Clone a tomato plant (and fill your garden for FREE!)

Step 6: The Results

Using this exact process I have increased the amount of tomatoes plants in my garden for free.
The first picture is my "MOTHER" plant , the second picture is semi mature cuttings almost ready to produce fruit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good Luck

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GROW YOUR OWN FOOD !!!!!!!

GET YOUR KIDS INVOLVED, THEY WILL LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!

Comments

[_-A7X-_]

I would have given it a try this year but an early unexpected frost killed all my three mother plants :( next year my mom and I are going to try this. You're right about showing gardening to kids; I love working out in the garden with my mom!

[gogutu]

Va Rog sa fiti Nu Mai explicită a UE am inteles cum aceasta se confruntă cu clonare si CE FEL de pamant ati folosit , puroi CE ATI în el ? Rezervor te

[finton]

Google Translate says "Please be more explicit EU I do not understand how it is dealing with cloning and what kind of soil you used, pus à ® n What did he? Tank you" This is from Romainian.

[blewter]

 You could try a tea of willow tree bark.  I haven't used it but heard it's an effective organic alternative to synthetics auxins (rooting hormones).  Also, I have seen honey used quite frequently for planting clones, but I think its purpose is more of an antiseptic in this application (the cutting provides its own auxins and the honey helps keep infection or rot at bay until roots form).

[DSTNMAN05]

You can also improve your chances that a clone will survive by cutting under a node, leaving a node just at the bottom and pulling off any leaves (you want the node under the soil, or whatever medium you are using). Roots are most likely to form at the nodes.

[sedona007]

I heard that you weren't suppose to use rooting compound with edible fruit vegetation or any vegetation you eat. I haven never used it, and got results just planting the stems directly in the soil or rooting via water.

[tonysoprano6379]

Interesting thought, I had not heard the argument of the edible plants and rooting hormone.

I do agree totally that a hormone is not needed for success in this process!!!!

Thanks for commenting!

[thebriguy]

I heard the same thing and I believe it's printed on the rooting powder canister that it's a carcinogen.

I like your instructable. Thanks for sharing and showing how easy propagation can be!

[radiochemist]

you know the powder is poisonous too, you need to wear a mask if you're working with it. The gels work better because they also have B vitamins and a kind of soap to keep the cutting clean and you don't have to worry about breathing it in. Indole 3 butyric acid is a synthetic plant hormone they use in that stuff, your body will absorb it as estrogen. there's a warning on the back of the bottles not to use it on food crops. Use agar gel for rooting food crop cuttings

[Morganbarker]

 probably some kind of conspiracy to scare us out of cloning food crops. LOL

[C18H21NO4]

I think I'll play it safe and just not use the rooting hormone.