The easiest potted fruit to grow, it survives from cuttings alone, perfect for both indoor decoration and eating

Introduction

Potted green plants are essential decorative touches for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and lifts your mood. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1214" introduces you to a fruit that can be grown in pots.

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When growing in pots, it is better to grow fruit than flowers and plants, since you get both the ornamental value and the fruit to eat, achieving several goals at once. Many fruits can be grown on a balcony, such as strawberries, figs and passion fruit. The fruit introduced today is one everyone has surely eaten: cherry tomato, usually called little tomato. It is not only easy to grow and quick to fruit, but also very easy to give a "bumper harvest", bearing an abundance of fruit.

Little Tomato Tree

The little tomato, formally called "cherry tomato", is a herbaceous plant of the genus Solanum in the nightshade family. It has a somewhat vining habit and can grow to two meters tall. It was improved from the original tomato variety. Its fruit is small, about the size of a pigeon egg, and comes in red, yellow, green and other colors, weighing 10-30 grams. You can eat one in a single bite. It is delicious with a good texture, tastier than the large tomatoes used as vegetables, and also highly nutritious.

Potted Little Tomatoes

The little tomato has a well-developed root system with many lateral roots, and the plant grows vigorously, making it one of the easiest fruit plants to keep alive. It can generally be propagated by seed or stem cuttings, and it has strong regenerative ability. Most of its roots are distributed within the top 30 cm of soil, so a flower pot of ordinary size is enough to grow it. A loam or sandy loam soil that drains and irrigates easily and is loose and fertile is best. It has strong adaptability.

It Can Also Be Grown Indoors

The little tomato has strong adaptability to its environment and is quite shade-tolerant, so it can also grow indoors. However, if there is not enough light, it easily grows leggy, producing only stems without flowering or fruiting. If grown indoors, it is best placed on a balcony, terrace or other spot where sunlight can reach it. Daily care and management are also very easy; you can treat it like an ordinary green plant. Water thoroughly once the potting soil dries out, and apply light fertilizer frequently, such as a nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium compound fertilizer. Sufficient nutrients are a necessary condition for fruiting.

Self-Sufficient

It should be pointed out that the little tomato comes from tropical regions and is not cold-tolerant. In the northern regions of our country, it is best not to grow it outdoors, as it cannot survive the winter. If you want it to overwinter outdoors, you can take cuttings in advance before winter arrives as a backup; the survival rate of cuttings is extremely high. You can also collect seeds well when the fruit ripens and sow them again the following year. Fruit you grow yourself tastes better than what you buy outside, purely natural and pollution-free, self-sufficient and well-fed. Gardeners with the right conditions at home can give it a try.