Anyone tried grafted toms

[bridget mc laughlin]

Has anyone tried using grafted tomato's, is there any special requirements they have ,A friend told me they can be quite big

[Paulottie]

You mean grafting onto potato roots?

[maypril]

I think he means the ones you can buy where the supplier chooses a strong tomato rootstock and grafts on another type of tomato.

There is a thread from last year about grafted tomato plants.

[womble]

There must be something in it, as I heard the other day that most of the commercial crop grown is grafted.
All tomatoes will get as big as you want them to, they just grow and grow.

[Alison]

Not likely to try them, they cost a lot and I like to grow a lot of toms which I just grow from seed in the normal manner, much cheaper and no problems.

[dave_norm_smith]

Hi

I've tried them and they were good. A friend of mine would drop me by half a dozen each year where i used to work. They tended to be stronger and fruited earlier than any of the ones I grew so I could have tomatoes for a longer period. Not sure how much choice you would get with variety though?

Grab a couple and give them a go!

Dave

[bridget mc laughlin]

I think I will try a couple to see how they do , I might stick with the normal ones

[John B]

Hi, I first started growing Grafted tomatoes about 20 years ago in NZ. There were two 'makes' available - Supertoms and Austratoms - both came from Australia. Over there you could get all the popular varieties like 'Moneymaker' etc, but here you can get only limited varieties which I think are the ones grown commercially. I have been growing them here for three years (as soon as I found them available) in my polytunnel, and usually get at least 12 large trusses off each plant - sometimes as many as 150 to 200 fruit per plant, and that is normal size fruit, NOT the little Cherry ones, even the Beefsteak type produce 80 or more Large fruit - up to 10 4 oz fruit per truss. You do need to feed well and I usually feed with Dobies Tomato Feed twice a week once fruit starts to develop. I have not tried them outside here, though thats where they were grown in NZ, but if you have a tunnel or greenhouse they are well worth giving a go.

[T8Ter]

I'm trying one each of five varieties bought from Suttons, they look strong plants, although at the moment no stronger than some of my own grown, so it'll be interesting to see the yield/flavour compared to my own.

[ann-the-nan]

Anyone tried grafted toms

I grew them last year and was delighted with the results. They were bigger and nicer fruits. And, yes, they do GROW. The size of my gh lends itself to 3 trusses only. They do need a high roofed gh.

[gojiberry]

Cost puts me off as they were £3.50 each in the GC and as I have 20 plants on the go at the moment that would have been beyond my pocket money. I do believe that they are very vigorous and disease resistant so may be worth a couple of plants to grow outdoors. I read somewhere that the norm for grafted plants is about 7/8 trusses.

Ian