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Tomato suckers
Just this year I've learned the difference in tomatoes. What do you do with your suckers? I've had a few big ones and I've taken them and just stuck them in MM and they are growing great
MarcyG- Posts : 129
Join date : 2010-06-03
Age : 50
Location : North east OHIO
Re: Tomato suckers
I would transplant them if I had the room, but I don't, so mine all go in the compost pile.
When late fall arrives I'm going to try to save one or two from the smaller tomato plants so I can pot them and bring them inside. Maybe I can get some fresh tomatoes in the winter this way.
When late fall arrives I'm going to try to save one or two from the smaller tomato plants so I can pot them and bring them inside. Maybe I can get some fresh tomatoes in the winter this way.
quiltbea- Posts : 4712
Join date : 2010-03-21
Age : 81
Location : Southwestern Maine Zone 5A
Re: Tomato suckers
What a great idea. How large are the suckers that you remove for transplanting?
HouseofWool- Posts : 107
Join date : 2010-06-09
Location : SE Wisconsin
Re: Tomato suckers
Gosh...I just learned you can replant the suckers...I just pruned my mators yesterday--which now look butcher to me.
Maybe I was just too prune happy. I'll know to do this next time around.
Maybe I was just too prune happy. I'll know to do this next time around.
AprilakaCCIL- Posts : 219
Join date : 2011-06-30
Age : 50
Location : Zone 7b
Re: Tomato suckers
they were about 10-12 inches long
MarcyG- Posts : 129
Join date : 2010-06-03
Age : 50
Location : North east OHIO
Re: Tomato suckers
I transplanted one that got away from me and was around 12 inches long. I rooted it first in some water. It's growing great, but I don't know if there will be enough time to get tomatoes from it where I live. I usually just pitch the suckers. At first, I felt sorry for them, then decided they would keep production down and my original plants would not be as strong, so off they go.
stripesmom- Posts : 291
Join date : 2011-03-28
Location : SE Iowa
Re: Tomato suckers
good to know. I have some suckers that got away from while I was on vacation...
HouseofWool- Posts : 107
Join date : 2010-06-09
Location : SE Wisconsin
Re: Tomato suckers
I clip them off when they are just 4-5" long root them in water and plant them in 4" pots of Mel's mix after about they are big enough to transplant into the garden. When I don't have room for them all and I never do, I give them to the other gardeners in my neighborhood and gardener friends. When I put them into the garden I cut off the lowest leaves and plant them deeper than they were in the pot.
No worries April you will soon have more.
No worries April you will soon have more.
shannon1- Posts : 1697
Join date : 2011-04-01
Location : zone 9a St.Johns county FL
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