Grafted Tomatoes

 



I got a Sutton's catalogue yesterday and they are advertising same.

http://www.suttons.co.uk/Shop/Vegetable+Plants/Tomato+Turbo+Dasher+Plants+252201.htm?sku%2201

I am interested as an experiment - they are 3 quid plus a root - so
not cheap.

Does anyone have any experience of them?

 

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The blurb includes :--

"Get a bumber crop of tasty fruit with our Turbo Tomatoes"

Is that an incentive?


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"JMS" wrote ...

http://www.suttons.co.uk/Shop/Vegetable+Plants/Tomato+Turbo+Dasher+Plants+252201.htm?sku%2201

All the commercial tomato growers have.

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Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

 

JMS wrote:

http://www.suttons.co.uk/Shop/Vegetable+Plants/Tomato+Turbo+Dasher+Plants+252201.htm?sku%2201

Yes, in the sense of just grafted, no in the sense of commercial
plants.

I nipped out the usual laterals from the stem/leaf joint and grafted
some into potatoes with the idea of getting two crops from one stand.
Not a success that way, but grafting the same cuttings onto the emerging
stems did work.

However, when trying thi, do be careful - I've friends in the local
(Norfolk) plant-breeding establishment who both specialise in Solanum,
and similar experiments have taken place there, or maybe in colleagues'
gardens.

Graft a tomato onto a poisonous solanum's rootstock (belladonna was
tried...) and the fruit will be poisonous.

Well, the ones they tested were, so I'm not going down that road innit.

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Rusty