Tomato Grafting: Overhyped "HACK" or Gardening Revelation? Let's Find Out.
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Curious about tomato grafting? In this video, we discuss whether tomato grafting is worth the effort for your garden. Tune in for a nerdy tomato talk!
We'll look at tomato grafting purported benefits like improved root strength, tomato production, tomato disease resistance, and more!
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Thank you so much! I am a total beginner in gardening and your videos are very helpful. Keep up the great work! ❤
It is something new to me. I believe I will try next Spring. THANK YOU a for the information. (Enid Phillips from Houston, TX)
Oh please let me know how it goes for you if you do! I've thought about revisiting if we ever decide to refocus on heirloom varieties.
Thank you for the tips, we are getting our garden going, posting videos. Looking to connect with other gardeners!
You're very welcome! And best of luck with your endeavor!
Lol, nice Frankenstein type of guy 🤭
I watched the grafting vid last season and you did seem to have fun doing it so it was not wasted.
I'm glad my only torture is deciding which 6 or 7 seedlings out of 30 I've potted I'm going to actually plant
I had a blast. It's very much my kind of gardening ;)
I somehow have like 50 more seedlings than I need again this year. I feel your pain.
Thanks!
No problem - hope it was interesting! And a big thanks for the coffee tomorrow ;)
Different species of tomato are selected for different traits when grafting, such with withstanding diseases, and heat tolerance.
Yep! Definitely correct! A different rootstock variety may have been more productive for us (I think it likely actually).
I got lazy and didn’t even try grafting this year. Thank you for sharing your experience with grafting.
100% - no problem
Was bugging me not share out the results for so long. I might return to the topic one day if we go back to growing mostly heirlooms. For now, onto other experiments ;)
Yay!! Been waiting for this.
I hope it was informative!
@@NextdoorHomestead it was!
Very informative. Well done!
Thanks for watching! Wish my conclusions were different, but fun to discuss nonetheless ;)
Very interesting. I wondered if it was worth the extra work and pretty much decided to wait and see! Glad I did!
The hard tomatoes were probably from an errant seed that fell into the batch or a cross that went wrong from the supplier.
There is possibility for genetic change by plant exosomes exchanged through the graft but I'd say it's unlikely they would have such a dramatic effect at first grafting. Usually you have to graft, collect seed, graft those seedlings again and repeat for a few generations before trait exchange is noticable
Thank you for the additional line of inquiry - I'm interested in the topic even if it wasn't the "root" cause in this case.
And I'll admit I hadn't considered a more mundane cause like an errant seed. Myopic on my part!
Anyhow, thank you for watching. Appreciate the inputs!
Found your channel today and really enjoyed watching 😊
What state are you in ?
YES! So glad to hear that. Thank you for watching =)
We are in zone 9 but decided as a family to not share our specific location beyond that. I hope you can understand!
Absolutely 😊 thank you
Thank you for a new and interesting more intermediate/advanced tomato growing topic. Great video, very informative. I've grown some store bought grafted tomatoes and had a similar experience. Very vigorous, wow! I had determinate grafted tomatoes and can imagine the vigor trying to keep an indeterminate grafted tomato on a single leader. Was not impressed by fruit production either (Roma type).
You're so very welcome and thanks for sharing your firsthand experience! And yep, my trellis was not designed for that kind of growth 0_o
Interesting. I can't imagine I would ever put the work in. Good to know it's not worth it.
Glad it was at least interesting! Frustrating to make this video because I wanted to rave about my results 0_o
@@NextdoorHomestead that's research for ya. Be happy it wasn't your PhD 😄
Nice to have a point by point rundown--though most people I've seen who've tried it have had the same or worse results. Thanks for the info
It is very much not the video I expected to make honestly! There's clearly a set of use cases it makes sense for and I was oh-so-optimistic when those plants started to overtake the standard non-grafted hybrids. I really thought grafting would be a part of our tool bag.
@@NextdoorHomestead that seems to be the general consensus I've seen with home gardeners so far. I need to go back to no-till growers and see what Jesse's takeaway was for a commercial scale grower because I don't remember.