It will not root in water. You can try making fresh wounds and dipping root hormone powder, but I think that branch is too big for that even.

Don't chop off the broken stems, they are supporting your new branches (suckers.) Are the tomatoes indeterminate? If so they won't suffer any real damage from the "pruning" you did. In fact some growers prune indeterminate tomatoes to keep them manageable. (I don't, and many others don't either, it is one of the "Great tomato debates.") It is usually not a good idea to prune determinates since they stop growing when fruit sets on the terminal or top bud. If you prune them, you will probably be removing the ends where they set fruit. Clear as mud? Bets Here is a link that might be useful: FAQ on

I have no trouble rooting the Greggii's, Sylvia, by the usual method of just sticking them in potting soil in a shady area and keeping moist. If it is really woody, might want to use a little root hormone.

No, not the peat or paper degradable pots thought I wish I could find those locally. They are in typical planter pots between 2 and 3 gallon sized, with the bigger roses in the bigger pots. There are 2 Harlow Carr that were shipped bareroot with bigger but trimmed roots so nothing to hold the soil yet. The Spring Hill Rainbow sale collection of 5, again shipped bareroot and no little roots yet- Pumpkin Patch Ch-Ching Cupid's Kiss Violet's Pride Take it Easy. The remaining ones were body bags I picked up on clearance and those had longer more developed roots with little white rootlets staring, enough to hold on to the body bag material quite well, which I soaked off gently. Those are: Cl America Therese Bugnet CL Don Juan 2 Knockouts. I used a mixture of potting soils: MG and Dr Earth Organic. Normally I would mix in some native soil when putting in a pot to eventually go in the ground, but I'm on red clay soil now and when it's wet one can forget working with it in any way, shape, or form. I have gardened in clay and shale before so at least that is nothing new. Anyway, I'm afraid if I try to plant them too soon there will be no/not enough little roots to hold any root ball and the stress might be too much for them. Moses, do you mind if I ask what general area of PA you are? Though I'm not from PA originally, I recently moved from Western PA. Thankfully I was able to pot up a good amount of plants, roses, and fruit trees to bring down with me. It's been quite an adjustment to gardening down here but my Zephy Drouhins were so happy they stayed green and in leaf all winter, however now I need to be mindful of the heat and humidity all summer long. Up there I felt comfortable potting something in late April or May and putting it in the ground in July, but here I'm just not sure. Thank you Seil, it's comforting to know that if there is good root development they will handle the heat ok at the time of planting.