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    What tape can I use for cloning?

    I sliced the top half of a chilli (stem) and the bottom half (inc. root) of a tommy and have connected them together but I have used masking tape (), is there anything I can use to tape of the two plants, something organic or something else, I dunno.
    Follow my garden and chilli growing project... @impatientgrower
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    grafting tape from your gc

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    • #3
      That's great thanks.
      Follow my garden and chilli growing project... @impatientgrower

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      • #4
        Why have you done that? The grafting?
        "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

        Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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        • #5
          Because toms have better disease resistance than chili's and wanted to experiment. Oh and that's the word I was looking for, grafting!
          Follow my garden and chilli growing project... @impatientgrower

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          • #6
            Do you expect a chilli to grow at the same rate as tomatoes? Why do you think toms have better disease resistance than chillies?
            To see a world in a grain of sand
            And a heaven in a wild flower

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            • #7
              I'd say it was the other way round.....chillis are much more hardy and disease resistant than toms...

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              • #8
                I wouldn't have thought the graft would have taken, doesn't grafting have to be in the same family? Unless I am wrong, chillies aren't in the same family as tomatoes, are they?
                "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

                Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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                • #9
                  Grafting with toms and chillis have already been done.
                  YouTube - Crossing peppers - 2m 35s

                  "Here we have a chilli that has been grafted on to a tomato rootstock because tomato has disease resistance that the chilli doesn't. So now we have the root resistance from the tomato and then the chilli fruits up on top."
                  Last edited by Naga; 04-04-2009, 05:14 PM.
                  Follow my garden and chilli growing project... @impatientgrower

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                  • #10
                    Still not convinced - as they say different disease resistance, not better. Looked like it should have been an April Fool - the toms/chilli plants were tiny...What was the woman doing with that (dead?) bee?
                    Last edited by smallblueplanet; 04-04-2009, 05:59 PM.
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                    And a heaven in a wild flower

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                    • #11
                      If you want to use something organic for binding....use raffia!

                      Don't be put off by all these cynics Herby (wasn't there a beetle of that name?) you just experiment and have a go!

                      I once grafted a tomato to a potatoe haulm .............just to see if I could do it.........AND it worked!
                      Last edited by Snadger; 04-04-2009, 07:35 PM.
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                      to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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                      • #12
                        Have we been April Fooled?
                        When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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                        • #13
                          I've seen elastoplast used as grafting tape before now but that was on a tree rather than a softer plant stem. I've heard of the tomato/potato graft before - 2 crops from one plant potentially (as long as blight doesn't get in on the act!), but never heard of chilli/tomato graft. I suppose it could possibly increase the yield of chillis if it's on a stronger rootstock? Depends on the plant used in each case though, same as fruit trees.

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                          • #14
                            Ok guys. Today I have sown 15 chillis and 15 tomatoes. I have chosen, peppers: Habanero, Jalapeno and Hungarian Yellow Wax.

                            Toms: Gardeners Delight, Moneymaker and Marmande.

                            No particular reason, it's just what I had around.

                            I'm quite interested in creating new types of plants and I'm not fussed if the pods are big or small as this doesn't matter to me, just as long as I can do it, that's all that matters.

                            @smallblueplanet: She was pollinating the plants .


                            I'll update you on my progress.
                            Last edited by Naga; 04-04-2009, 08:02 PM.
                            Follow my garden and chilli growing project... @impatientgrower

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Herby
                              @smallblueplanet: She was pollinating the plants .
                              Yes I know, but most people don't use a (dead?) 'bee on a stick' to artificially pollenate stuff?
                              To see a world in a grain of sand
                              And a heaven in a wild flower

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