Re: Grafting tomatoes
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  • Subject: Re: Grafting tomatoes
  • From: &* <d*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:05:37 -0500
This might interest you:
http://southeastfarmpress.com/vegetables/grafting-tomatoes-brings-better-yields-naturally
There's also a webinar on line - aimed at commercial growers, but suitable for others, on how to graft tomatoes. I can dig it up for you. Grafting isn't that hard. I've got a friend in Australia who's been grafting tomatoes since before I met him on-line in 93 or so.
Since you grow where you do, you probably wouldn't need grafted tomatoes. In our area, bacterial wilt is a serious concern some years. 

d
-----Original Message----- From: Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 412 CS/SCOSI 
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 1:33 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: [CHAT] Grafting tomatoes

It looks like it's aimed at the heirloom stuff. Heirloom vegs are the hot
thing now, but of course many of them don't have the same disease resistance
that's been bred into the hybrids. So they graft the heirloom onto disease
resistant rootstock, as is done for a lot of fruit trees.
But WHEW, they want like $7  or more for a plant.  If you grow two plants, I
guess that's okay. I put more like 15 in the ground.
We don't have many plant disease problems here in the high desert so I kinda
shrugged at it. I did notice that they claim it confers some resistance to
blossom end rot, which is an issue I get a lot with the paste tomatoes. If I
can find one of them that will ship to CA I might give it a try just to see
if it actually helps. I am naturally cynical so my first thought is that
this is more marketing than results, but you never know.

Cyndi


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of James Singer
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] Happy new year!

Grafting tomatoes kinda baffles me. I have an acquaintance who once was
touting tissue culture for figs. Mind, if you stick a fig branch in the
ground, it'll root. So I don't see the point of making a big project out of
something that's totally unnecessary.

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
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