{"id":11549,"date":"2017-04-03T00:27:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T23:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11549"},"modified":"2017-03-25T14:52:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T14:52:55","slug":"grafted-tomato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/grafted-tomato\/","title":{"rendered":"Grafted Tomato a Turbo Veg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tomato by photon_de, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photon_de\/2700323949\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3218\/2700323949_591c921968.jpg\" alt=\"Tomato\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What are Grafted Tomatoes<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Grafting produces growth and fruiting of one plant on the rootstock of another.<\/li>\n<li>Currently over half of tomatoes grown commercially in the UK have been produced on grafted stock<\/li>\n<li>Grafted veg will grow when the days are shorter and the weather is cooler so they are easier to grow outdoors<\/li>\n<li>Tomatoes are very tender perennial plants and stand up well to grafting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Suttons and Dobies<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suttons of seed fame are contacting all there trade customers with a new product offering for sale in 2012. &#8216; Turbo veg&#8217; are claiming up to 75% more crop from the Grafted Tomato plants that they will be offering for sale.<\/li>\n<li>4 varieties including &#8216;Elegance&#8217; and &#8216;Zebrino&#8217; will be available using a new process that grafts above the first true leaf not below the cotyledons as most currently available grafts are.<\/li>\n<li>Suttons have identified a rootstock that has vigor and disease resistance missing from the scion (graftee). It claims to have greater vigour, higher yield, longer cropping and better disease and pest resistance.<\/li>\n<li>Following success with tomatoes you may want to try grafted Sweet and Chilli Peppers, Cucumbers, Melons and Aubergines<\/li>\n<li>Two plum-fruited varieties \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDasher&#8217; and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSunorange&#8217; are available on one plant! Not my cup of tea!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See our <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=111\">Tips for growing tasty Tomatoes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can learn to graft your own tomatoes from watching this you tube video (but why would you want too?)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tHnOYcI6B44\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>MAIN PHOTOGRAPH Tomato by photon_de, on Flickr under creative commons license 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grafting tomatoes produces growth and fruiting of one plant on the rootstock of another. Good rootstock characteristics can combine with good flavour and fruit production to good effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}