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efisakov · February 19, 2015

I do have some of my tomato plants getting diseases every year. Not only that but bugs and animals or birds getting some of my plants. Luckily, I get enough for us and friends and family as well. So, I am not too desperate to do horizontal grafting.

Delerium had mentioned verticals graft in his posts, which I tried last year with 3 tomatoes combined. I cut the roots off and made elongated cut on all 3 stems. Bound them up together with super thing wire and placed in a glass with water (nothing added). In a few days roots grew to a reasonable size and I planted the triple in a container. It was among the last group going in to the ground. That triple plant grew fine until Cherokee Chocolate (one of the 3) overtook the rest. I picked 505.1 ounces of CC from it, the other two varieties just did not produce much. I am planning to try more vertical grafts this year. Want to see which varieties will go together fine and produce more evenly.

My none-grafted CC gave me 192 ounces of tomatoes from a single plant.

February 19, 2015	#35
efisakov Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: NJ, zone 7 Posts: 3,162	I do have some of my tomato plants getting diseases every year. Not only that but bugs and animals or birds getting some of my plants. Luckily, I get enough for us and friends and family as well. So, I am not too desperate to do horizontal grafting. Delerium had mentioned verticals graft in his posts, which I tried last year with 3 tomatoes combined. I cut the roots off and made elongated cut on all 3 stems. Bound them up together with super thing wire and placed in a glass with water (nothing added). In a few days roots grew to a reasonable size and I planted the triple in a container. It was among the last group going in to the ground. That triple plant grew fine until Cherokee Chocolate (one of the 3) overtook the rest. I picked 505.1 ounces of CC from it, the other two varieties just did not produce much. I am planning to try more vertical grafts this year. Want to see which varieties will go together fine and produce more evenly. My none-grafted CC gave me 192 ounces of tomatoes from a single plant. __________________ Ella God comes along and says, "I think I'm going to create THE tomato!”