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Gardening

NRaleighLiberal

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9. You can do a few things.....see below

Reply to intheflow (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2013, 04:16 PM

May 2013

You can cut the top 6 inches or so and root it in water (takes a week or so, sunny window), the pot it up and leave it in the shade for a week - you will have a clone of the plant. You can do the same with the sideshoots growing lower down. Tomato plants are tough - as others said, you can plant it very deep, or sideways - if you do, root one of the lower sideshoots just in case to have a back up.

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Question about spindly tomato plants. [View all] intheflow May 2013 OP

you could... nebenaube May 2013 #1

I wouldn't prune them like that. beac May 2013 #2

Just plant them sideways NJCher May 2013 #3

They're already 2.5 feet tall, intheflow May 2013 #4

That's exactly the type of plant that should be buried neck-deep Gormy Cuss May 2013 #5

should have mentioned NJCher May 2013 #6

I'm giving it a shot! intheflow May 2013 #7

Plant them deep - tomatoes can put out new roots from the leaf nodes Retrograde May 2013 #8

You can do a few things.....see below NRaleighLiberal May 2013 #9

I ended up rooting planting them sideways. intheflow May 2013 #10