Grow Another Tomato Plant

When we first received stay at home orders here in San Diego County, my favorite local nursery took orders for only one day before closing. (Later as an essential business they reopened). Included in my order was a San Francisco Fog tomato plant. When i received it there were two stems of tomato growing out of the base. That’s not a good thing so with a sharp knife, I cut off the extra stem.

After stripping the lower leaves, I placed the extra tomato stem in water, changed the water daily and watched the roots grow.

When the stem looked like this I planted it in a mix of compost and organic potting soil.

Tomatoes root up and down the stem. That’s why you can bury it up to just the highest sets of leaves.

After my rooted stem became established in the gallon pot, I transplanted it to a 15-gallon pot one month later. Look at those roots.

You should be able to take a cutting from a tomato plant and root it. Think planting another of your favorite tomato plants for the second half of tomato-growing season.