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Re: Cuttings from tomato plants to extend the season

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nan Sterman <nsterman@mindsovermatter.com>
> To: seeds-list@eskimo.com <seeds-list@eskimo.com>
> Date: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 3:17 PM
> Subject: Cuttings from tomato plants to extend the season
> 
> 
> Hi everyone!  I have a question about taking cuttings from tomato plants.
> I understand that it is relatively easy to root a cutting from a
> tomato plant, but how old is that newly rooted plant?  Will the new
> plant live later into the year than the parent plant will?  Is this
> one way to extend my season without starting new plants from seeds? or
> will the newly rooted plant go into senescence at the same time as its
> parent plant? Thanks a bunch!
>  Nan Sterman, Master Composter in residency San Diego County,
> California Sunset zone 24, USDA zone 10b or 11

The commercial growers in the Northern Hemisphere will be sowing tomato
plants from December onwards to get early tomatoes, they do all they can
to optimise the light but those early tomatoes never have the same
flavour as those grown in the longer days and the cost of fuel to grow
them at the required temperature can be enormous.
I have rooted cuttings of tomatoes, it can be useful at the beginning of
the season when you still have time to get a worthwhile crop, otherwise
there is no point in it. I have also kept tomatoes growing over winter
but they got smothered with aphids and when that happens you can get
virus transmission.

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Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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