It might root depending on how old it is but the odds are pretty much 99.9% that it won't produce any fruit even if it does. Fruit clusters aren't growing tips, they are terminal branch ends.

Good luck with the experiment.

Dave

I agree with Dave. You need a growth point to produce.

It finally sprouted some leaves after about 2 weeks and is growing like a weed. Put it in the garden the 1st of May. It has just started putting on fruit! It is way behind my other tomatoes, I hope it makes it!

Very cool experiment! Keep us posted!

You know, this thread just made me laugh. Despite everything we think we know about our beloved plants, they still manage to do things we never expected them to do....

How about posting a picture of it for us? Would love to see how it is doing.

Dave

Why is it hard to believe that they are putting on some fruit when the poster simpley "regenerated" a plant.

I love little science projects with plant parts !!! Way to go Wertach !!!! I hope you get some tomatoes !!!

would like you to post pics. thanks

Well, from my basic (very basic) botany knowledge from years ago....all tomatoes have meristamatic (botched that spelling!) tissue on the stems and leaves. You just need to bury a stem in decent soil and it can root....and grow, and flower. You'll just have a garden grown hybrid hothouse tomato.

Still no pic ,well I started my own vine on 6-13-11 so we will see what happens, I send an email today asking OP to please enlighten us with a picture .

Got the e-mail this morning. I will take a pic this afternoon when I get home and post it. I saw the other requests for a pic and I said to to self, "take pic when you get home". I wrote a note to myself after reading the e-mail, put it in my pocket. When I get home and change clothes, empty my pockets I will find it! I am getting old and forgetful!

It is looking kinda bad, not watered when I took the pic. I am working my way down the rows and watering now. It is on the last part of my row since I planted it later. 95 outside right now and no rain for a month. I'll try to get a pic when it is standing up. It will probably be this weekend, since I leave for work before daylight!

The original part is buried about a foot deep, I wish I had took a pic before planting it. It looked kinda like a bonsai, a little old woody branch with a green sprout about 4 inches high before I transplanted it in to a bigger pot. It was about 14 inches high when I put it in the garden.

And yes, before I'm asked, that is egg shells and coffee filters on top of the leaf mulch! I'm a messy gardener! No one sees it but me.

I'm finally getting ripe fruit, not as big as the store bought ones, but better taste. Not as good tasting as my other tomatoes by a long shot. A lot of BER, I'm not having that problem with my other tomatoes.

It looks great! Congrats on your work here.

T

Big congrats!

I'm curious about the size of these tomatoes since you said they are smaller than the store bought ones. I took some seeds from the same type of tomato and I have the plants in my garden. The tomatoes are all about the size of a cherry tomato. The plant is covered in fruit and extremely healthy so it's not struggling.

I think I would like to try this with camparis. So what do you do exactly, just put part in the soil and part out? Do you use any rooting hormone?

"So what do you do exactly, just put part in the soil and part out?" Yes

"Do you use any rooting hormone?" No

They were a little bigger than a golf ball.

I plant seed from store bought tomato. Some work out. Some don't. Some plants die along the way. Some have been pretty good. No controls or notes. Whatever seeds left on the cutting board, I toss in the yard. I always have tomato plants in various stages of growth. I get tomato all year round. Since I buy whatever is on sale, the fruit on the plant is always a surprise. Big, small, round, ridges, Romas. I get whatever happens to grow. I suspect that some fruit were hybrids, and by now, maybe have cross pollinated by bees. I don't know. I just eat whatever appears.