As in title, I accidentally snapped the main stem of my sweet 100 tomato plant while applying a trellis ðŸ˜
What will happen to the flowering if I try re-root the stem and will the main plant be fine? – I thankfully left a big sucker to grow where it was cut so I presume that will now become the main stem?
by ngeeeerrrrmm
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I envy you Southern Hemisphere Redditors.
That’s not a biggy. Another stem will replace it.
Congrats. Now you’ll have sweet 200 tomatoes!
Main plant will be fine, tomatoes are resilient and this is an indeterminate variety so will be a sprawling, branching monster in no time.
The cut piece may very well root; I’d remove the flowers so it can put the energy into roots. As it grows it will keep blooming.
This will turn into another plant. The original one you pruned from won’t care at all and will continue as a weed.
Tomatoes are great for rooting in water! Just change the water often; and add a few drops of hydrogen peroxide to the water first –the extra oxygen helps promote root growth & prevent bacteria. That’s what I read & do for cuttings.
If it were me I’d cut off any flowers and the 2 large leaf branches. If the plant has too many leaves to support while it’s got no roots it won’t like it.
There was a freak wind storm in the spring when I was hardening of my tomatoes outside, and one of my tomato seedlings had the top snap clean off so it was just a nub of bare stem…I kinda just left it to stay outside from then and didn’t really pay it much mind since I figured that was that and I had more seedlings than I needed anyway.
Lo and behold a month later when I was actually planting the tomatoes, that thing had grown new leaves and was pretty much the size again of the seedlings I was planting.
Stick it in a jar of water. It’ll turn into another plant.
It’ll be delayed but it’ll put out a sucker!
It’ll be fine, just wait a bit!
The broken off piece will root while fruiting. The main plant will be fine.