How to grow tomato almost indefinitely

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One of the most popular plants in gardening is tomatoes, but a way to grow your favorite tomato indefinitely without purchasing new seedlings and seedsArs TechnicaJacqui Cheng is summarizing above.

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First of all we prepared tomato seedlings for 2 weeks. I treat it more carefully than a grown tomato because it is a baby. Why did you use baby seedlings? When growing plants, it is necessary to thin out some plants so that seedlings are densely packed so that they do not become short of sunlight or fertilizer shortage, but also thinned seedlings It can grow in another place. The root of the photo seedlings was cut, but this is because the adjacent seedlings and roots were too tangled. In addition, it is possible to grow tomatoes, not baby seedlings.


Although it is not essential, some people doing gardening may put a cut in the stem to encourage root growth.


It is OK even if the lower part of the stem is cut obliquely.


A hormone that promotes the growth of plants to grow roots "auxinSome people use plant rooting promoters, including, but according to Cheng, this is completely unnecessary. Also, many root promoters include pesticides, so should not be used when organic cultivation is carried out. However, it is also true that there are plants that are hard to grow roots as it is, so it is one way to push up the auxin level in that part by scratching or cutting the stem. In the case of tomatoes it is also a hand to bury grown seedling next to it.

And even if you use a rooting promoter or not, we will fill the stem in the soil the next process we cut. At this time, Mr. Cheng used compost, but not necessarily using compost OK. Even if we use what we bought for the soil of the garden or exclusively, it seems that it is better not to use the soil of the lawn so much. In addition, please confirm that there is a hole in the bottom of the cup at this time.


And if we can plant the seedlings in the soil, we drain the plenty of water and coat it with a plastic bag for every cup.


As the seedlings grow root, moisture is lost through the leaves more and more, so it is necessary to secure moisture firmly so as not to wither by covering with a plastic bag. Even if you cover vinyl, if you planted and seedlings were visible and sunk in few hours, it means that the roots are not absorbing water. It is very difficult for plants to absorb moisture from soil in the absence of roots,Cut flowersThat's why putting it directly in the water instead of the soil. However, if saplings collapse, do not worry because the roots will grow and revive in a few days.


So tomato that grew safely was here.


We will make further clones from the grown tomatoes. You can cut the sprouts growing on the top and even those growing from the middle of the stem are OK, but only the old leaves do not enter the choices. Please cut only the growing stems with small leaves attached.


Cut the stem obliquely.


However, leaves are too big as it is, so that a large amount of moisture will be deprived when growing roots, so cut all the big leaves that had grown from the lower side. I left only the smallest leaves.


Flower buds should actually be cut, but it seems that they tried experimenting on how to leave tomatoes on their roots as soon as they grew. Of course, it is the first thing that seedlings grow quickly, so cut it if it seems to get in the way. Then, as with the above, plenty of water, put a plastic bag, let the sun shine at the window side. Do not forget to check to see if the soil is moist enough at this time.


With a week, roots will grow firmly like this. As it will be able to see the inside, it is recommended to use a transparent cup when rooting process.


In this way you can cut stems and make new seedlings, and make tomato in infinite loop. Besides tomatoes, it is also possible to make clones of various herbs and vegetables such as roses, basil, chili and eggplants.