Well, it is so hot and since I got my first tomatoes growing a little late....I'm getting nice plants and some blooms but sure doesn't look like tomatoes are in my future. So I saw where someone was using suckers for a fall crop. When I saw you had a video on this, I knew it could be done. Much respect to you for your knowledge, hard work and sharing to anyone who needs it---like me. lol Thanks a million and Jesus bless.

Seeing your video made me smile. You are the one who helped me to feel confident enough to try gardening four years ago. What a blessing. Prayers to you and your family.

Man, is it good to see you making vids again... I hope you can find time to put together a full season of fresh vids next growing season. That would make my day(s)! LOL

So nice to have you back! Hope to see you again soon!

Nice to see you back Bobby!

Lots of people are glad you are back, me included Thanks

Great to have more frequent vids from you again!

That's awesome. I have done some jalapeno and tomatoes this year in pots. I'm getting better every day but next year going to put in a small garden in the back. Thank you for these great videos.

So glad you are back...😁

This is how I've been growing the same tomato plants for 6 yrs without starting from seed every yr. They look great.

So happy to watch your video's. Missed you. :)

my mother used to keep a tomatoplant in the kitchen window (an old house with old style windows and tall rooms) where it spent 4 years. we had tomatoes even in winter. I also have a 5year old chili plant that I keep in the living room.that is out on the balcony during fost free days. This way you can clone plants before outdoor season starts and have nice strong plants that don't need to be grown from seed.

OMG I love you so much I learnd from you a lot You're amazing .. so happy to see you back Thank you thank you very much 🌹😘🌹🌹🌹

Bayou gardener, Donald was looking down on u and bless u with a good crop.. I sure did enjoy his videos 👍🙏

Good advice. Our garden was planted late but we're ready for fried green tomatoes now and picking a few red ones. Ummm so good.

Liked your stuff, learned alot. Thanks

Good to see another tomato growing video from you Bobby. We have not had any recent updates on your dutch bucket tomatoes, so hopefully you will tell us if you are still using them & how they are going? One big difference between growing in the soil & growing hydroponically is that the plants in the soil have access to all the silicon they need ..... but with hydroponic growing you need to add it in separately. Silicon is found in all the plants cell walls when grown in soil. It improves the plants resilience to heat (& cold) stress & to disease. It is not found in hydroponic nutrients as it is very alkaline (pH 10 to 10.5). Commercial growers use it but rarely talk about it. They purchase liquid silicon & add it to their water stock before adding in their nutrients. It is not cheap but a very small amount goes a long way. Silicon also helps the produce have a longer shelf life & be more robust during transportation. Keep on growing Bobby!

GREAT SIGHT OF YOUR EFFORT!! PLANTS SURE ENJOY THEIR CARER PROOF OF PRODUCE..ALL PLANTS RETURN TENDER CARER THE RESULT!!

Glad you're back, we missed you. God bless

Love the intro!

huh, I did not know you could do that with tomatoes.. thanks for the video mate.

Beautiful work bro

Great looking tomatoes! Watched some ads and commenting to help with the KZfaq algorithm, so more people can enjoy this content!

great videos thanks for the tips

I did the same thing on the Southern Oregon Coast... Now I have 2-3 ft. plants with green tomatoes on them... Have fun and try this too...

Glad to see you back. Life gets busy. Hope to get more knowledge. Time to take Cajun’s torch and lead the way brother.

Thx gives me hope for new crop..

Welcome back !!!!!!!!!!!

great informative video. you did in 2:43 mins what some ppl will take 10 minutes, with out any of the flab and bla-bla these people include. so i appreciate your comprehensive well thought out and well presented video.

Great mr.👍👍👍👍

Good video......i do this all the time so i have plants of different maturities right through the season.

Thank you sir... Much appreciated!!

We hope you are doing well. We miss seeing you and your videos!!! Really do hope everything is well.

Done that before and nice into. Thanks

very nice design ur plant.

Nice Donald style cages there!!

I'm trying the same. I'm thinking l'll put them in the greenhouse. Thanks Bobby. Lache pas!

So basically, you get two crops from your tomato plants - summer and fall. Sounds like a good plan. 👍 I like stretching food, in this case, plants!

Good job, I should try. Thanks

I need to try this next year

This works great!

A good option for you southerners is doing a barrow and ditch method. Dig out the ditch and pile onto a barrow row. High and more mounded land for growing vegs. Ditch controls rain storms and walk path, for deep irrigation. If you do permaculture or hugelkultur, then put wood chips into the ditch (sucking up some water and decomposing). Next year, one must transfer all the barrows over the ditch (overturning the soil), and this creates that black gold soil under the new barrow. Do the new ditch with chips. Eventually, with seaons you will building up within 6 years nearly 6-12 inches of black gold soil - depending on how much depth of wood chips you put into the ditch. 4-6 inches can make 1-2 inches of soil. 8-12 inches makes more. With further deep rototilling and fluffing the soil for a very dark and rich mixed-up black gold soil and the local soil, you can have a truly dynamic growing bed. And if you have such tractor or backhoe and be able to push over large amounts of the barrow into the ditch, then pour an ammonia base on the rest of the ditch wood chips (helping the nitrogen decomposing process) but making a DEEP nitrogen plant root nutrient resource. Overlay the ditch and allow the decomposing to continue in accelerated fashion. You will have massive plant growth. Having the time for further development, posthole dig out small holes and insert a PVC pipe deep into the barrow. Multiple pipes along the barrow length. Even put in 5 gallon buckets with drilled out drip irrigation tiny holes. No more flatlander watring the soil, and moisturizing the air. Pour in the water (and such NKP etc) into these pipes and buckets, and they will water the deep barrow soil down to the water level, making the plants dig strong and sturdy root structures. All water goes into the soil - not the air. Maximum irrigation and fertilization. Also fertilize in the fall, not the spring. Fall, fall rains, winter rains, spring rains - spring growth and summer production. Fertilization gets deep into the soil - versus fertillizing in spring only creates summer and fall GROWTH versus production. So having these vertical PVC pipe sections or 5 gallon buckets, maximize the fertilization into the barrow soil over the winter. When you overturn the barrow soil in spring into the ditch, all that deep nitrogen will be a massive source for the small plant roots to grab and growth like hop vines (1+ feet per day).

Thay look great

I did the same thing for my mom with her suckers, she loves Park Whoppers! I just have such a problem with worms during the late summer here in North Florida... I grow nice plants but critters just feast on them! I can try to spray some BT, but it rains so much that it gets washed off. Glad you can get some nice ones.

Like !!! Greetings from Russia ,!

Awesome!

good video...

I found if you dig 2 or 3 small holes around each plant and fill with water it goes into the ground much deeper and you get better plant roots. Dig about the size of a golf putting hole. And less evaporation in dry areas.

Just pruned but I’m still picking from a few late plants.

Hey Bobby good to see you back, my question is when do I need to sow candy onion seeds to have slips for spring transplanting for central Kentucky any advice would b greatly appreciated I'm having no luck with them .lol

Thanks WoW

This year I've been playing with double growing my tomatoes. What I did was wait until my indeterminate single stalk tomato plants were about 6 feet tall and let a sucker grow from the base of the plant. When the main stalk reached about 9 feet I topped it off. By then the sucker was mature and producing tomatoes. I just clip them to the same string as the main stalk. I assume that with the large root mass already established I get quicker growth. I did this with 14 plants and they all worked great.

This is what every tomato grower needs to do with all their suckers and keep a continuous source of tomato plants ....

Didn't know you could do this with cutttings.. Cool!

Nice...

I have noticed you've done many experiments. Have you kept the Dutch bucket system? What system did you settle on for lettuce? I love your informative videos.

COOL !TY

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when you have to buy seeds where on line do you buy. Had some bad luck with Camelot seeds and looking for another place to order. Second question, are you able to save Camelot seeds from a good plant and use them next year. Thanks

Already did that in July. I cut the mother plants down to about a foot tall, and used all the tops to make new plants. I didn't root them in water, but I just put roottone on them and put them directly into the soil. They are some happy little campers right now, and the mother plants are more vibrant that they were in the spring and early summer and are already producing .

Hoping your friends and family aren't going to be effected by the Dorian hurricane. Take care out there.

When you took the suckers off and put them into the water was there any nutrients added to that water?

You sound like you're from my neck of the woods, Coastal SC. Looks like the Eastern coast might not be getting the brunt of Hurricane Dorian. Still praying. By the way, thank you for the info. I had no idea you could root tomato cuttings!!!!

Yeah this is what I did but I just cut and stick in the ground and water. Turned 5 plants into 15.

For a new hydroponic gardener, what size nutrients(masterblend,epsom,calcium nitrate) would you suggest buying? Thanks for sharing

Interesting

Bobby, how do I get in touch with you? I'm having a Dutch bucket problem (maybe not). Something strange covering the surface of my perlite in my buckets (they're covered).

If you don't mind me asking what do you do for a living because you have a massive garden and I have a massive garden and I'm retired

I honestly think the suckers do better than the parent plant! All of my suckers I rooted and put in either Dutch buckets or Kratky containers. Very few bugs and the normal fungal problems weren't nearly as bad.

I have suckers growing off the end of the fruiting stems, is that normal?

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HELLO GOOD SEEING YOU . SORRY TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE CAJUN GARDNER. THAT WAS A NICE THING YOU DID ABOUT HIS PASSING . I WOULD LOVE GET HIS DVDS .IF YOU KNOW OF ANYWAY I COULD PURCHASE THEM FROM THE FAMILY JUST IN CASE HIS VIDIOS ARE TAKEN DOWN. HOWS THE FORD TRACTOR .HAD ONE MYSELF SORRY I HAD TO SELL IT. THANKS FOR POSTING WHAT YOU DO AS WELL .

what do you do with the extra food?

Hello just subscribe ,love it love to eat them

Use mulch like ruth stout or back to eden and you wont have to water and fertilize

Cool new intro. Like it. I think I know what you mean by suckers, but please confirm. Sorry for a nitwit question.

I just tried this with 5 suckers. I put one sucker in dirt and 4 others in 2 jars ( 2 per jar). All died except one in one of the jars. How is it that two suckers are put in a jar and one dies and the other doesn't when the conditions were identical? Same water, same temperature, same amount of light and darkness. It doesn't add up.

Hello mhp gardener, I'm trying to step out of my comfort zone and try to grow tomatoes in my greenhouse using the Dutch bucket system. My concern is that using a recirculation system usually involves a lot of pH and EC adjustment, and I seen your tomatoes are looking so great and I would like to know how you did that using a recirculation system. Did you constantly adjust the pH and do nutrient dumping like many traditional hydroponic growers say or did you do things differently. Please let me know what did to make your system so successful. Please and thank you.

mhpgardener, what is "Master Blend"?

Can you take cuttings from determinate tomatoes to grow indoors?

Compared to my soil ( Piedmont region Virginia ) your soil looks very sandy and water draining. Here we have a 4 inch layer of heavy soil on top of a lot of red clay and rocks. It can be difficult to grow tomatoes like that here !

First, thank you for all your videos! I have learned quite a bit from you (I’m a newbie). May I ask a question? Down in the USA you guys can just order the classic Masterblend 4-18-38 tomato nutrient blend, the calcium, and the magnesium. Amazon.com even sells them as a kit. But up here in Canada, Masterblend is nowhere to be found. The calcium is also hard to find. Do you know how I might calculate and mix my own “Masterblend” equivalent using chemicals that I can buy up here? What would you do if you were in my shoes? Thank you.

love u

You better live were it is 90 degrees in the fall!

Where do you live? And what fertilizers are you talking about? Organic?

Hi MHP, What do you do to the black bugs that eat your beans??????? Thanks

Hey Bobby anyone hear from Brock Hughes?

Hi. How have you been? :)

MHP your toms look almost blight free. What is your secret?

Organic good good

You don't even need that, just stick them in good dirt. True that they will be a bit slow, but they will fruit.

Are you using any root hormones in water? For root growth

What variety and are they determinate or indeterminate?

1 more video away from 33 million views 😉

Hey can you do a vid on how you get rid of harmfull insects. The aphids and white flies

So, ecen after years of gardening your soil looks pretty much like clay. Do you compost (and apply that compost to the garden)? Do you have some soil tests that you could discuss with us? Is it just the climate that causes organisms to eat all the organic matter out of the soil? Have you ever considered biochar?

If i had that many plants id have quadruple the HornWorms. 😤

Please tell Susan I’m n luv with her husband;) What is that master blend stuff?

How much kgs can u harvest from your dutch bucket system{tomatoes}