out. Early in a plant's like I will often take a smaller clear plastic cup and put it upside down on top to make a tiny terrarium. But I like to keep them in trays that stop them from falling over, which they are prone to do.
I took some suckers off three of my plants...none were doing very well, no tomatoes. Been so hot here. But put them in a big cup with water and left them outside where they got sun, but not all day, they were under a tree for shade, and just put them in the ground because they had tons of roots. All three are doing fantastic in my raised bed. Magically now I have three tomatoes on my older plants!
Love the shirt . . . my husband has the same one! I have already been taking out the suckers and doing the same method. I have my plants growing as fast as my other plants that started out from seed. As always, love your videos!!!!!
Hmm, I’ve composted so many suckers I hope I can still find some. Definitely want to try this since the squirrels have carried off all my big tomatoes. I’d really like a tomato crop in the fall. (Yes, crazy hot and humid weather in NC. 90’s-100’s).
Ah! I wish I've known it in the beginning of the season to multiply some of the interesting varieties I got at the garden center. Too late now for our climate, since I've been diligently pruning all the suckers immediately😅. But will definitely try next year
Awesome! Thank you! This was very well done, and very well explained and demonstrated! I overwintered 2 tomatoes, so I am going to try cuttings while waiting for my seedlings to grow!
As always. Learned something new. Great timing as I was just heading outside to check everything. Looking for those suckers. Also need to find those cucumbers!
Thanks for the propagation tip. I never knew this. And I have been growing armenian cucumbers for a while and they are so delicious and no need to peel them!
My husband first learned about Armenian cucumbers from some elderly Armenian ladies, family friends. We have grown them ever since. They are more of a desert kind of plant as the climate in Armenia is quite dry. So they don’t need as much water and babying that our regular cucumbers need. The bugs don’t seem to mess with them as much. The fruit is burp less and has very little seed. As you know, the taste is Devine and almost never bitter. And they’re HUGE, and that doesn’t matter either as far as the taste goes. I grow it in a 5 gallon pail on my south western Kentucky deck ( it faces the north) . You will not regret growing Armenian cucumbers!
Great video! You’re so right. Super simple to do. I have 7 plants growing from what were suckers. The plants I planted early this year were victims of some late cold weather. They’re still growing but nor producing as much as I’d hoped. The sucker plants are doing great. Looking forward to a good Fall harvest of tomatoes this year.
I took suckers from both my Ananas Noire and Purple Russian tomatoes in mid May. I put them in 4 inch pots in the house about 2 weeks and then hardened them off. The first one has been planted outside about 5-6 weeks now, and it is already over 3 feet tall with 10 tomatoes on it. The other one got planted 3-4 weeks ago, and even it has at least 8 blossoms on it and is almost 2 feet tall. At the same time the plants that were planted in late March are having less than half the blossoms form fruit, even with hand-pollination.
I definitely will try this. I threw out some bigger suckers today. Ran out to find them but couldn’t locate. Thanks for this video. I learned something today.
Fantastic. I've already been doing this, but it's nice to see the word getting out there. I've currently got 15 suckers planted, and I'll probably add a few more. Even if the fruit doesn't fully ripen by Fall in my zone 6A garden, green tomatoes can be tasty as well.
Man, great timing. I needed this. My San Marzanos aren't doing great. I've been getting blossom end rot, watering problems (I've been growing them in containers, they drain WAY too fast and don't hold onto water). And I think I've got curly top virus on top of it all. Good to know I can start again. Got a project for the weekend now. Thanks!!
Hi, I’ve several tomatoes in grow bags doing reasonably well but I set mine up with a plastic liner for the bottom 2-3 inches, some 4 inch diameter perforated pipe ( Home Depot) then a layer of weed block on top of it. The idea is to let only about 20% of the soil go down to the bottom of the bag to act as a wick. I used a piece of drinking water grade pipe to add water to the bottom of the bag (reservoir area). It wasn’t practical for me to set up piping for automated watering so I went this route. I still have to watch the soil daily when it’s over 90 but other than that, I usually only have to check it every 2 or 3 days, when it’s in the 60-70’s about once a week or so.
For containers try watering small amounts frequently (morning and afternoon) rather than deep watering. Watering large amounts in containers washes away all of the soluble nutrients and that leads to blossom end rot.
Good idea, I am about to top my indeterminates tomorrow because they are 7 feet tall. I am sure I have a few suckers though I have trimmed a lot this season. In Sacramento it is hot but not humid.
We only have one San Marzano this year so this video is great timing for me to try and clone a few more. We are in the SF Bay Area so we have warm weather through October-plenty of time for more tomato growing.
I returned from a trip and found tons of suckers from one plant. I knew I could propagate them, but this video gave me excellent information on how to do this successfully. Now I've got 8 new tomato plants😃.
I took a sucker off, that was about 3 inches high, stuck it right in the ground, and it took off and started growing! So far, so good.
I did too. I'm now harvesting from my original and my clone
I do this all the time. I think i have more clones than originals at this point
Cordelia0704 Hi. I’ve been gardening for 40+ years and I never thought to do this. I see spent tomato vines start rooting in the compost pile all the time but it never dawned on me to propagate a second harvest this way but I’m on it now!
@@farmerbob4554 awesome!
Yep the ones I stuck in water didnt develop many roots, if at all, after over 1 week. The ones I stuck in soil and kept watered are now flowering after 3 weeks. Amazing how the ones we dont fret and worry about surprise us, yet those we stare down and stress over seem to take forever to develop!
I have 3 huge cherry tomato plants growing indoors under my grow lights. I propagated 2 of them from the first plant. 😊 Easiest things I've ever grown. No bugs, no fighting with neighborhood rodents over the fruit, can let them ripen fully on the vine. It's been great!
@@liquidbeef762 they still usually need something like wind, if every flower is still the entire time theres a good chance it wont pollinate itself
My first time growing Armenian cucumbers has been wonderful! They have no tough skin; have a cute daisy edge when sliced for dipping; stay crispier than cucumbers when pickled; grow like kudzu; and reproduce like bunnies!!! I have had no pest problems here in northwest Ohio, my only problem has been building the trellis bigger, bigger, and bigger as they explode. What fun!!!
Ack, I pulled all the suckers off this morning. I know I'll get more so I will be a few weeks behind you. This is so much easier than trying to grow from seed for my late season harvest.
I cloned a sucker from my Burpee Big Boy tomatoes. It was so simple and it's now growing beautifully in my raised bed garden. I plan on doing more, especially since watching this video.
Awesome!
I also have big boy but not much fruit yet. The Early girl have fruit but blossom end root😟
Growing in 1 gallon plastic pots. And in USDA zone 7
I just potted up 40 suckers from my Cherokee Purple tomatoes for a second crop, three days ago.
Gardening Simplified I cut off a sucker from my purple Cherokee, dipped it in rooting powder, watered it, and it wilted all the way to the ground.
It broke my heart! I took another cutting and stuck it in water and it looks fine.
@@crwood439 I didn't use any root stimulator on mine. I just put them on the patio so they only get indirect light.
How's that going?
Over here in the UK, I have done this before. As our season is not that long, I've planted some cuttings at the end of the season (No later than Sept) and managed to keep the strongest ones going on a window sill over the winter. I've had to watch out for damping off and fungus and have lost some to this problem. When they got leggy, I kept trimming them back. Come late Feb or March, I re-potted and found they had a great head start on the seed sown plants. They also started to fruit especially early ! A great bonus.
What a great episode! From now on, I'm never gonna look at suckers in a bad way. Of course, I'll still prune the ones I don't need. But free tomato seedlings from them? Who would have thought? Thanks so much for sharing!
There is one *huge* advantage of starting cuttings in soil as opposed to water - the water can go "bad" due to exposure to light. That won't happen with soil.
I've planted suckers for years. Thanks for the video.
Its 6am here and I’m going out straight away to take some cuttings. Thanks for the tip Brian.
As you said, Brian, the heat stopped the tomato blooms, but the plants grew too large in my tiny greenhouse. So I'm trying cutting back the indeterminate ones to the lowest branch where there is a shoot started. Seeing if I can get them to finish the season still fruiting with such a good root in place. I may do the same with the determinate ones in time, but for now, they are still fruiting. At 87 yrs old, I see no need to preserve the lineage of the old days 'mators. I never found any to compare taste-wise with Better Boy and Celebrity hybrids, anyway. I cook a 20+ lb turkey every year and cut it all up into sandwich size for the freezer. Nothing better or easier to fix for months of lunches. Turkey, 'mator, mayo, on sourdough toast with black coffee. Who could ask for more?
You can directly stick them into the soil in a pot or raised bed where you plan to plant at the end. As long as keep the soil moist and take care of it, it will do absolutely great 👍🏻
Thank you for this! After learning (from you!) that I shouldn’t be pruning my Sweet 100, I went to the store to get some new plants. Guess what, there aren’t any left. Thank goodness, I still have a plant to clone from! 😊🍅💛
I do this all the time and I have a tomato garden!! I learned it when I was getting my transplants and the biggest one broke on its way home. I was devastated but I planted it. I was surprised to get an extra plant! I now do this and most of my friends do this now once I told them. Funny thing is even the leaves root!!
I did the sucker method and the roots took fast in the glass of water I used. I didn’t have the glass outside but I recut the ends before parking them in the glass which sat in my kitchen (south facing); they were then planted in fabric planters that had lettuce. They seem super happy. Oh, and pruning it soooooo helpful!! My goodness, I have some tomatoes that are 9’ tall; I needed my step ladder to be able to tie them to extra-extended stakes. Holy moly!! 🤣
My tomatoes are doing great this year thankfully! I'm about to take my peas out and I can plant tomatoes in that end of the raised bed.
The trick to tomato plants is to plant them DEEP in the ground - at least a foot or more.
Grow the seeds or cuttings in pots or 2 litre soft drink bottles until the plant is over 1 foot tall. Then trim off all the leaves, dig a deep hole and put the plant deep into the ground.
I very much appreciate a gardening video that depicts growing, soil amending, harvesting, pruning, and especially cutting propagation! I've been in EMS since high school earning my paramedic cert and working night through my Bachelor's in bio before medical school. My family dairy farm sells fresh milk and cheese on-site and I donate to my local food bank. The typical contemptuous internet gardening advice is "NEVER EVER........: or "Always no-matter-what,,,,," and watching your channel this year has helped me fill my yearly notebook already! Than0k Y
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I wait for a day that will be cloudy before a rainy day. I snip my sucker just as you do. I leave half as many leaves and immediately dig a deep hole, water, and place the sucker. The next day it rains. Within a week it is now a plant and it starts growing. Sometimes I may lose one but usually not. If I do I just repeat. I never transplant on sunny days. I suppose I could use shade cloth. I try not to let them go limp in the sun at any time.
Perfect!
When you pick the tomatoes for making pasta sauce, would you share your recipe with us?
I did this last year and sold the new plants. I do want to do it again this year, but make a kind of salsa garden in a pot for our new sun room. :)
I took four 6-8 inch suckers off my plants yesterday- they somehow escaped my usual sucker pinching (I have 40+ plants) I planted them deeply in pots and hoped for the best! They were drooping and wilting. My dog Jackson wanted to go out 5 minutes ago (6am) and all four cuttings are upright and look like plants already! 😊
I just started cloning my tomatoes this year. So far I have planted 3 and given away 6, several in pots as gifts, several as bare roots in water for my parents' garden and 2 that were in dixie cups for neighbors that wanted a tomato plant. I can't believe I waited this long to try it! Total game changer! Except now I feel guilty when I compost the suckers! :)
Take care and all the best from the San Francisco Bay area 💛
My season is later than yours so I'm getting my first ripe beefsteak tomato tomorrow. I just strung up all my plants in preparation for a storm with high wids, rain, and hail. Several suckers got big, had blossoms or fruit just starting, and were low hanging. For air and to prevent disease, I cut those suckers off. They were too hardy to toss, so I'm rooting them. This is perfect timing.
I have been begging people to take my spare plants and now I'm rooting more. 😂😂😂 I do have a sunroom I can put my self wicking plants in if it freezes sooner than expected.
Tomato and pepper plants are related. So any cloning techniques will apply to both.
BTW, some of my pepper plants are 5 years old now.
How do you keep them from freezing? Microclimate?
My experience with peppers suggests that they do not sucker readily.
@@kathyjacques2688 Indoors, or a zone 10a.
Just pulled up a beef steak that did produce over 6 tomatoes before getting yellow, so I planted a sucker that I did had it a dish size water feature outside for two weeks and Sunday planted it in the ground! It’s doing great. Red solo cup watch out because I’m doing what you did next weekend!!! Great video like always!! 🍅🌶
I just watched your video, I'm a first time vegetable gardener. I have 23 tomato plants, and I just went out to prune a sucker and planted right into my raised garden bed. All the other suckers just flowered and didn't want to take them off. We will see in a week or week and a half how it is going to do
I just pruned my tomato leaves plant today and get rid the suckers from the plant. I get a good amount of nice suckers and I plant those into a good potting mix. I've done this previously and it does work!
I did 6 sungolds and will be putting them out next weekend. I like to do them in soil.
I have 3 cloned plants growing now. They are at various stages and all doing well. The oldest of the three is flowering. The process is easy and seems to work well.
Last fall I picked a few suckers and grew them in my basement under lights. It's too cool to grow to get a good harvest so I just continued to harvest the suckers and threw away the first plant. Then I did that 2 more times and come May I had 8 plants . I gave 6 away, kept 2 and every one of them did great in the garden. Purple Cherokee. The best! I am presently doing it now for next season.
This is great. Going to do this to keep toms growing until last frost. Lost most of my blossoms during this last heat wave
You are looking happy and healthy! I took 10 clones from my Sweeties, 100% success rate. Going to be a long season. Started peas and beans for a fall garden today as well. Fingers crossed.
I over planted san marzano tomatoes this year but next year I am going to totally do this! Excellent Idea! I am really loving ALL your videos.
A cloned a sucker from my Roma tomatoes and it is really big already. I planning to go with so of the others now after watching this. Thank you! :)
just watched your video. i unfortunately trimmed my suckers off this past weekend. But defiantly will do this once i harvest my snow peas!
I did it few weeks ago. The roots started growing in a week, and I planted the suckers in 5 gallon self wicking buckets. They are growing.
I am another person here who has been gardening my whole life and did not think to do this. You posted this video at a very good time! We had a volunteer tomato plant come up in the garden and I just let it grow. The plant was most likely a cross between a chocolate cherry and an heirloom beefsteak that I received last year from a gentleman whose family had been passing down the seeds for three generations. It produces fruit about double the size of a cherry tomato, dark burgundy brown in color and we were amazed to find that they taste like a rich wine. Since it is a hybrid, it is not likely to come true to seed, but with your instructions, I now have four clones started that I will grow over the winter in a grow tent... able to enjoy them all winter and set out new clones in the spring. Not as easy as saving seed, but the glorious taste of this tomato is worth the extra effort! Thank you!
I always do this with indeterminate ones but this year I tried with a more determinate "patio" type. I wasn't even sure if it would work but I'm having some success, so far.
comrade7 mine rooted, but it hasn’t grown.
Good! Let me know how it turns out. I wasn't sure if you could do it with determinant since I don't normally grow those.
I think it's best to root suckers of determinate tomatoes before they set blossoms or fruit right?
I did it with a determinate patio tomato. Plant had been potted deeply and rooted from both sides, so I cut off one side when I repotted. Gave one to my mom, kept the other. Both are producing tomatoes galore
@@NextLevelGardening Are San Marzano not determinant? I thought that they were?
I rooted a bunch of my San Marzano suckers this year actually. I found the whole process was expedited if I put the sucker directly in the ground and provided it shade until it rooted. The plants seem to endure less shock and produce faster when I do it that way.
I actually just bought some Armenian cucumber seeds from Baker Creek. I’ll be planting those in a few days!
Great advice. I stuck a sucker directly into the soil near the original tomato plant.....and the sucker is growing well with tiny flowers. I’m so excited. Going to do more of this! Thks for the info! Ahna
I watched you video about two weeks ago and I went out and found suckers from two different varieties and planted them in soil with solo cups. They are now perky and growing and will soon be flowering. As you stated this method saves time and money. Can’t wait to see them grow out and produce. Thanks for sharing this valuable information on sucker preservation.
Hi guys... the garden is growing like crazy! The boys n I are having a Blast!!! We've got corn, cucumbers, beans squash, herbs... everything is so full and taste deeee-licious!! We've got tomatoes and currants out the wazoo so come on over Brian and take some pleeeeez 😁
Happy gardening 🧡
Going to use your tips to bring my best tomato varieties into my basement greenhouse for fall/winter. First time experiment and I feel ready to go! Thankyou!
Excellent tutorial. Thanks, Brian.
Wow, talk about "you've been doing it wrong"!! I learned so much from this video.. I found you by searching TH-cam for rooting tomato suckers (I didn't even know what a "sucker" was!!) and now I need to do a deep-dive on your channel. Your garden looks really awesome, those plants are growing so tall! Your trellises (trelli?) look so cool, I hope you have a video about your set-up. So glad I found you, you've given me a boost of confidence that I desperately need! Maybe my tomatoes will actually bear fruit this year.. fingers crossed. Thanks!!
Welcome!
I broke a stem earlier in the season. Stuck it in water then placed in my container and it's fruiting now! I'm going out to look for some suckers right now! Thank you!
Hi, thank you for the information. You make it so easy and I was surprised that you don't even need rooting compound. Great video as always, keep up the good work.
I have grown the Armenian variety cucumber and I prefer them to the conventional ones as well. Less bitter and better crunch factor. We like them thinly sliced and marinated with red onion and habanero in a white sugar and rice wine vinegar dressing. We like the thin-skinned Asian ones also. “Tasty Jade”, “Katrina” and “Diva” (Johnny’s Selected Seeds) are all excellent and can be field-grown. Trellising helps to keep them straight and improves yields. I never considered propagating tomatoes this way but I’m for sure going to try it. Thanks for the tips and techniques on this one. I seriously get way more good gardening ideas from this channel than the other 100 or so gardening channels I subscribe to!
Jet star is really great in Pennsylvania. There is a tomato festival only about 15 miles away .
Thanks again for your straight forward, information-packed session. Your comments about extending the season with new plants from suckers since it is so hot made me feel more confident. I had tried the water method a little earlier and got soggy bottoms (no leaves in the water) so I gently scrubbed them and transferred to soil. They are doing ok now! Whew. 🍅
Oh good! And you're welcome!
Adventitious roots are the best!
Thank you for this video! I have some Juliet Tomatoes( Hybrid) that I just took cuttings from. I'm in TX and my tomatoes have all given up. So I figure I can grow these better in the Fall. Also, Armenian cukes are AMAZING! I grew them 2 years ago, and when all my regular cukes bit the dust, these just kept going. The hotter it was, the more they produced. Love your videos!
I learned this in my first year of gardening last year. This year I have 5 extra plants because of cloning. Good thing I did as the first plants are petering out. Next year I am going to produce half of my tomato plants from cloning instead of 1/3rd.That will space out my plants to produce all season long.
thanks a lot.I think I will try these after my tomato harvest.I'm starting gardening in pots 2 months ago.
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I just grew my 1st Armenian cucumber and harvested the first one at13 1/2”. It was very good!!!
Brian - I was telling my husband what you said about the tomato suckers I had in a jar of water. What a great idea and thanks! You are awesome!!!
This is my favorite way to propagate tomatoes. I am part of a community garden and we need a lot of seedlings for our growing project for local food pantry.
I have been growing Armenian cucumbers for years now. They are amazing!
What an extraordinary guy!! wow. wish I had known this weeks ago, but hopefully I have enough time to squeeze this in. Good luck to me. TYVM once again
Thank you for making the video and sharing your knowledge on propagating tomatoes.
I have done this before in a cup with potting mix. First day or so I’ll leave them in a dark place to recuperate. Then I put them in a sunny area. It’s very simple to do. I live in South Texas where is very hot and humid most of the time.
Been doing suckers about ten years works great
Kegger cups are great for seedlings and cuttings because they take a long time to dry out. Early in a plant's like I will often take a smaller clear plastic cup and put it upside down on top to make a tiny terrarium.
But I like to keep them in trays that stop them from falling over, which they are prone to do.
I took some suckers off three of my plants...none were doing very well, no tomatoes. Been so hot here. But put them in a big cup with water and left them outside where they got sun, but not all day, they were under a tree for shade, and just put them in the ground because they had tons of roots. All three are doing fantastic in my raised bed. Magically now I have three tomatoes on my older plants!
Cool, I have been doing this since 1985 and it works great!!!!!!
Perfect timing! Was just trying this and did it all wrong! Lol. Now I’ll go back and try again. Thank you! 👏🏻😄
I planted suckers from 3 of my tomato plants a few weeks ago. All 3 took and one is already flowering. yeah more tomatoes!
I absolutely learned something new, thank you Brian! Can't wait to try this!
Love the shirt . . . my husband has the same one! I have already been taking out the suckers and doing the same method. I have my plants growing as fast as my other plants that started out from seed. As always, love your videos!!!!!
Hmm, I’ve composted so many suckers I hope I can still find some. Definitely want to try this since the squirrels have carried off all my big tomatoes. I’d really like a tomato crop in the fall. (Yes, crazy hot and humid weather in NC. 90’s-100’s).
Thanks Brian! This was a great video!! I'm going to do this.
I love the current tomato!!!
Ah! I wish I've known it in the beginning of the season to multiply some of the interesting varieties I got at the garden center. Too late now for our climate, since I've been diligently pruning all the suckers immediately😅. But will definitely try next year
I tried both methods of using water and right into the dirt. Both worked great! I did feel that I had to baby the one in the water more though.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Hoping to reboot my Tomatillo plants
Awesome! Thank you! This was very well done, and very well explained and demonstrated! I overwintered 2 tomatoes, so I am going to try cuttings while waiting for my seedlings to grow!
7:17 I did exactly that in my raised garden bed. I wasn’t expecting anything so I didn’t put in an ideal position and had to take it out.
As always. Learned something new. Great timing as I was just heading outside to check everything. Looking for those suckers. Also need to find those cucumbers!
Those cucumbers are great!
Thanks for the propagation tip. I never knew this. And I have been growing armenian cucumbers for a while and they are so delicious and no need to peel them!
My husband first learned about Armenian cucumbers from some elderly Armenian ladies, family friends. We have grown them ever since. They are more of a desert kind of plant as the climate in Armenia is quite dry. So they don’t need as much water and babying that our regular cucumbers need. The bugs don’t seem to mess with them as much. The fruit is burp less and has very little seed. As you know, the taste is Devine and almost never bitter. And they’re HUGE, and that doesn’t matter either as far as the taste goes. I grow it in a 5 gallon pail on my south western Kentucky deck ( it faces the north) . You will not regret growing Armenian cucumbers!
I grew the gold rush current tomato. If it is happy is can grow super big. I included them with some of my pickles and most everyone loved them
Great video! You’re so right. Super simple to do. I have 7 plants growing from what were suckers. The plants I planted early this year were victims of some late cold weather. They’re still growing but nor producing as much as I’d hoped. The sucker plants are doing great. Looking forward to a good Fall harvest of tomatoes this year.
I took suckers from both my Ananas Noire and Purple Russian tomatoes in mid May. I put them in 4 inch pots in the house about 2 weeks and then hardened them off. The first one has been planted outside about 5-6 weeks now, and it is already over 3 feet tall with 10 tomatoes on it. The other one got planted 3-4 weeks ago, and even it has at least 8 blossoms on it and is almost 2 feet tall. At the same time the plants that were planted in late March are having less than half the blossoms form fruit, even with hand-pollination.
Awesome instructions thank you, I’m in the south and my plants are having a difficult time even using shade cloth per your instructions
This is so informative and easy to understand, I love the armpit analogy 😂
Already been starting my tomato army!
I have beautiful huge sweet beefsteaks I’m going to try this both ways! Thx for the info. I needed a nudge.
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I definitely will try this. I threw out some bigger suckers today. Ran out to find them but couldn’t locate. Thanks for this video. I learned something today.
Great!
Great advice. Thanks Brian.
Thank you!
Fantastic. I've already been doing this, but it's nice to see the word getting out there. I've currently got 15 suckers planted, and I'll probably add a few more. Even if the fruit doesn't fully ripen by Fall in my zone 6A garden, green tomatoes can be tasty as well.
This is fantastic! I pruned my tomatoes almost daily last year. I'll get lots of free plants this year!
Man, great timing. I needed this. My San Marzanos aren't doing great. I've been getting blossom end rot, watering problems (I've been growing them in containers, they drain WAY too fast and don't hold onto water). And I think I've got curly top virus on top of it all. Good to know I can start again. Got a project for the weekend now. Thanks!!
Hi, I’ve several tomatoes in grow bags doing reasonably well but I set mine up with a plastic liner for the bottom 2-3 inches, some 4 inch diameter perforated pipe ( Home Depot) then a layer of weed block on top of it. The idea is to let only about 20% of the soil go down to the bottom of the bag to act as a wick. I used a piece of drinking water grade pipe to add water to the bottom of the bag (reservoir area). It wasn’t practical for me to set up piping for automated watering so I went this route. I still have to watch the soil daily when it’s over 90 but other than that, I usually only have to check it every 2 or 3 days, when it’s in the 60-70’s about once a week or so.
For containers try watering small amounts frequently (morning and afternoon) rather than deep watering. Watering large amounts in containers washes away all of the soluble nutrients and that leads to blossom end rot.
Ash Thanks, I’ll try that
I feel like that is what is happening with mine as well.
Brian, thank you another great video
You're welcome Mary Ann!
Awesome! I'm going to go take some clippings today. THANKS!
Good idea, I am about to top my indeterminates tomorrow because they are 7 feet tall. I am sure I have a few suckers though I have trimmed a lot this season. In Sacramento it is hot but not humid.
We only have one San Marzano this year so this video is great timing for me to try and clone a few more. We are in the SF Bay Area so we have warm weather through October-plenty of time for more tomato growing.
Fantastic! I'm definitely going to do this with my tomatoes. Thanks for all the awesome tips and tricks.