Air layering.

Today I started a new adventure in learning how to air layer, truth be told I should have started much sooner than today. But it is what it is.

I’ve also started taking suckers off of my strongest tomato plant to make starts with. It’s well over 6′ tall and has produced fruit all summer and is still blooming.

I had earlier stated it was a beefsteak but have to correct myself and say it is, in fact, a better boy hybrid. So saving seeds may not work out, but I have plenty of room for starts, and I can hopefully overwinter them.

What I will do is get around six or seven good strong starts and use them to get more starts through the winter months.

By the time spring starts, I’ll have plenty of tomato plants.

I put the first pod on a rose bush and am counting the days until I can check for roots. I’m just hoping I have enough time before it turns cold.

I filled the pod halves with potting soil, scraped the stem a little, I then put rooting hormone on the stem and placed the pod around it. Now I wait a couple of weeks and see how it goes.

Air pod attached.