Willus' Indoor Fall-Winter-Spring Grow Log (Season 2012-13)

[z_willus_d]

After great difficulty and little success through last year's indoor New Dwarf winter grow season, I'm back at it again this year. I was plagued by various systemic and foliage diseases and the end result was very little and very mealy fruit. This year I'm going at it with some new weapons in my arsenal. First, I'm working with Marla (Mlm1 TV member) to try and graft my new dwarf seedlings onto hardy, disease resistant root-stock (Maxifort and Beaufort). Who know if this process will be successful itself and what effect the Root-stock might have on the dwarfishness of the scion material. This is really a trial for next Summer season where I intend to graft my tomato plants entire. I'll also be using dwarf varieties (Perth's Pride, Yukon Quest, and Iditarod) that I grew out this summer and to quite a bit more success than the varieties I attempted last winter season (Rosella's Purple, Summertime Green/Gold, Beryl Beauty, Wild Fred, etc.)

I've posted a few pics here of my RS and dwarf scion (three to the larger 6" pots). This is just an initial post, and I intend to post more as the grafting experiments proceed.
-naysen

Links to last year's Indoor grow posts:
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=21328
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=21361
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=20548