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| Out of curiosity, has anyone here actually made a pomato (tomato grafted onto potato rootstock) plant before? I'm going to have plenty of extra blue tomato and blue potato plants this year, so I'm thinking "What they heck, lets get grafting!" Wondering how the productivity is, considering its one plant trying to store energy in both fruit above ground and tubers below ground at the same time. |
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- Posted by missingtheobvious Blue Ridge 7a (My Page) on Sat, Feb 9, 13 at 11:29
| I've never grafted anything, but I've read that potato fruit (sometimes referred to as potato berries) are pretty rare, unless you're planting Yukon Gold. So I'm not sure how many tomatoes you'd get. Maybe more on Yukon Gold rootstock? But then again, perhaps your blue potato variety also has a high fruiting rate. You won't know till you try, so go for it! [In case people don't know, potato fruit are poisonous. And potatoes never come true from seed -- but that's how new varieties are developed.] |
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| I assume you have read the current discussion about this over on the Vegetable Gardening forum? Dave |
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| Yup, I'm watching both of them. Figured there would be people in each forum that didn't visit the other though, so I'd get better luck with two threads. One aimed at the tomato people, and one aimed at the potato people. =) |
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