Propagation of tomato

I added a pack of Burpee's Sweet 'Seedless' tomatoes packs to my order and received them yesterday, Weee I got 11 instead of 10. Well the question..
Can I take a cutting off one of these tomatoes plants and , maybe keep it for next year ?
If so must the cutting be from the main stem or can it be one of the leaves ?

I have propagated tomato plants by just snapping off a young branch about the length of my hand or shorter and sticking it in potting soil, so I don't see why you couldn't do it with this seedless variety.

Thanks for the reply, I'll try it

i agree with "paracelsus" and take all the suckers you pinch and root them to thats what i have always done since i would of thrown them away any way. good luck "whitebear"

I have 7 plants from 11 seeds, here's one taken today.
This is a Burpee's Sweet 'Seedless' seed, a hybrid, I hope to take suckers from them and keep a couple of plants year round.

This message was edited Mar 28, 2009 1:46 AM

Good job!

rentman - I had a yellow pear tomato in a pot that barely hung on through our loooong HOT summer. I decided to try to overwinter it in the greenhouse. It not only survived, it THRIVED! I kept hacking off branches & suckers, rooting them in water, then sticking them in pots w/ potting soil - all but 1 made it & are growing well! I'm about to get an earth box & transfer my "mother" plant into it - the pot it has been in for nearly a year is way too small & impossible to keep watered! In my experience, tomatoes root very easily! Happy rooting! Samantha

Samantha, you and I are on the same page, that's what I will try this year and through the winter. see the edit of my last post.

I wanted to see the roots of the suckers I planted, after three weeks they looked like this, I would have liked to see more roots but these will transplant and grow.

I'd say you'll get more as it warms up - they love the heat. To a point, lol.