Growing World: Designing and Building Your Own Home Hydroponic System, Part Four: Let's Get Growing
One of the management tasks required for a tomato plant is the regular removal of lateral spurs that emerge just above a leaf or fruit spur node. Most of this superfluous plant material will be trashed. However, it can be a useful source of plant material for propagation.
As mentioned in the previous issue, it’s my intention to produce our new plants from seed, cuttings taken from plants from that same seed batch, and cuttings taken from plants that I have been growing for some time--plants that have proven themselves to be good producers. Cuttings propagated from these good plants should be clones of the mother plants and therefore, also be good producers.
