overwintering tomatoes

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chimaera

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overwintering tomatoes
« on: September 20, 2009, 08:17 »
Has anyone tried keeping tomato cutting over the winter? With F1s that would save a lot of money and speed things up in spring. As they take so easily from sideshoot cuttings, I wondered if you could take cuttings now, keep them indoors till spring and then maybe take more sideshoot cuttings in spring to get lots of free plants that would not come true from seed.

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« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2009, 09:24 »
I've never heard of anyone doing it; wouldn't there be a risk of them getting very leggy and straggly by spring?

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Re: overwintering tomatoes
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2009, 10:32 »
my toms that are in the conservatory are already starting to go mouldy.
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Re: overwintering tomatoes
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2009, 16:01 »
I'm gonna try it. If they get straggly I'll just use them to take more cuttings from in spring.

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Re: overwintering tomatoes
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2009, 16:55 »
As this has been mentioned here and on another forum; I have taken 6 cuttings of rareish toms today.

I might just about get away with keeping them in their modules indoors over the winter, on the kitchen windowledge.

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Re: overwintering tomatoes
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2009, 09:04 »
Interesting :)

"wouldn't there be a risk of them getting very leggy and straggly by spring?"

Take fresh cuttings in the spring?  8)

I reckon that plants grown from cuttings may fruit one leaf-pair "younger", so may get another truss before they hit the roof. Cuttings [in Spring] may be less leggy than seed-grown too ...

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Re: overwintering tomatoes
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2009, 09:37 »
We will all be watching with interest.....  Please let us know how you get on.
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