Saturday Open Thoughts

Main stem on your tomato plant?  No.  I've never grown them, but I doubt it.  Where did it break off?  IIRC, tomato stems are hairy: and each of those hairs is capable of setting out roots.  It's part of what makes certain plants (like the mint family) so prolific.

Tomatoes, btw, are NOT annuals in their native environment.  They are perennials (or so I've read).  So if it's only partly broken, I would try to air-root it.  Stick some moist peat moss into and around the break, cover up the area with plastic wrap...wow, I haven't done this since college, but I think I taped or tied the plastic wrap to keep it fairly tight around the cut (I did this deliberately on a house plant, several times, with good results) and wait for the roots to grow.  With any luck the tomatoes will get sufficient nutrients through the unbroken part of the stem.  B/c they're tomatoes and outside, maybe you should use twine to affix the Saran.  Once the roots start to show, cut off the main stem and replant it in your garden.  It will need to be staked, of course, until the roots really take hold.

If there are branches below the break, those tomatoes should do fine, I think.

Sorry, Alma.  That's the best I can think of.  I don't even know how to Google for that kind of advice.  And as I said, I've never grown tomatoes, so take my advice with some salt.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

if your tomato stem has many splits or even one very long split cut it off. take the cut off piece, strip the leaves off the bottom 2 ft of stem & plant it in good rich dirt. keep it evenly moist. very soon it will put out roots & grow another plant.
if you have a sunny window plant your tomato stem in a 3 or 5 gal. bucket & you can bring it inside & have fresh tomatoes this winter.

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hope your Lala gets to feeling better very soon!

"Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,
how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man?"
~The Patrician in 'Snuff' by Terry Pratchett

I hope she feels better soon, and can eat her hay again.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White  

I'm glad you didn't take the position.  While it might have been interesting to see, I think it would drive a sane person insane working with them.

Oh, trying to get things "evenly moist" is the hardest part of learning how to do greenhouse watering.  Trust me on this one.

Best of luck.  I suspect Ria is more of an expert than I am on the subject of tomato plants.  ;-D

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White