Anyone here graft or buy grafted tomato plants? I get the benefits of it but I'd it really worth the extra time or expenses to do it? Makes sense for trees and other perennials but not annuals from a market or home use perspect. Maybe for competition or coolness factor.

I have a neighbor that grafts his own. He says it is legit. Lots of trouble but legit. But he start his own sweet potato slips, saves seed, starts everything in a greenhouse and is retired.

Me personally, I don't see the benefit with all the different cultivars to choose from. Surely I can find a few that thrive in my soil. Maybe a benefit if there's one particular cultivar that I must have but needs that little extra. Like maybe boosting production on pink brandywine or adding some blight resistance. But I've trialed dozens and most do okay, some I won't try again, but I've found a few that meet my needs.

I tried last year but had zero success. The first bunch I did I thought it was going to be easy. They looked good for about five days then kaput. Same with my other attempts.


I watched several videos but I wasn't doing something right. I got the clips. Just need to order some more rootstock seed and I can try again. Actually I've thought about just using the same kind of tomato from seeds I've saved just to try to get the process learned. Those rootstock seeds are kind of expensive to keep losing them all.

Did you do the healing process? The process I looked at from purdue says you need to pump the humidity and watch the heat.

It seems like more trouble than it’s worth. Like warrior said, with the hundreds of different cultivars out there, there has to be one that will grow well for you.

there are a ton of ways to improve tomato success without grafting. Soil prep for one. Almost every gardener I know does soil prep all wrong. Polyculture planting for two. Over fertilizing/under fertilizing/ wrong fertilizing are often the culprit of bad luck with tomatoes. Pest control done wrong too. Getting water on the leaves hurts em too.

If you fix all those things and still can’t get good results, then maybe it’s time to start thinking about grafts.

There is one graft dad told me about way back when I'd like to see. He claimed that because tomatoes and potatoes are both solanums that they are graft compatible and you could grow tomatoes and potatoes on the same plant. That I would like to see.

I tried it two years ago. No advantage. Didn’t turnout well at all.

Warrior I have seen those plants ,tomato -potato plants On YouTube and in one of my seed catalogs