The Tropical Fruit Forum
Everything Else => Tropical Vegetables and Other Edibles => Topic started by: Doglips on November 20, 2013, 07:25:06 AM
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I swear this belongs in the Onion, but I guess it is legit.
A cross of a tomato and a potato???
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24281192 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24281192)
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Apparently they use some technique known as grafting, anyone heard of this?
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I recall seeing those plants in seed catelouges back in the 1980's.
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Apparently they use some technique known as grafting, anyone heard of this?
It is a very popular method of propagation. There have been hundreds of grafting related threads. Forum member Plantlover13 seems to be interested in creating a pomato.
Plantlover's pomato thread:
http://tropicalvegetableforum.com/index.php?topic=780.msg1305#msg1305 (http://tropicalvegetableforum.com/index.php?topic=780.msg1305#msg1305)
About grafting:
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=209.0 (http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=209.0)
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Apparently they use some technique known as grafting, anyone heard of this?
No, never. Where did you hear of such a thing?
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This was posted a few months ago, and a few months before that. They are sold at Bunnings here, which is like Home Depot I think? Potatoes rarely grow well here, so they make terrible rootstock for tomatoes, and the tomatoes they graft on are much more suited to temperate or cool sub-tropical areas than the warm subtropics.