tomatoes

professor greenfist

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are tomatoes a photoperoid plant or do they just bloom with age i have a flood light that shines in my back yard that fucked up a nice mary jane plant last year so im looking for some typeof auto flower veggies
 

drive

Active Member
Roma tomatoes come ripe all at once and sandwich tomatoes will flower all summer if that helps
 

Azoned

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I do not believe toms are photo.
The big difference is determinate and indeterminate. Determinates get a big flush of fruits then pretty much quit. Indeterminates go until frost, disease or drought kills them.
 

Toolage 87

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You might be able to keep the flowers off to prevent it from flowering. Might be able to have them flower later on.

I would try it my self but I would do it to a tester plant.
 

Carl Spackler

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It isn't necessary to manipulate the photoperiod of tomatoes to either induce flowering or, to take cuttings. Tomatoes are among the easiest plants to "clone". Several methods exist but personally I take a cutting from a plant and simply place it in a glass of plain tap water and put it in a window sill or on the back deck. Within 7-10 days new roots will appear and it should be ready for transplanting to soil. Tomatoes that are "indeterminate vines", naturally grow more or less in a sprawling, horizontal pattern and are very easy as well. As the vines grow outward, soil can be mounded up anywhere it touches the ground. Once roots have been put down by the vines in these locations you can simply detach it from the mother-plant and relocate to any sunny spot. Tomatoes grown later in the season are generally superior in flavor to early varieties so this makes cloning ideal for late starting clones.
 
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