Grafted tomatoes?

[mrbadexample]

Hello all.

Just been to visit Mr & Mrs badexample snr. Gave my dad a couple of tomato plants - he gave me better ones.

They're grafted tomatoes:



One each of Elegance, Conchita and Dasher.

If anyone has any experience of these, I'd appreciate your thoughts.

Cheers,
MBE

[Potstubsdustbins]

A friend of my gave me a grafted tom last year, I have no idea what variety.

I was prepared to be not impressed so just stuck it in a Morrisons bucket in the GH.

Mistake number one it went ballistic I eventually stopped it at truss 8, because of the size of the pot I had to water 3 times a day every day. The crop was enormous to the extent that I had to provide extra support for each individual truss something I learnt after the first truss broke away from the stem under the weight of the fruit.

Hope this helps Colin

[mrbadexample]

One of my main worries is that it won't fit in my greenhouse! It's only 4' high at the eaves, and just about 6'6" to the apex. I'm half-tempted to try them outside.

[Potstubsdustbins]

The one I grew went 5ft up a cane and I then fitted a poly rope along the eves of the GH and tied it to that I also hung mesh bags of the rope to support the truss's.

Colin

[fiskies]

I had Conchita last year and it went nuts and provided tonnes of fruit, they're great and I've got some plants going this year from saved seeds and they're doing just as well.

[Arthur Pounder]

Are they from Dobies? I was looking at these and they do a pack of three of the same varieties.

I usually have no grief with tomatoes but this year I have a mass of 4" seedlings that don't seem to want to progress.

[chris]

They'll be mote vigorous, as thats one of the points of grafting it.. Also it'll have to some extentent more tolerance of disease, and varying conditions.

As colin says - they'll no doubt need supporting well

[maljackson]

I bought a mixed pack of five grafted plants.

This morning I discovered one of them keeled over, bent at just below where the roots are grafted to the stem. I have them in big pots with a cane for support, but I hadn't got round to tying them to the canes.

So my advice would be to tie them to your supports before they get about a foot tall.
Mal.

[mrbadexample]

Are they from Dobies? I was looking at these and they do a pack of three of the same varieties.

Suttons. Same deal though I think.

So my advice would be to tie them to your supports before they get about a foot tall.
Mal.

Thanks for the heads up - they've got no support at all yet!

[Two_Sheds]

I've just applied for some grafted toms for school (The Sun were giving them away I think, but I got mine via an RHS Schools promo)

[mrbadexample]

I don't think they're very good. I've had them three days and I haven't got any tomatoes yet.

[chris]

You have plugged them in, and turned the switch on haven't you?

[mrbadexample]

You have plugged them in, and turned the switch on haven't you?

I can't. There's no power in the greenhouse.

[pinns]

I had a Conchita grafted tom last year I got in B&Q (with a Suttons "Turbo Veg" label on). Not tried the other two, sorry.

I put it outside in the soil, no special treatment, and same story as others here, it just took off! Got about 8 or nine feet long I reckon, by this time it was growing sideways. Needed a whole wigwam of support canes, fell over under it's own weight a couple of times, and just kept going!! Flavour was nice, sweet and tangy as tomatoes should be and still lots of green toms after the season was over for chutney.

You've made me want to get one again - M U S T - R E S I S T - !!!

[mrbadexample]

The more I hear of these, the more I think that my greenhouse is going to be hopelessly inadequate.