Hi Delerium,
Yes, that does help. Thanks! BTW, I'm not a scientist either
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I don't want to hijack your thread, but I was getting some photos of my fall tomato beds ready to post and came across a couple photos of my triple (or "quadruple"?) grafts I did yesterday.
I used your no-root technique. One is on a grandeur stem section with 1 or 2 grandeur branches left on and grafts of nora pepper and ping-tung eggplant, with a carbon graft at the top. The other is goose creek as a rootstock (with a branch or two left on) and grafts of marvel stripe, vorlon, and purple dog creek.
Fingers crossed!!
Anne