"DIY TomTato - Grafting Tomatoes onto Potatoes 2014"

Yes,I've got the bug but really ought to learn more of the 'science' behind it instead of just hedging my bets

 

Blimey huge Chutney Suicide accident waiting to happen there! ... I am seriously doubting that all peoples will have read that small print carefully enough, and all know what Spud Fruits look like ...

If you plant mega-deep, and given the spuds will be under ground all-season, is there more scope for spud-bearing roots to form perhaps? a bit like earthing up (Mains)

Anyways, I reckon you guys should be grafting near-impossible things that sell for extortionate prices

 

Cornus florida subspecies urbiniana

http://www.strangewonderfulthings.com/159.htm

Seeds are at least £10 each ... and I haven't been able to source a Mother Plant, otherwise I'd be "in" (First eBay completed-sale that I found was $100 for 7 seeds )

Available in USA for $25 for a 5" pot ... (well, "out of stock" until next season ... hardly any are grown that I can find ...)

Let me know if you find a source for a mother-plant in Europe ... I definitely want one

 

That Cornus is amazing Kristen....

I took the cling film and clips off today,not pretty but look like the want to grow,I also removed the potato shoots and earthed them up slightly,they'll stay in the GH until this weather looks like it might improve

 

Hmmm ... if you earth up (contrary to my earlier thoughts ...) you'll get roots off the Tomato stem.

Presumably, for grafted tomatoes, you aren't supposed to do that (to get the benefit of the Rootstock rather than the Scion's own root)? Thus shouldn't earth-up / plant-deep such that the graft of Pomatoes is buried either (albeit that, grafting onto Potato, you aren't looking to get disease-resistance or similar from the rootstock)

 

I've earthed them up well below the grating joints

 

Point of order: Worth grafting "high" to have earthing up "height" [below graft] available?

 

Just checked T&M's Tomtato page:

"Plant grafted tomato-potato plants with the graft union below soil level, burying the stem up to the second tomato leaf from the base. This aids stability and growth, and ensures the potatoes develop fully underground. Water thoroughly after planting."

 

Now that seems odd to me does it you?....
The way my grafts have taken the roots from them look desperate to get into the soil but that would be defeating the object surely,you might just as well just grow a potato and tomato in the same pot.Still,if all goes to plan I should have 3 different coloured tomatoes,a main crop spud and a few lettuce and radish and a chilli all in one pot,that's tea sorted

 

My early spuds are almost ready & my toms are setting fruit as usual.
Whats the point of a Tomtato again?

 

If you have to ask ...