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I thought about playing around with grafting. I was thinking more in-line with grafting different types of similar tomatoes on to one stem. Red, white and blue cherry tomato.
I would look for similar maturity days and similar plant growth characteristics
I may even try grafting a tomato on top of a potato. I'll probably end up with worst of both worlds. Above and below.
Eric
I thought about playing around with grafting. I was thinking more in-line with grafting different types of similar tomatoes on to one stem. Red, white and blue cherry tomato.
I would look for similar maturity days and similar plant growth characteristics
I may even try grafting a tomato on top of a potato. I'll probably end up with worst of both worlds. Above and below.
Eric
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Jeff,I was reading something this weekend about a guy who grafted his tomatoes and potatoes together. He says he figured it was a "dual-purpose" plant and allowed him to utilize space in his garden more efficiently. But my thought was, wouldn't that cut down on the amount of energy the plant was able to devote to each product and leave you with either smaller potatoes and tomatoes or fewer of them? Or does it not work like that because they are only sharing a root system and not really the foliage? If the latter is true, then I suppose if the soil was rich enough to support the plants it wouldn't matter. But I have a feeling this is better in theory than in practice.
Any thoughts?
I hope you don't mind that I moved your post.
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Hi
As I've done some tomato grafting ive got a few hints that might help you if your not already aware of them (you may be)
If your growing both the root and main stock from seed ensure your start them off at the same time as the stems need to be nearly the same thickness.
I'd look into buying pre-grown rootstock, its just easier
Its a tricky attaching tomato stems together and be careful not to crush the stems to much. Also them plastic butterfly clips are great at holding the graft together as you can't really bind tomato grafts together the tissue is to soft.
Also Tomatos on Potatos are becoming more and more common and are just as easy to do, great if your tight on space. the Potato can grow in a large pot and can bet uplifted once the tomatos are finished.
Hope some of the helps
As I've done some tomato grafting ive got a few hints that might help you if your not already aware of them (you may be)
If your growing both the root and main stock from seed ensure your start them off at the same time as the stems need to be nearly the same thickness.
I'd look into buying pre-grown rootstock, its just easier
Its a tricky attaching tomato stems together and be careful not to crush the stems to much. Also them plastic butterfly clips are great at holding the graft together as you can't really bind tomato grafts together the tissue is to soft.
Also Tomatos on Potatos are becoming more and more common and are just as easy to do, great if your tight on space. the Potato can grow in a large pot and can bet uplifted once the tomatos are finished.
Hope some of the helps
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OK, now I'm curious -- what are recommended tomato-potato varieties for grafting? What traits do you look for?
- early maturing or late maturing potatoes? Tomatoes?
- from the way you described, determinate tomato variety should be better?
- are potato leaf Tomtoes more likely to succeed than regular leaf?
- I would suppose disease resistance
At what caliper do you graft potatoes and tomatoes? Potatoes plants shoots from seed potatoes would be way thicker than seedlings.
- early maturing or late maturing potatoes? Tomatoes?
- from the way you described, determinate tomato variety should be better?
- are potato leaf Tomtoes more likely to succeed than regular leaf?
- I would suppose disease resistance
At what caliper do you graft potatoes and tomatoes? Potatoes plants shoots from seed potatoes would be way thicker than seedlings.