Then what do you do [in the winter] with these tomato plants that you’ve rooted?
I guess I will have to answer that next spring. lol
Seriously, we put 8- 4ft grow lights on our back porch along with some mega thick plastic sheeting and put our plants of all description there for the winter, which is short and mild here in SE Texas. We may use a heater there this year. We keep tropicals and succulents there without major problems. We should put them outside during warm sunny periods during cold weather, but it is a major effort to move them; we have a half dozen 20”- 24” containers and too many to count 12”-20” containers and my wife and I cannot handle them easily.
The maters, being food crop, may warrant in-house overwintering, along with my hot peppers.
“Then what do you do [in the winter] with these tomato plants that you’ve rooted?”
Well, I have never rooted one so the test is can I get one to root? I’d rather try now than next spring or summer so I can be sure I can do it by then. I’m in more south eastern Texas and we have a longer growing season than those even in central Texas but a tomato plant started now surely won’t make it through a winter here even though it doesn’t get very cold here. We usually have below freezing temps about twice a year lasting a couple of days and that’s it.
Put them in front of a south or west window. Add a couple of hours or so of grow light after sunset. Hand fertilize and you should get some slow growing tomatoes.