Salty Thumb wrote in message ...
I just got back looking at tomato plants at a garden center. Most of them
had little hard white downward pointing conical spikes growing in the lower
part of the stems. Further up the stem were were raised mounds of green
tissue that looked like they had not erupted yet. Does anybody know what
the spikes are and if they mean trouble or are pretty much natural? Some
of the varieties I looked that had spikes were Sun Gold, Better Boy, and
something with 3 letters followed by 444, i.e. --- 444.

Thanks for any help,

- Salty

Adventitious roots.
If you plant them sideways they will get a better start because they
will be in the warmer portion of soil. Might not matter in warmer
places.