Wow thank you. I think I might try to root a few pieces and plant them in my orchard. Wow it smells great!Chickadoodles great trees. The white tree it can be Japanese lilac. They smell divine. And its just the time when they bloom.
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Wow thank you. I think I might try to root a few pieces and plant them in my orchard. Wow it smells great!Chickadoodles great trees. The white tree it can be Japanese lilac. They smell divine. And its just the time when they bloom.
I assume the new growth from the original plants comes in the form of suckers or new shoots at the soil level? Why not just root suckers? Suckers are new growth tips/stems anyway and it wont affect the original plant, no delay either. Suckers can also be rooted in plain water and then hardened off and planted that way. Topping the plant that small seems counter productive and totally unecessary to me. Peppers on the other hand respond quite well to being topped young. Forces more lateral branching as opposed to vertical growth and makes for a bushier, fuller pepper plant.Frugal tip . I bought a 4 pack of tomatoes . Cut the tops off above a leaf . Potted the cuttings . They will wilt . Keep in the shade and warm . Within a week they will perk up . Meaning the cuttings have rooted . They will catch up with the originals . You loose a few days but they grow fast .I potted the originals into solo cups also . In a couple of weeks I will plant them in the garden .
New growth comes from the leaf node . I use suckers later for a late crop . At this point there are no suckers . This is just a cost saving for my few early plants . I also start seeds but never early enough for plants this size at this time . Just sharing what I do . Unnecessary ? Sure I could just buy 8 .I assume the new growth from the original plants comes in the form of suckers or new shoots at the soil level? Why not just root suckers? Suckers are new growth tips/stems anyway and it wont affect the original plant, no delay either. Suckers can also be rooted in plain water and then hardened off and planted that way. Topping the plant that small seems counter productive and totally unnecessary to me. Peppers on the other hand respond quite well to being topped young. Forces more lateral branching as opposed to vertical growth and makes for a bushier, fuller pepper plant.
New growth comes from the leaf node . I use suckers later for a late crop . At this point there are no suckers . This is just a cost saving for my few early plants . I also start seeds but never early enough for plants this size at this time . Just sharing what I do . Unnecessary ? Sure I could just buy 8 .
It would depend entirely on the growing season, and the availability of plant material at the desired time. Here, in the north, it would never work to wait long enough for a tomato plant in the ground to sucker to provide new plant material. By the time they get that big, the season is well under the way, and we often have a struggle to get tomatoes to ripen before first frost if we don't have access to a green house/cold frame. However, if not growing your own seedlings, and plants are available at the nurseries early in the season, this approach would be great. Because the plant already had good size, it would out pace seedlings. Tomato cuttings readily root, so the tops would take off and do well. The remaining rooted stem would do best if there were a few leaf nodes to send out new top growth. However, I wonder if this would work as well for determinates as it will for indeterminates.