Post for Photos of Grafted Plants

[z_willus_d]

We have an enormous thread running about grafting here:
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=26079

Rather than continue to post my garden pictures of grafted tomato varieties to that thread, I thought it might be better to start a new thread in the Photo Gallery forum where folks involved with grafting can post pictures and provide updates on their progress in the garden with the grafted plants.

I'd love to see A-B comparisons of the same variety grafted vs. un-grafted. It would be nice to also get yield reports on the same. Diseases resistance; pest; etc... all tied back to photos and a log.

Here's my first contribution. Look forward to seeing yours.
Thanks,
-naysen

Pic1(IMAG0408)- This is a view of my Tainer/pot garden on the patio with the new raised/retaining-wall bed on top of my hillside in the background. That represents about one half of my tomato vines and garden.
Pic2(IMAG0401)- This shows what a great, productive tomato Brokenbar's Costoluto Genovese strain can be. Last year it started out great, though not quite this great, but later in the year it went down to pests and disease. So far, this grafted plant is performing excellent with many many 1/2/3" fruits on the way.
Pic3(IMAG0402)- Shows some of the fruit from my Pink Berkley Tie Dye vine. My experience in the past is that these tend to go down to black mold/fungus. I haven't seen that problem yet on this grafted plant. It's doing fairly well.
Pic4(IMAG0403)- Here we see the Spaghetti Squash that's taken over half the garden. In this case it's spreading through the grafted Dester plant, which is one of my worst vines in the garden. This Dester looks ok, and seems reasonably healthy and strong, but it hasn't put out many blossoms. Those that it has put out are somewhat malformed with little pollen, and as a consequence of all this, I've not managed to set a single fruit on this six foot vine.
Pic5/6(IMAG0404/405)- Here we have my un-grafted Green Zebra plant. This vine is going down fast to mold/fungus. It's not obvious from the picture, but over 50% of the foliage has dropped blackened by the moldy death. I seriously doubt this vine will manage to ripen all the fruit it's set, but I hope I'm wrong.
Pic7(IMAG0406)- Here's another un-grafted plant, a Brandywine red. BW Red is usually pretty hardy, but in this case it's succumb to the same mold/fungal problems as the un-grafted Green Zebra. I'm showing some of the fruit it set before the defoliation, but you can see in Pic8(IMAGE0507) that I'm already getting blossom end rot due to the stress on the plant. I should have grafted this one.
Pic9(IMAG0409)- On a brighter note, I've got my first blushing beefsteak in this 4" Vintage Wine tomato. There are plenty more from where that came, and despite some leaf necrosis on this grafted fine, I'm hopeful for a long, fruitful season.
Pic10(IMAG0410)- Here you can see the monstrosity that is my grafted Pruden's Purple (right) and Brandywine Sudduths (left).
Pic11(IMAG0411)- This is my grafted heshpole plant. It has a very strange growth pattern, with these lanky, enormous leaves. The fruit kind of looks like Wes, but it's so far less prolific in setting. The jury is going to remain out on this one until I can taste the tomatoes. If they don't beat Wes but are similar, I'll nix it in the future.
Pic12(IMAG0412)- Here's a very different looking (from Pics5/6) grafted Green Zebra vine. No signs of mold/fungus issues. It's setting fruit and doing quite well. I hope it stays that way.
Pic13(IMAG0413)- Showing some of the fruit on my enormous Wes plant (8' tall now). It's set a lot on the lower trusses, but the upper are just dropping dried up, thrips infested blossoms now. Pic14(IMAG0414) shows some of the dying leaves/branches that I haven't managed to figure out on the Wes.
Pic15(IMAG0415)- Another stellar plant is my grafted Goose Creek. It's set more beautiful tomatoes than any of my other vines. Last year was somewhat similar but then over half of them developed BER. I hope the added vigor of the Maxifort rootstock will enable this plant to ripen all of it's fruit w/out issue this season. Pic16(IMAG0416) shows an upward tilting view of this same uber vine.
Pic17(IMAGE017) is of my grafted Russo Sicilian Togetta. It was planted a couple weeks after the preceding plants, but it's setting fruit well (see pic18) and has no signs of disease yet.
Pic19(IMAG0419) shows an overhead of my grafted Brandywine from Croatia. It's doing about as well as the RST from above.
Pic20(IMAG0420) shows an overhead of one of 5 or 6 grafted KBX I'm growing. This is the only one to actually set fruit so far (see pic 21). I hope the other catch up.
Pic22(IMAG0426) is of one of my grafted Van Wert Ohio vines. It's really a stellar plant even un-grafted, so I'm not surprised to find this grafted vine to be setting plenty of fruit on all sorts of offshoots (see Pic23).
Pic24(IMAG0428) shows the fruit set from my grafted BW Cowlicks. The plants started off doing well, but it's got some kind of pest issue (maybe thrips). A number of vines in the general vicinity are suffering from similar issues.
Pic25(IMAG0430) shows one of two grafted Casino vines. I thought it was doing well (see fruit on pic26), but then I noticed the fruit on the next truss up was all BER'd - shoot! (pic27)
Pic28(IMAG0433) shows the behemoth that is my grafted Madam Jardell's Black. It's now larger and far more productive than it's un-grafted sibling. The un-grafted one is dying from mold/fungus, while this one is going to the sky. Check out some of the fruit set in Pics29/30 (IMAG0434/435). I've never tasted this fruit, and I hope it comes through in the taste department as much as it has in the vigor on vigor fruiting.