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A Tomato Growing Trick That Seems Insane, But Works Like a Charm

If you like the flavor of heirloom tomatoes but the performance of a hybrid, grafting tomatoes is a surprisingly easy and fun way to get the best of both worlds. By combining a rootstock tomato like the ‘Fortamino’ with your favorite heirloom, you can boost its resistance to disease, the number of tomatoes per truss, and even the leaf cover to help prevent sunscald.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – What Is Grafting
01:51 – What You Will Need
03:06 – 1. Top Grafting
07:10 – 2. Cleft Grafting
10:46 – Post Grafting

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28 Replies to “A Tomato Growing Trick That Seems Insane, But Works Like a Charm”

  4. Astra razor blades. Seems like a waste to use the best shaving blades for grafting..

  5. Love every one of your videos. I'm in SE Fl close to the coast and have sand everywhere. Been doing container tomatoes but only having really healthy plants with Roma varieties. When I lived in San Diego I grew giant tomatoes profusely and canned my own ketchup recipe, salsa, and spaghetti sauce with them. If anyone knows good varieties for zone 10a, please reply.

  6. This is great, never thought of this! If you use a longer (taller) root stock, you could burry it deeper, just as long as the graft is above the soil?

  7. Wow, I didn't know tomatoes could be grafted. Thank you so much… learned something totally new!! ????

  9. Would be so cool to see one of the carbon tomatoes growing next to a grafted carbon tomato! I'd love to see a video showing the difference in yields!

  10. This is interesting, I may try this next year! Keep us posted on results.

  11. I used the search bar but don't see the grafting knife or the clips on your shop link. Could you link those please?

  12. When you put the grafted tomato in the ground, do you bury the graft? I would asume you do with an annual like a tomato, but not with a perennial. Correct?

  13. this is so cool!! i'm so excited to see update videos on how the fortamino rootstock impacts these tomatoes!!

  14. This is a great way to get your feet wet with grafting! Tomatoes are fast growing a cheap! Way better to start with something like this than to jump straight into fruit trees where we could kill a few hundred dollars of plants off ???? thanks for the tip! ❤

  15. Thank you! A gardening video for gardeners who are not newbies! I learned something from this and I’m definitely going to try this next year. This is why your channel is so successful, you understand that not all YouTube garden channel watchers are new to gardening. It’s refreshing and exciting for folks like me who have gardened for a long time to come across a technique that I haven’t tried. Grafted tomatoes are $20 at garden centers near me so I’ve never purchased one, next year I’ll make my own. Great channel, Kevin!

  16. Dose it matter if the top graft is indeterminate? I've never seen anyone graft annuals before. Very cool!

  17. Thank you do much for this information – due to work I didn’t get to grow my own seeds – so I went out and bought starts. The San Marzano’s I bought are grafted – I’m planting them tomorrow and I was contemplating cutting the lower leave and burying it deep ????

  19. Love to see you talking about the benefits of grafting. Super fun to do, even better after you see the results! ????????

  21. I’ve been gardening many years and I had never heard of grafting! Thank you, very interesting ????????????????

  22. If you add a drop of distilled water with a drop of DMSO in the graft when u do it …. I bet it would help a LOT!

  23. KEVIN!!!!!!, I need help, I am 15 and am just getting into gardening and I want to know how to make my soil less hard and compact. It seems like it turns into concrete instead of a soft, fluffy soil. Also I am going to be making your easier bed with wood and planter blocks and I want to know if I should put down cardboard in the bottom?

    Thank you so much

  24. I tried this with 10 rootstock seeds. I thought the cutting went well but by the time they came out of the healing chamber only 3 made it ????

  25. I think I saw James Prigioni on The Gardening Channel do something like this last year. If I remember correctly, he basically made it so he was growing 2 different tomatoes on the same plant by grafting one as a second leader.

  27. Curious how many home growers are looking to graft tomatoes, versus growing the variety that we want to grow, straight from the jump. Knowledge is great, for sure, just wondering about the practical application for most of your viewers.

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