Tomato plant cuttings?

[Louise79]

Hello

Ive been reading up about taking tomato plant cuttings. I have got the method sorted on how to do it but what I cant find is when is the best time of year to take them?

Can I take now and keep them over the winter in pots or will they not last?

Any help would be very much appreciated!!

Thanks

[binley100]

I overwintered some last year but they do get a bit leggy so I then potted on the armpits.... They need to be in a frost free ,light place with just enough water to keep them ticking over.
I think I took mine September time but I'm sure I'll be corrected if wrong.

[Nik]

No. If you take cuttings now they will grow and you will probably get a few toms before either you get blight or they shut down because of lack of heat and sunlight. Unless you have a heated greenhouse, in which case I guess you can keep them going a bit longer.

I often replant tomato sideshoots and they usually do fairly well.

[Flummery]

I took some last year late on in the season with the express purpose of keeping them on the dining room windowsill (and taking them onto the table at night - windowsills get COLD in winter!) They did, as has been said, become leggy but in spring I took cuttings from the top shoots and they romped away. I got my first tomatoes on the last day of May (they eventually went into the cold greenhouse in the daytime). You can take them by putting the shoot in water for a week or so. It will then throw out roots and you can pot it up.

[Dicentra]

I ended up with quite a few requests for tomato plants in May and tried this method as I had run out of seed grown plants to give away. The resulting plants have worked out fantastically well! They caught up with the originals quite quickly and are cropping away nicely. I am going to try over wintering a few cuttings of varieties that I am most pleased with and try taking cuttings from the overwintered plants in Spring instead of sowing seeds.