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How To Care for Mother Plants

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Genetically speaking, everyone has a mother. In the horticultural world, being a mom means you either produce seeds sexually, or clones asexually. There are a few different techniques you can use to reproduce plants without needing pollen from the parent plant(s) to produce seeds. The newest, most scientific way to do this is tissue culture. This…

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Starting Tomatoes from Cuttings

A few weeks ago I started a test to see just what was the best way to start tomatoes from cuttings, which in case you didn’t know is the same thing as cloning. After hunting around online for some info on what was the best way to clone tomatoes I came away with FIVE different…
July 24, 2015
Callie

Best Way to Clone Tomato Plants?

It might sound kind of silly wanting to start new tomato plants so far along into the gardening season, but there are reasons why you might want to. For someone who lives in the extended warm weather climate of the South for instance, fall tomato crops are the norm, while in the North bringing one…
July 4, 2015
Callie