Can you grow tomatoes from cuttings?

Propagating new tomato plants from cuttings is easy. We demonstrate how. A table illustrating the ideal months to sow, plant, and harvest.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
At its best
At its best	J Plant is not at its best in January	F Plant is not at its best in February	M Plant is not at its best in March	A Plant is not at its best in April	M Plant is not at its best in May	J Plant is not at its best in June	J Plant is not at its best in July	A Plant is not at its best in August	S Plant is at its best in September	O Plant is not at its best in October	N Plant is not at its best in November	D Plant is not at its best in December
To do
To do	J Do not To do in January	F Do not To do in February	M Do not To do in March	A Do not To do in April	M Do To do in May	J Do To do in June	J Do not To do in July	A Do not To do in August	S Do not To do in September	O Do not To do in October	N Do not To do in November	D Do not To do in December

Taking cuttings from existing plants in your garden is a great way of getting plants for free. Several shrub, herbaceous plant, and vegetable cuttings, including tomatoes, may be reproduced.

To improve your tomato output, take cuttings from your tomato plants and grow them on. They will produce fruit slightly later than the more developed plants that you took the cuttings from, but this may even help to extend the fruiting season into the autumn when grown in a greenhouse.

During May and June, tomatoes often need their side shoots snipped off to help promote more growth the the main stem. Using tomato cuttings means you can not only produce new tomato plants for free, but you can also put your off-cuts to good use.

You Will Need

• Tomato plants
• Secateurs
• Glass of water
• 10cm pots
• Multi-purpose, peat-free compost

Step 1

Remove undesirable side branches from plants, retaining those 10-20cm in length.

Cutting off side stems to produce tomato plants from cuttings

Step 2

Lower leaves should be removed and placed in a glass of water on a sunny windowsill.

Tomato plant growth from cuttings – cutting in water

Step 3

Keep it moist, and a healthy root system should emerge in three to four weeks.

Tomato plant growth from cuttings – rooted cuttings

Step 4

Plant into 10cm pots and grow on until well rooted. Later this year, new plants may bear fruit.

Growing tomato plants from cuttings – potting the cuttings

Related Questions

• Can you root tomato cuttings in water?

  Even if you’ve never tried propagating plants with cuttings before, you’re practically guaranteed success. Tomato cuttings are so simple to root that they will even root in a cup of water. Having said that, plants grow stronger when they are rooted in soil.

• Can you grow another tomato plant from a cutting?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZWwiCL1_Q

• Can you regrow tomatoes from scraps?

  But it was a surprise to me that you could slice up almost any tomato, drop it in some earth, shower it with water, sunshine, and plenty of love, and voilà! —you’d get bright-green seedlings ready for replanting in about two weeks.

• Can you regrow tomatoes in water?

  You can also stretch your tomatoes, by taking “branches” off at the end of the season, and putting them in a vase of water, changing the water frequently. The leaves will get crunchy at the end, but the tomatoes will continue to ripen.