Hi,

Does anyone have any tips re Grafting Tomatoes. I'm giving it a try with
Marshals Rootstock, Red Alert, and Alicante etc. Will the resulting plant
(if successful) be a hybrid?

H Fear UK

In article MpXY9.4890$pS2.282439@stones, pronoun fearhoward@fearhowar
d.plus.com writes
Hi,

Does anyone have any tips re Grafting Tomatoes. I'm giving it a try with
Marshals Rootstock, Red Alert, and Alicante etc. Will the resulting plant
(if successful) be a hybrid?

It's worth a try. Marshalls say that they give full instructions.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

In article MpXY9.4890$pS2.282439@stones, pronoun fearhoward@fearhowar
d.plus.com writes
Hi,

Does anyone have any tips re Grafting Tomatoes. I'm giving it a try with
Marshals Rootstock, Red Alert, and Alicante etc. Will the resulting
plant
(if successful) be a hybrid?

No it will be a plant with one variety as rootstock, the other (whatever you
have grafted on) as the actual tomato.

--
Tumbleweed

Remove my socks before replying (but no email reply necessary to newsgroups)

Send your request to me at and I will copy from one
of my books a detailed description with sketches etc......you will not get a
hybrid.......after grafting you cut off the root section of one and the
header section off one.......thus leaving you with a desease restistant root
and a regular upper growth........alternately, if there is a copy of the RHS
Propagating Plants book by Alan Toogood available, check that out as it has
what you are looking for.

If you follow the directions well there should be no problem in producing a
good graft...a fairly easy task........HW

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 20:31:21 -0000, "pronoun"
wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone have any tips re Grafting Tomatoes. I'm giving it a try with
Marshals Rootstock, Red Alert, and Alicante etc.

I've not tried it so can't comment on whether it's worth it.

Will the resulting plant
(if successful) be a hybrid?

No, a hybrid is a sexual cross between 2 diferent species (or
occassionally genera)you will have one variety of rootstock and a
different variety of scion that have been joined together, they will
still both be different genetically.
--
Pete The Gardener
A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Hi All,

Thank you for your replies. I have sown the seeds, and if I understand, I
will get the equivalent of a heart transplant--rather than a hybrid (If it
all works out). What will the offspring of such a plant be? My guess: half
the genes of the top bit (scion) and half of whatever pollinates it.

H Fear

"Pete The Gardener" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 20:31:21 -0000, "pronoun"
wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone have any tips re Grafting Tomatoes. I'm giving it a try with
Marshals Rootstock, Red Alert, and Alicante etc.

I've not tried it so can't comment on whether it's worth it.

Will the resulting plant
(if successful) be a hybrid?

No, a hybrid is a sexual cross between 2 diferent species (or
occassionally genera)you will have one variety of rootstock and a
different variety of scion that have been joined together, they will
still both be different genetically.
--
Pete The Gardener
A room without books is like a body without a soul.

"pronoun" wrote in message
news:vHpZ9.5650$pS2.340961@stones...
Hi All,

Thank you for your replies. I have sown the seeds, and if I understand, I
will get the equivalent of a heart transplant--rather than a hybrid (If it
all works out). What will the offspring of such a plant be? My guess:
half
the genes of the top bit (scion) and half of whatever pollinates it.

You can sometimes get hybrid shoots arising from the grafting point which
are a mix of the scion and the root stock. I don't know how common they are
and I've never seen one on sale but when grown on they are described as
Something + Something instead of Something x Something.

Martin