John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you two ways he gets free tomato plants from his garden. In this episode you will learn what a tomato…
Question by Megs: How long will tomato plants produce fruit if they are indoors or in a greenhouse?
I have several tomato plants that are currently in a small greenhouse, but I was planning to plant them outdoors soon. I have an early girl, several cherry tomato plants, and a few big boys. I live in the Pacific Northwest, so I’m wondering if I repot one or two of the plants and keep them in the greenhouse, how long will they produce fruit for?
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A long time. I think they can produce for a year or more. Although if fast-acting fertilizers are used, they tend to start yellowing and losing branches and leaves from the bottom up, as they “live fast, die young”, and basically burn out before their time. A good slow-release organic fertilizer, followed by side dressings of compost every 3 months should keep them happy for a long time.
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Hi John, I am on a small fixed income. I always pick 3 ( cherry) tomatoes and bury them in my garden in the fall, divide the plants in the spring once they come up and have several plants in my garden. Costs nothing and I have found them to be the healthies of the tomatoes. I also pull the suckers and plant them as well. I eat as much as I can and then I can as much as I can and take the rest to the neighbors and to the food bank. If I did not have my garden I would need the food bank.
volunteer tomatoes are always the hardiest ones in my garden, they’re the best built ones for your soil imo
not knowing what kind of Tomato, does not mater due to cross pollination, so if yummy keep it, else toss the seeds not, into the compost, LOL.So in short all Tomato’s are all Tomato’s ask the bees for more info.
Great video really well done
The visual and anatomical explanation, were just what I needed. Great video thanks!
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So it takes two seasons for the seeds to germinate? I moved a raise bed and all the soil to a new location and hundreds of tomato plants started springing up after I planted cucumbers I bought this year. I ended up with a couple of pumpkins too from the ones I threw on the compost from Holloween.
I actually just last week started some more tomato plants of the ones i liked most in my garden by sticking the suckers in a glass of water. Once the roots just start to form i’ll pot them up and eventually plant them out. Great video as usual John. :0)
Well done as always John. Another thing that has worked very well for me near LA is to find a local farm that is growing the tomatoes locally that they sell. I suggest buying one and germinating the seeds after leaving them in the sun with a little water for about a week.
I leave at least half of the suckers just to help shade the fruit, i want the extra leaves to protect the tomatoes from the sun.
John! I just had my first home-grown vine rippened tomato thanks to you!
me to,,,LOL
now im wondering if i damaged my plants?
I get a lot of “volunteers” with my plants as well. This year I must have had 20 or so volunteer tomato plants. I knew they were either romas or chocolate cherry tomatoes but didn’t know which might be which. I transplanted them into some small containers than I brought them to my office at work and put them with a note telling people they could take a couple home. Before the end of the day, they were all taken home. Makes me feel good to share that way. ~Amanda
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Thanks, John.
What is your potting mix is it the same as your raised beds?
I can’t wait for the pumpkin sex video! ;}
Tomato question: What do you know about ‘blossom end rot’? I’ve read the epsom salt can be used to solve the problem. What do you have to say about it?
If you watched this video for 11 minutes to find out how to get free tomato plants then the tomato sucker is YOU!
If you like small tomatoes, try Tommietoes (Tommy toes) they taste great and are heavy producers. It is a variety that has been around for quite a while, I remember them from my grandparent’s farm back in the 1960’s.
Tomato plants used to be cheap, but now they are not. I am harvesting suckers to grow as plants to save on money.
I like to bring plants, or cuttings, indoors just before winter and keep them alive for spring planting. I was not able to do that this past winter, but I plan to do that again this year.
It is difficult to keep a very small plant alive, but much easier with a larger plant or cutting.
Some cuttings will do fine in plain water without any soil at all.
LOL, keep those pits clean! Great job, keep’em coming.
Thank you, John. It’s a nice, sunny day. I’m going to check out my tomato plants and look at those suckers.
thanks for clarifying what exactly is a sucker. I was always pinching off the branches =/
Love your tip on covering the stem with soil. That I did not know.
I don’t know definitively, but sometimes I overwinter mine in the kitchen and they continue to produce, albeit not as well as with warmth and full sun.
It depends on how much light and co2 you give to them. They will stop produce if they can’t get enough material to produce. So I’m using a LED grow light to grow tomatoes indoor. They do produce more than ever.
Tomato plant need around 12 hours of day or any other kind of light, and temperature to be from 20-25 degrees celsius.