seeds for grafting tomatoes

[Scarlet]

OMG! Scarlet runs around like a nutter looking for her seeds

[chillithyme]

Looks like we will be sowing at roughly the same time
I too have been on the seedhunt, turns out that I don't have any rootstock seeds after all, I've just ordered some, hopefully they will be here soon!

Im going to sow seeds in staggers to try and see if I can find the closest stem size possible to the graft when the time comes. So some tomatoes seeds about a week before sowing the grafts, some at the same time, and some a week after

[Scarlet]

Ok ...I will try to do the same!

[chillithyme]

update, have only just managed to sow any seeds.Today I sowed the rootstock seeds and tomatoes seeds at the same time. The packet says to sow the rootstock about a week before the normal tomatoes seeds. So I will also sow another lot of tomatoes seeds in about a week.

You can never have too many tomatoes

[Scarlet]

What variety are you going to use to graft on?

My root stocks are in....I have loads of toms in varying stages but I need to plant some more. Just wondering what you are going to graft on?

[chillithyme]

Im using estamino rootstock seeds, I've sown 6
The tomatoe seeds that I've sown so far to choose from for grafting onto the rootstock are: Cristal, Outdoor girl, Ferline, Ailsa Craig, San Marzano, Red pear (beef), Money maker and Alicante

As you can probably tell I have too many to choose from


How about you Scarlet?

[Scarlet]

Right.... I've got my F1 Submarine toms ready. I've a variety of toms to graft with.

Yikes! How do I do this? I am reading up..,,

Chillithyme......are yours ready?

[chillithyme]

Yikes, you can say that again!

Mine are up, but not ready yet , I think about another week for me at least, though il have to double check tommorow and hope that i've not taken my eye off the ball

Ive been watching other peoples videos online. I need to get some clips or tape, totally forgot to get it, must get asap

Do you know if you will be using tape or clips?or something else?

[Scarlet]

I've got two clips - xmad present from NG
The others will be tape.

To be fair - I've read nothing I'm doing it now! So mine might not be ready yet

I will be back.

[Scarlet]

Ok... panic over I am not ready! They need to be over 10cm tall... not long though.

[Scarlet]

Step by step photos here ......
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=825

The question is....can I graft a Chilli onto one of the tomato rootstocks?

[Scarlet]

Articles for info - grafting chillies to tom root stock
https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...g+Capsicum.pdf

https://www.fatalii.net/grafting.pdf

[chillithyme]

As you are reading up on grafting, so am I, well actually watching videos on it

[chillithyme]

Brilliant links, thanks scarlet

[Scarlet]

This looks the easiest to me - second video down.....I wonder how Mark did his?

https://www.tomatogrowing.co.uk/graf...ock-advantages