Tomato!

[Nwaite]

Thought you guys might like this...

It's a cherry tomato plant. 2 years old ( not east to do in maine) . It still bears little orange tomatoes. An it's about a foot high.

Did look better but it got hit with frost last week. But no worries new leaves are already coming on strong.

 

[Nwaite]

Wow I really thought some one would be like wow that wacky and wild!... nope I gesso not.

 

[Djtommy]

Wow I really thought some one would be like wow that wacky and wild!... nope I gesso not.

Maybe that's because it looks like a stick in a pot.

 

[JoeR]

You should grow another one except put tons of twists and stuff in the trunk like a shimpaku would have. Would be interesting.

Defoliated it huh?

 

[sorce]

Tomato, tomahto....

To not, oh!

Dude got a pepper too! Bonsai salsa!

Sorce

 

[Nwaite]

Maybe that's because it looks like a stick in a pot.

You look like a stick in a pot!

 

[Paradox]

Yeah no offense, it doesnt really look like a great bonsai. However kudos on keeping it alive for 2 years. I had no idea they would live that long.

 

[Nwaite]

No offense. .. It does look shitty right now .... do to the frost. I'll put another pic up in a week or so when the leave come back.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Indeterminate tomato types are perenial, though not a long lived perenial. The stems get woody, but it is not true wood. As much as possible I would use clip and grow techniques. If you use wire, wire branches before they get woody. branches can be brittle.
Like bonsai peppers, tomatoes are difficukt to make into convincing tree images.
To keep them growing, protect them from temperatures below 45F. Full sun for as much of the year as possible.

you might be able to salvage this tree, branches that shoot straight up from a trunk or banch should be cut off, only keep branches that shoot from the sides. prune this one hard in spring after it has started growing vigorously again.

Set up a pattern of letting grow out 6 or 8 nodes then cutting back to one or two nodes. It should produce at least 2 branches at the end node, This will prevent it from fruiting, but a year or two of this is needed to get enough branching to have some choices in style.

 

[Nwaite]

Wow. Thank you very much... that's the most info iv ever read on a bonsai tomoto plant. Thanks!

 

[M. Frary]

Probably the only onto on tomatoes called bonsai. It's not truly bonsai until there is a tree involved.

 

[Nwaite]

Probably the only onto on tomatoes called bonsai. It's not truly bonsai until there is a tree involved.

Not sure if that's true....( and please don't take that as me saying it in a snooty way) but I have seen meany "bonsai's" that are not really trees ... shrubs... I don't know. I thought the word bonsai ment minichar right?

 

[M. Frary]

Bonsai means tray tree.
Some are shrubs yes. Such as quince.
I've seen cannibis "bonsai" also.
It looked cool too.
But it also wasn't a tree.
And who am I to say what you do is wrong?

 

[Nwaite]

Right on man riiight on! And thanks I didn't realize that's what it ment

 

[GrimLore]

I'll put another pic up in a week or so when the leave come back.

Update pic!

Grimmy

 

[Nwaite]

A@ah hhh sorry no can do... I forgot it out side and a frost hit it ... sad day for me...

 

[sorce]

I hacked mine down yesterday!

Clearing up the wintering grounds!

It was only a tomato!
A TOMATO!

LOL

Sorce

 

[GrimLore]

sad day for me...

Damn! I was really curious when you said two years, enough so that I was going to try to Winter a Yellow Pear Cherry Tomato that was growing here. I forgot all about it and 1 hard frost killed it before I got to take care of it. I will "play" with one next year though as it may never be a great Bonsai it fascinates me enough to try growing it for more then one season.

Grimmy

 

[Nwaite]

In some places they will just keep going spreading across the ground.
The greenhouse I worked at for years only grow tomatoes. .. they would get 60 to 70 " long before they took them out for the new crop.

 

[thegrower]

Great to see. I stumbled across a book in barnes and noble this past weekend. Do not remember the exact title but it was all about edible bonsai. Was thinking about trying a hot pepper myself. Saw a few pics of some that were several years old.