Cloning tomatoes.

Tomatoes are by far one of the easiest plant's to clone. Simply take a cutting from where you please on the plant and Put it in a small jar of water, i use baby food jars, Change the water whenever it gets murky and keep it topped up to your original fill line, i personally put a small line with a jiffy marker on the jar so i can keep it consistent. Once they have began to give root's transfer them into small pots with your preferred mix of potting soil, i like to put a small amount of sheep manure in each one, I use small pots to start, approx 4 inches tall by 3 wide and use one table spoon of manure mix in. Sometimes i cheat cause of how easy it is to root tomatoes, i make a small slice in the stock where i plan to cut it off and use a spray bottle to keep misting it and once it starts to make small bump close to where i sliced i just cut it off and put it directly into the pot and skip the jar of water step and just saturate the soil the first 2 weeks and then cut back to normal watering after the cutting has began to root and perk back up. Cloning is a great technique as you can take many plant's from one larger plant. And also great for if you have a plant that grew really hearty and well and you want to preserve its genetics for the next year around, below is a picture of one that i cloned off my roma tomatoes at the end of september. as you can see it is rather slim, but healthy, this one i have not gave any artificial light, it has grown purely off the small amount of quality light we get from the sun in a day where i am, i live in saskatchewan canada and we dont get the best of light during the winter, sometimes we have cloud cover for week's on end, this shows how resilient of a plant tomatoes really are. by far one of the easiest plants to grow. in about another month i will cut a bunch of clone's off of this clone to start for my spring garden. i started with 10 roma tomato plants 4 years ago, and picked my best one at the end of the year and cloned it and then in spring, took clones from it and just keep repeating that process each year. I have had fabulous results with it. as you can see my plant is starting to flower, those i will just pinch off as to allow the plant to get thicker and larger before taking clones off of it. and will do the same with all the clones until its time to put them out in another 3 month's