Tomato plants come in one of two types: Determinate and Indeterminate.
A Determinate plant knows what it will be when it’s a seed. It’s gonna grow into a bush, flower, fruit, wilt and die. An indeterminate plant isn’t an organism, it’s a program. A stalk will emerge, it will grow a stem, from the stem will arise an alternate pattern of leafy branches and flower clusters. At the crotch of each leafy branch will emerge a sucker. That sucker will grow like a full plant, alternating leaf flower clusters and leaf branches, with their own suckers.
Tomatoes also have an interesting characteristic: Anywhere they touch soil, they’ll put out roots.
So pinch a sucker off a young tomato plant (part of pruning them) and then stick that sucker in some fresh, moist soil. It’ll put out roots and become it’s own plant, genetically identical to the original.
Took 5 minutes, most of it walking.
Good info about tomatoes. This will be my second year growing them and I’m still pretty ignorant about it.
Tomatoes are weird little dudes. Especially indeterminates. But, with a sunny spot in the back yard and some cages you can do a lot better than the grocery store can.
Yeah i had three san marzano plants last year. Prolific guys and they made fantastic sauce.