I started my winter tomatoes (greenhouse – Austin Tx) from cuttings and planted two of each variety into individual pots (8 total) that are 30-inches deep in fresh bagged planting soil.
The plant in the picture had a twin in the same pot that is much, much larger; my question is what would cause the roots to not grow more robustly?
Any ideas?
Thank you.
…Bryce
by welkinator
7 Comments
Mole maybe?
I think I see what the problem is – you pulled the plant out of the soil.
Too much water, possibly?
Or it just got unlucky and mutated the Bad Roots gene.
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If it were me, I’d cut off all branches below the red line and replant it burying it up to the red-line. The roots will come all the way to the red-line and when they do, it’ll thrive.
Where’s the tap roots? They’re in the soil still. If you’re judging the roots off what you see there, there’s still the bottom half of the root in the soil. The roots looked like they were doing their job till you ripped the plant out and tore the root ball. Hard to tell from a plant that’s been pulled.
There’ll be a bunch of tiny roots still in the dirt that got shorn when the plant was pulled. Stunted riot growth, might try putting a little mycorrhizal powder in around the dirt when you first plant them tomato seedlings, it might help boost root development. I am assuming good drainage.
Might be genetics of the clone plant. If you’ve had similar experiences with other clippings of the same clone.