How to clone a tomato plant

In this video I wanted show how I clone my tomato plants. It is much faster than growing from seed and you can save money in the long run doing it this way. Enjoy.

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• Cloning
• tomatoes
• gardening.

[bobsbackyardcouk]

hi mate and thanks for all your cool info, rockwool or fibreglass dont mix well with fish apparently fibreglass is irritant to fish, keep up the good work

[TheSuburbanGardener]

@bobsbackyardcouk Good to know. Thx for the tip.

[TheSuburbanGardener]

I would put them under a fluorescent light, similar to the one in the video. You dont have to have a dome if you spray the leaves with with water several times a day. That helps the plant survive until it develops roots. thanks for the comment.

[TheSuburbanGardener]

Peppers are in the nightshade family, so it should work. I would definitely use the rooting hormone for peppers since they have a more woody stem structure. Don't forget to plant em' deep.

[pup9et]

Ok i have to ask. Whey wouldnt you just seperate the plants from the pot and grow them ? what are the benifits of doing this ?

[samljer]

@dynex60 Ive done side by side tests, rooting gel/powder shaves days off

and increases retention of water.

The plant hormone in the gels are very real, and trigger real growth

its called indole-3-butyric acid and changes the cells just under the skin into roots

"the plant version of stem cells basically"

so you should keep your lack of any sense to yourself before you teach newcommers

wrong information.

[dynex60]

The only thing a rooting powder really does is prevent rotting.

I've had a clone develop about 15 one-inch roots in 3 days this way with the water pretty warm.

[dynex60]

Yeah... I just drop like 6 cuttings into a party cup with water and a bit of cloning powder and keep it in a warm area.

This way you don't have to have a humidity dome or spray them, Because they suck the water up much easier than in a soil.

Also make sure their not in too intense of light because you want more of the energy to go to root production instead of foliage growth.

[rico111cruz]

they said not to use the rooting powder or gel a food or feed

[JPhelps702]

It would also help the roots take faster if you make a second cut under water and then make a small cut the long way or scrape off some of the stem at the bottom before dipping it in hormones.