A Gardening friend requested a how-to on making bottomless pots. This short video should cover it with lots of good info. How do you make your bottomless pot…
How to grow a Strong Dual Vine Tomato Plant using homemade bottomless pots.
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I think you will find that any stem even crawling over mulch will still set
roots.
I have an alternative for you to experiment with. Instead of “bottomless
pots”, why not layer a foot or more of mulch on top of your beds and then
pull away a round section (like a nest) and fill it with compost? I think
you’ll find it works in much the same way as your bottomless pots, but
without the plastic!
Good Idea. I know the plastic part does suck. It’s just something we had
that we try to reuse. But the whole point to this RB is based on say a
volunteer tomato plant that’s not caged and crawls on the ground. Any part
of the stem that is exposed to the ground would grow roots. Burying
tomatoes deep doesn’t always create roots “all along the stem”. It seems to
only create roots within the first few inches of soil which is why i put
bottomless pots at multiple points along the stem.
and allow it to sucker out and produce fruit if size of the fruit is not a
concern. But if you want larger fruits you can treat it like a single stem
plant and prune all the suckers on the main multiple leaders :). Hope that
made sense.
Yes if the vine can sprawl on the ground without touching the ground you
can keep adding bottomless pots to allow more roots to grow along the stem.
But if it grows upward – then you can prune it like a regular single stem
plant but with multiple main stems. You get more production for the money
and lower fruit set / more production and a stronger rootmass. There is no
right way as far as how you want to manage it.. you can let it do whatever
it wants. (replying to explain)
Your welcome
Thanks for watching.
What would take 5-10 mins to explain in a video can be shown in 46 secs.
This is such a simple concept it doesn’t need much explaining. Most will
understand it on first glance.
Thanks so much for making this! I’m going to do this with a few of my
tomato plants soon. They look like they could use the boost.
This is really smart. Thank you for sharing.
No your absolutely right. A walk through would have been a nicer video
explaining it. Unfortunately, any type of video rendering takes ALOT of
time. A 10 min video would sometimes take me 2-3 hrs to clean up the
footage and piece it all together. And if you have followed my videos i
have a little one – who wants me to play with her all the time. Just
imagine a 2 year old.. pushing your hand moving your mouse during video
editing. It’s a miracle i can even put these videos out to share.
Thanks for sharing!
Your welcome Jeanette. This would of been impossible to show on FB
Lower fruit set means – Clusters of tomatoes closer to the ground not Lack
just to clarify.
of tomato setting
Thanks for watching! I should have some updates on this plant soon.
Yes it would. But making videos takes a lot of time and editing on top of
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uploading time. This is just simpler for me to get the point across to the
person who wanted a how-to on making bottomless pots. I figured it would be
helpful to others to get a little bit more information than a simple
bottomless pot how-to. I don’t make any money off any of these videos
only upload them to help people out. Doing a slide show for me is less time
consuming and i can maximize the info provided.