[greeneyes]

If your nights are in the 40’s, you probably won’t see any progress with the tomatoes. They need 50s at night. You could try covering them with row covers or plastic in the evening.

It also helps if you have surrounded them with stones or bricks on the north, east, and west sides a foot or two high. The sun will heat the rocks and release the warmth after the sun goes down and the row cover/plastic helps keep it in.

[Marcella]

Today, I watched a Utube guy take cuttings from a tomato plant to root it and he had examples of the ones he had already rooted. I have never done this, know nothing about it, so I will use his method to see if I can root one from the Mortgage Lifters I have outside. By coincidence, he was rooting Mortgage Lifters.

You snip off suckers to root. Where the stalk meets a limb, in that spot where they come together, is where the sucker will start growing. Snip it off with your hand, put it in a jar of water in the house and it will root. When the roots are substantial enough to hold it in the soil, plant it.

He had examples of rooting in water and planting and just putting the sucker in the soil when you snip it off, and those rooted in water were excellent and the ones planted in the ground before rooting, were pitiful, some dead, but a few still alive.