Tomato Grafting Attempts

[riceke]

B54Red you stalking up on the seeds from that fluke?

[Delerium]

Ooops.. i forgot to update my Grafting Progress but here is where i planted some of my Grafting successes.

[b54red]

Originally Posted by riceke

B54Red you stalking up on the seeds from that fluke?

I grafted a bunch of scions of different varieties onto the fluke rootstock the last two weeks of February. I only had fair success due to the cold moving in and the healing chambers on my unheated porch. I still got over 50 successful grafts from them. I'm still waiting on about a dozen more to see if they will make it. I killed a half dozen today taking them outside before I realized how hard the wind was blowing and before I could get the trays back inside it was too late for some of them. They broke at the graft.

Since I don't know how good the fluke rootstock will hold up once transplanted I am planning on putting them fairly close together and keeping most of them to a single stem. That way if they are a bust I won't be using quite so much of my garden on this experiment. I will also be giving a lot of them away for others to try.

I have Amelia and Multifort seed planted and will be grafting them when they are large enough. They probably won't be ready to hit the garden til late April or early May. That is about the time that fusarium really gets going in my beds so it will be a good test of how well this grafting works to help solve my worst gardening problem.

Bill