Experiment with suckers

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Dipped cuttings of tomato , egg plant , to see if it grows roots in water .
 

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Tomato cuttings will readily strike in damp soil/compost, and this has the advantage of giving much stronger roots than propagating in water, which makes them far easier to transplant.
AFAIK all vines will act like this; cucumbers certainly do.
Aubergines, being bushes, might be slightly more difficult, but should work.
One point: the plant gleaned will be clones, the same age as the original plant and will do what they can to catch up.
 
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Tomato cuttings will readily strike in damp soil/compost, and this has the advantage of giving much stronger roots than propagating in water, which makes them far easier to transplant.
AFAIK all vines will act like this; cucumbers certainly do.
Aubergines, being bushes, might be slightly more difficult, but should work.
One point: the plant gleaned will be clones, the same age as the original plant and will do what they can to catch up.
May be , in my observation roots become more dense then in soil , but can be adaptive to water more , in soil they may have different structure may b more firm ,so it can take few days in transformation , some people grow in only water successfully too in aquaponic systems

I think what ur saying , depends on humidity and temperature , here cuttings dont survive easily in warmer weather or dry wind , need to do alot for it to survive outside in soil amd ratio is less , in water no stems die , i have done another experiment planting under enclosed aquarium on soil for this reason , yes cutting has this benefit , it can save time in comparison with the seed and can have same variety of the mother plant . some times hybrid variety has different offspring from seedlings .
 

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