Triple Variety Tomato Graft Experiment

[Delerium]

Pretty Happy about how this turned out. Out of the 3 varieties 2 varieties have already set tomatoes. Still waiting on the Brandywine graft to set but I am sure we will get a few before the end of the season. 2 Potato Leaf varieties with 1 regular leaf. I have about 14 grafted plants all doing excellent.

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Delerium

Pretty Happy about how this turned out. Out of the 3 varieties 2 varieties have already set tomatoes. Still waiting on the Brandywine graft to set but I am sure we will get a few before the end of the season. 2 Potato Leaf varieties with 1 regular leaf. I have about 14 grafted plants all doing excellent.

Very strange, and intriguing!
Andrey was describing an apple tree with 4 apple grafts and a pear on it in his think of a business thread, this is neat to do it with tomatoes. Clever. I think you have bragging rights here.


Marsha

[Tracydr]

Originally Posted by ginger2778

Very strange, and intriguing!
Andrey was describing an apple tree with 4 apple grafts and a pear on it in his think of a business thread, this is neat to do it with tomatoes. Clever. I think you have bragging rights here.


Marsha

I used to have an apple tree with two varieties. Golden delicious and some sort of tart,red, maybe Macintosh. I loved it! In July we had tons of fresh eating apples and in September we had cooking apples to freeze.

[livinonfaith]

Oh, come on Delerium! You're making all the rest of us single variety grafters look bad! (Especially since a lot of us struggled to get even the single ones going!)

(But it is pretty darn cool!)

[Delerium]

This was the grafting experiment based on (*what i call branch grafting*) the friendly bet with Redbaron who was skeptic about this working out. He has been awful quiet lately (just teasing RB). So far.. I feel like I am winning the bet *smiles*

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by Delerium

This was the grafting experiment based on (*what i call branch grafting*) the friendly bet with Redbaron who was skeptic about this working out. He has been awful quiet lately (just teasing RB). So far.. I feel like I am winning the bet *smiles*

hmmmm It better be good Home-Made ketchup!eat crow.jpg

[Delerium]

Originally Posted by Redbaron

hmmmm It better be good Home-Made ketchup!Attachment 37583

lol. You mean like this? 2nd Jar is Ketchup

[Delerium]

Picture 1 & 2 - Macro Bin - Dual Variety Tomato Grafts
Picture 3 - Branch Graft on to Beaufort (Potato Leaf / Regular Leaf)
Picture 4 - Not impressed with Maxifort and Multifort. Beaufort is in the lead compared to the other 2 graft types.

[Delerium]

Originally Posted by livinonfaith

Oh, come on Delerium! You're making all the rest of us single variety grafters look bad! (Especially since a lot of us struggled to get even the single ones going!)

(But it is pretty darn cool!)

Nah Nah! More like teasing than trying to make anyone look bad lol!

[livinonfaith]

Originally Posted by Delerium

Nah Nah! More like teasing than trying to make anyone look bad lol!

Oh, I know! Just teasing you back.

Hey, people like you keep us on our toes and trying to do our best!

[Delerium]

Originally Posted by livinonfaith

Oh, I know! Just teasing you back.

Hey, people like you keep us on our toes and trying to do our best!

Growing Tomatoes will never get Dull or Boring that's for sure. My goal for next year is to grow 3 variety grafts for every plant in my growing space. Right now I am trying to decide which varieties i want on the same plant (trying to do different colors, sizes, shapes on the same plant). It's going to be lots of fun & totally cool! For eg Black Cherry, Sungold and Red Velvet on the same plant would be a sight to see..
Imagination going wild! =)

[gardenfrog]

Did you know you can graft a tomato onto a tobacco plant?! It's true, but I wouldn't want to risk my life by eating the fruit (Ha!). : )

[Salsacharley]

Dude! (or is it Dudette)!

You're making the Christmas tree I was referring to a couple of months ago (only I was contemplating cherry plants).

Well done!

Charley

[Delerium]

It's a Father Daughter Team effort

The brains behind the Tomato Grafting Project

[Delerium]

Originally Posted by Salsacharley

Dude! (or is it Dudette)!

You're making the Christmas tree I was referring to a couple of months ago (only I was contemplating cherry plants).

Well done!

Charley

Yeah... The Christmas Tree plans are for 2014 garden. This was more of a Trial Run to see if it was going to work or not. Still have a few months to see how these triple variety plants workout. I will update here till the end of the season. Now i have a pretty decent idea of what root stocks i wanna use again. Grafting just added a whole new level of fun!