Tomato Sucker EZ DIY rooting

by Pamela Scruggs

I enjoy generating free tomato plants from the tomato plants I have growing from the seeds I kept from last year's tomatoes.. (hahaha that was a mouthful :)

these are some suckers pruned off

I had this old pitcher leftover from a ninja that got broken instead of throwing it away I have turned it in to my rooting pitcher.

Kabob skewers

this is my easy hack to keep the stems suspended into the water and the greenery up above from falling into the water

Use rainwater if u can

Works pretty well..and it makes me happy to have repurposed something that was destined for the trash..and it costs a lot less than a mason jar because it was free.

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Adventures In Junking on Jun 05, 2015
My interest isn't the container but the cuttings - are these "suckers" that you have grown from seed or "suckers" that you have pinched off plants that you have grown from seed?

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- Pamela Scruggs on Jun 07, 2015
  these are suckers that I cut off of plants you threw me a loop there I did not know that you could grow "suckers" from seed. some of my indeterminate plants were so Hardy and grew so tall and fast I couldn't keep up with getting out there pinching off the suckers...so they had a chance to grow pretty long. Also, when I want my indeterminate tomatoes to stop growing taller and put more energy into the existing plant I chop the top off and I reroot that and and start another plant..this gives rise to the notion that if you get five or six tomato plants going really good you can use the reroot Sucker system to propogate into 20 or 30 plants...if you really needed that if many
  
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- Jan on Jul 16, 2017
  How long does it take for the roots to grow? And then you plant the rooted sucker in the garden??? Tell us more about that part of your plan. I have a much shorter growing season in Iowa than you do in Florida.
  
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- Katht on Sep 03, 2021
  
  The suckers are pinched off of the mother tomato plant. You can pinch them off and strip the bottomleaves off of the sucker stem, place it in water, wait for roots then plant again for a new tomato plant. You can also leave the suckers on and the will produce fruit as well.
  
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B.j. Baker on Mar 26, 2017

confusing article,, is it about the container or the cuttings?

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- Anne Hayes on Jun 06, 2018
  
  Does it really matter? Both suggestions gave me food for thought.
  
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- Michelle on May 19, 2019
  
  It was about using the container to hang the plant and for it to keep from going into the water, is what I read. Both really good suggestions.
  
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