Now that all but two end of the year greenies have ripened indoors, I have my final stats for this year. Grafting has been a real game-changer!
If I don't count my very first year (2012) when my beds were first built and filled with purchased compost, this was my best year ever. I harvested more tomatoes from 20 plants than I did in year two (2013) from 34 plants. I had many varieties producing six-plus pounds per plant, with one Gregori's Altai pumping out over ten pounds.
My last pre-grafting year (2016), I was barely getting two pounds per plant, and eight plants went down to disease before producing a single tomato.
The best part is that I'm now revisiting varieties I had scratched off due to low production. They're doing great now as grafted plants. And I'm still happy with my chosen rootstock (now let's hope it's not discontinued...).
Thank you Bill and everyone else who has contributed to these annual grafting threads!
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