Early June and garden is going down fast.

b54red · June 17, 2013

Chris those pictures are textbook early fusarium symptoms. I see it every year but this year it was very late showing up because I only planted grafted plants with at least some resistance to fusarium in the rootstock. The ones that were grafted onto rootstock that were resistant to all three races of fusarium are doing much better than the others so I must have all three races in my garden and it wouldn't surprise me if there were others as well.

I'm really enjoying having heirlooms last nearly as long as the highly resistant hybrids with the benefit of much better flavor. I suggest you start practicing grafting this fall on some cheap rootstock and see if you can get good enough at it so that when you get involved with the expensive rootstock you won't destroy so many with mistakes like I did. It's also a lot of fun.

Bill

June 17, 2013	#15
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	Chris those pictures are textbook early fusarium symptoms. I see it every year but this year it was very late showing up because I only planted grafted plants with at least some resistance to fusarium in the rootstock. The ones that were grafted onto rootstock that were resistant to all three races of fusarium are doing much better than the others so I must have all three races in my garden and it wouldn't surprise me if there were others as well. I'm really enjoying having heirlooms last nearly as long as the highly resistant hybrids with the benefit of much better flavor. I suggest you start practicing grafting this fall on some cheap rootstock and see if you can get good enough at it so that when you get involved with the expensive rootstock you won't destroy so many with mistakes like I did. It's also a lot of fun. Bill