Re: Grafted tomatoes

**M* S* <m*@gmail.com>**

Yes, and Johnny's sells some appropriate correct cultivars for the
rootstocks. You do it by placing the two pots (4" if you want good plants)
adjacent to each other. One of the pots contains the rootstock, the other
the cultivar for the top growth. When the plants are about four or five
inches tall, you graft them together, using clips that are readily available
from a lot of suppliers you can find on the web. I have left the top growth
on the rootstock until I saw that the new top growth had taken, but that may
not be the "correct" way to do it. I did it so that I wouldn't lose the
plant if the graft didn't take. But the graft usually DOES take--these are
tomatoes, after all.

Miranda

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:28 AM, <frielster@aol.com> wrote:

>
> I've not seen it done so I'm not really up on how much work it is;
> obviously, more than buying market packs of Big Boy. Apparently it's done in
> much the same way, and for the same reasons, as grafting fruit trees or
> roses. You have to grow a disease-resistant rootstock, then cut away most of
> the top and graft on the disease-prone variety. The commercial growers who
> have tried it, in tunnels and outdoors, report tremendous yield increases.
>
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