Hi to everyone. I am Steve's sister.
Steve, I just saw this. I will try to to find the information you refer to above and post it.
I think it is worth mentioning that I did give some grafted plants to a friend last year that was trying to grow heirlooms in soil with fusarium. He started with 6 grafted Plants(Maxifort rootstock and the heirloom scions included Mullen's mortgage Lifter, African Queen, Wes, and Black Krim) and about the same number of ungrafted. All but one of the ungrafted plants died early in the season from fusarium. The one surviving ungrafted was a McClintock's Big Pink . I think it had about 3 tomatoes on a small plant. One of the grafted plants did not survive but the other 5 were enormous and loaded with fruit. They survived the entire season. The Maxifort rootstock has tolerance to fusarium wilt (races 1 and 2) and in this case it made a dramatic difference. I think it would be worth trying in infected soil.
Marla
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