Potato grafting

[StrongPlant]

Originally Posted by slugworth

Getting back to the original post;I am going to make the attempt next week.
I have lots of seed potatoes and tomato seedlings to play with.
I never had luck grafting tomatoes,so it should be interesting.

If you can,you should try out different solanum species as well.For example last year along with tomatoes I also grafted solanum nigrum on a few potatoes,and although the plants fused and the scieon grew quite a lot,it was very suspicable to insects and disease,presumably due to rootstock being an extra sugar sink,which the plant could not handle.Therefore I advise on using solanum species that are naturally herbacious perennials,that is,their roots are significant sugar sinks.This year I might try solanum dulcamara as scion and I'll report the results here.Sorry for a late reply,I am just getting activated on this forum again since it's spring in my area and tomatoes are being grown now.