"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
...
> Paul M. Cook wrote:
>> While cleaning out my tomato pots and trimming my plants I noticed my
>> yellow pear had 2 main branches of 4 that had broken spots. It
>> looked like the branch had been twisted like a dish rag aka wrung
>> out. The leaves were still alive but the breaks did not look good.
>> It looked like the plant had tried to grow downward against the
>> tomato stakes trying to make them grow upwards. The breaks were
>> brownish looking and seemed really week. I went ahead and cut them
>> off losing 1/3 of my plant in the process and most of my young
>> tomatoes.
>
> Do you think that planting the broken stem (after a fresh cut) would
> save it? Lay the first foot or so in soil? Just a thought.


Too late unfortunately. Oh well, I guess I just get fewer tomatoes. My
celebrity are doing really well at least.

Paul