>>1699910Just lean a branch over and bury part of it like this. You can let all the bottom 4-6 suckers to grow into branches where you can do this then splay them out like a star from the central stalk; or whatever pattern you need to use for your garden. Only instead of cutting them off later on, like you normally would when making a cutting, you just leave them and train each as a new plant right where it is. You'll need to take care of air flow between the stalks to prevent blight issues. They will grow strong roots and increase the overall yield of the single tomato plant.
You may find that you would like to move those plants further away, so when they do root well you can just cut them from that original stalk and relocate them. When I want extra tomato plants from cuttings, I don't use this method. Instead I wait until the suckers are 4-6 inches long, snap them off the plant, and root them in soil as normal cuttings without layering them.
