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Old September 9, 2017   #1
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Default Tomato ketchup and fries

We went to WI Milaeger's Tomatomania today. Tasted over 110 varieties of tomatoes, probably half hybrids and half heirlooms.
Tomato Ketchup and fries was delish. Sweet, more currant than cherry. Started looking it up and it is a graft tomato on potato....
Question which variety are they grafting and is it possibly to buy it separately as a seed?
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Old September 10, 2017   #2
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I'm not sure if that tomato is known. Or what they found worked
well for grafting. Not sure but I think the grafted plants are only
available as purchased plants.
It was first introduced in the mid 90's I think in England and still
expensive, a novelty, at 10-25 dollars per plant. Probably because
they may have low grafting rates or it is just difficult or so odd,
often selling out, they get the high prices. Just a guess.

I've not tasted the tomato, but the only one I've grown that
sounds similarly described is RemyRouge. An indeterminate very
small cherry, almost currant, that has a very tomatoey intense
flavor. Almost like tomato paste. Mine has been growing in near
multiflora dense clusters, 25-35 per. Long season producing.
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Thanks much! It worth trying!
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Old September 11, 2017   #4
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Tomato ketchup Has a lot of ingredients in it as flavoring that one cannot tell what tomato it is made from.

Grafting does NOT change the tomato genetics. It is only done for soil borne disease resistance. But it can also add vigor because of its bigger root system.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=ketc...&bih=824&dpr=1

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so it is a marketing strategy perhaps, that name of tomato is not released separately and one has to buy whole grafted plant to get those tomatoes...
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Gardeneer, "Tomato Ketchup & Fries" is a tomato plant, grafted onto potato roots. Novelty plant, but apparently a good tasting tomato. As you say, grafting doesn't change the genetics, so one could buy the grafted plant and save seeds, assuming they're OP.

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