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ozark_rocks
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Suckers

Last years blight nearly wiped out my tomato patch. I had eight arkansas travelers that lived till frost, but everything else died. :evil: Also a few years back hail killed all of my tomatoes. So this year I've been rooting suckers . I hope I don't need them, but want to have some spares, just in case. :)

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Hey, great minds think alike! Here are mine!

[img]https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/kimbledawn/suckerssm.jpg[/img]

[img]https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/kimbledawn/suckers2sm.jpg[/img]

I don't know what I can do with these plants. There isn't any room left to plant.

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I still have a few myself. They keep ending up in pots though. Still thinking about putting at least one more in the ground.

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ozark_rocks wrote:Last years blight nearly wiped out my tomato patch. I had eight arkansas travelers that lived till frost, but everything else died. :evil: Also a few years back hail killed all of my tomatoes. So this year I've been rooting suckers . I hope I don't need them, but want to have some spares, just in case. :)
Please explain the process for rooting suckers.

Kimbledawn, are yours from seed or suckers?

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Please explain the process for rooting suckers.

Kimbledawn, are yours from seed or suckers?[/quote


I go to the base of the plant and cut off one of the extra shoots growing at ground level, then I put it in a cup of water in the kitchen window. In about 3 or 4 days roots start to form. Its that easy. In about a week to ten days they have enough roots to plant. After planting, keep the soil moist for about a week. I like suckers because you can root big ones and have larger plants fairly quick. :D

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kimbledawn wrote:Hey, great minds think alike! Here are mine!

[img]https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/kimbledawn/suckerssm.jpg[/img]

[img]https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/kimbledawn/suckers2sm.jpg[/img]

I don't know what I can do with these plants. There isn't any room left to plant.



:wink: You have some good looking suckers. I'm out of room too, but don't want to be short on tomatoes again. I told the DH that I was going to start digging holes in the yard, but really considering putting them between my rows of cabbage and califlower.

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These were all overgrown suckers on my plants. I just couldn't throw them away so I put them in smaller pots with moist potting soil and sat them in a shady spot. In about seven days they already had tiny roots and no longer drooped. I don't know what to do with them because we have 17 plants in one bed, 3 in another and two in another bed. We also have 4 in 5 gallon buckets. :shock:

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Kimble where there is a will there is a way. You could give them to friends or family. If worst comes to worst, I admittedly had to toss a few, the compost is the next best thing soil and all. Than they won't be going to waste, they will end up food for the next go 'round.

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I've got some rather large ground level "suckers" too. I may just have to steal this idea and see how it goes.

If that doesn't work, I'll be happy to take a few off your hands :P

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ozark_rocks wrote: I go to the base of the plant and cut off one of the extra shoots growing at ground level, then I put it in a cup of water in the kitchen window. In about 3 or 4 days roots start to form. Its that easy. In about a week to ten days they have enough roots to plant. After planting, keep the soil moist for about a week. I like suckers because you can root big ones and have larger plants fairly quick. :D
That's what I love about this place ... learn something new every day!
I am going to have to try that (rooting suckers).

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Wow!!! Just clipped some off and tossed them. Not anymore - thanks!!!
:D



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