Triple Variety Tomato Graft Experiment - Page 41

aclum · June 5, 2015

Hi Delerium,

Nice bunch of tomatoes! Fun to compare the size differences between the most recent photo of your daughter holding the tomato with the older photo in your avatar. Both your daughter and your tomatoes have grown

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Good luck with your (and my) water management this summer. Looks like the hot weather's going to be hitting us this weekend and into next week

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Anne

Hunt-Grow-Cook · June 5, 2015

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Best. Pictures. Ever. Truly adorable, the tomatoes are beautiful too.

DSEVERANCE · June 5, 2015

Nice. The orange kinda looks like a Kelloges Breakfast. What rootstock are you using these days?

Delerium · June 5, 2015

Thanks Hunt-Grow-Cook! We love our maters. Dseverance those are indeed Kelloggs Breakfast - Yummo (they taste even better in our heat)! I always make sure i have a few plants of Kb.

Rootstock Big Beef

DSEVERANCE · June 6, 2015

Have you ever tried grafting to one of the interspecific hybrid rootstocks like Maxifort or Estamino?

Delerium · June 6, 2015

I've used Maxifort, Multifort and Beaufort. And out of those three I liked Beaufort the best which is the oldest of the rootstock varieties. Never tried Estamino - Anne & Bill are experts on Estamino. I won't be doing anymore grafting experiments because i think I'm quite happy with the results (combinations of my grafts) just using regular hybrid rootstocks. I haven't had to spray a single plant this year and they are all producing heavily for me. I might start doing some grafting soon to prep some plants for the fall.

BigVanVader · June 6, 2015

Maybe you should start a Youtube web series showing how you go about getting your results. Your growing interest are so varied and successful I'm sure it would be a hit and helpful to us less accomplished gardeners. Just a thought. Wonderful pics, your little girl is too cute! My wife and I are having a little girl in October and I am already envisioning her holding up my maters!

DSEVERANCE · June 6, 2015

I did trials in the greenhouse with Estimino and Maxifort side by side and the difference was very noticeable. More fruit. Interestingly enough I grafted several Big Beef onto a Estamino this year. What are you having to spray for? We don't ever have pest problems with tomatoes in Eastern Washington. I graft simply for yield. We used to have tomato worms but I haven't seen one of those for decades.

Delerium · June 8, 2015

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Originally Posted by BigVanVader

Maybe you should start a Youtube web series showing how you go about getting your results. Your growing interest are so varied and successful I'm sure it would be a hit and helpful to us less accomplished gardeners. Just a thought. Wonderful pics, your little girl is too cute! My wife and I are having a little girl in October and I am already envisioning her holding up my maters!

Congratulations! Man your going to love every bit of it. Take lots of pictures/videos they grow so fast before you blink an eye. I always look back at our old gardening videos when my daughter was smaller and it always makes me smile / laugh. We have some pretty funny clips i wish i could upload them here but i don't know how to pull the videos off my fb page.

Delerium · June 8, 2015

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Originally Posted by DSEVERANCE

I did trials in the greenhouse with Estimino and Maxifort side by side and the difference was very noticeable. More fruit. Interestingly enough I grafted several Big Beef onto a Estamino this year. What are you having to spray for? We don't ever have pest problems with tomatoes in Eastern Washington. I graft simply for yield. We used to have tomato worms but I haven't seen one of those for decades.

I haven't sprayed anything this year but normally its just spraying for preventative measures. Especially foliage diseases (i just use neem). But here in california we also have nematode problems but i don't have that problem because the oyster mushrooms just kill them all.

VC Scott · June 13, 2015

Delerium:

A question for you. I have a source of free mushroom compost from a local mushroom grower. They use hardwood shavings and wheat bran as raw materials for their compost. They are growing Oyster and ★★★★ake mushrooms. They do not use fertilizer, herbicides or pesticides in their production.

When the mushrooms are finished producing, the raw material is placed in a big compost pile.

I am a bit concerned about the hardwood shavings as it might rob the soil of nitrogen as it decomposes. On the other hand, it might be decomposed already as a consequence of the mushroom growing process.

What do you think?

Delerium · June 14, 2015

It will do wonders to your soil & plants. Use it.

Redbaron · June 17, 2015

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Originally Posted by Delerium

It will do wonders to your soil & plants. Use it.

Agreed, I have gotten good use from the little I use.

Delerium · June 22, 2015

Tomato Table seems to always be full. Doesn't matter if you give them away to friends and family the tomatoes keep flowing in. So many ripey ones outdoors but to lazy to go harvest them. Maybe today. Spotted some black varieties ripening in our heat - i bet they will be very tasty with the water restrictions.

efisakov · June 22, 2015

I hope you making some salsa, sous, pizza and more.

June 5, 2015	#604
Delerium Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: California Posts: 942	Thanks Hunt-Grow-Cook! We love our maters. Dseverance those are indeed Kelloggs Breakfast - Yummo (they taste even better in our heat)! I always make sure i have a few plants of Kb. Rootstock Big Beef Last edited by Delerium; June 5, 2015 at 04:17 PM.

June 22, 2015	#615
efisakov Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: NJ, zone 7 Posts: 3,162	I hope you making some salsa, sous, pizza and more. __________________ Ella God comes along and says, "I think I'm going to create THE tomato!”

June 5, 2015	#601
aclum Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Merced, CA Posts: 832	Hi Delerium, Nice bunch of tomatoes! Fun to compare the size differences between the most recent photo of your daughter holding the tomato with the older photo in your avatar. Both your daughter and your tomatoes have grown . Good luck with your (and my) water management this summer. Looks like the hot weather's going to be hitting us this weekend and into next week . Anne

June 5, 2015	#603
DSEVERANCE Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Clarkston, WA Posts: 37	Nice. The orange kinda looks like a Kelloges Breakfast. What rootstock are you using these days?

June 6, 2015	#605
DSEVERANCE Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Clarkston, WA Posts: 37	Have you ever tried grafting to one of the interspecific hybrid rootstocks like Maxifort or Estamino?

June 6, 2015	#606
Delerium Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: California Posts: 942	I've used Maxifort, Multifort and Beaufort. And out of those three I liked Beaufort the best which is the oldest of the rootstock varieties. Never tried Estamino - Anne & Bill are experts on Estamino. I won't be doing anymore grafting experiments because i think I'm quite happy with the results (combinations of my grafts) just using regular hybrid rootstocks. I haven't had to spray a single plant this year and they are all producing heavily for me. I might start doing some grafting soon to prep some plants for the fall.

June 6, 2015	#607
BigVanVader Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Greenville, South Carolina Posts: 3,099	Maybe you should start a Youtube web series showing how you go about getting your results. Your growing interest are so varied and successful I'm sure it would be a hit and helpful to us less accomplished gardeners. Just a thought. Wonderful pics, your little girl is too cute! My wife and I are having a little girl in October and I am already envisioning her holding up my maters!

June 6, 2015	#608
DSEVERANCE Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Clarkston, WA Posts: 37	I did trials in the greenhouse with Estimino and Maxifort side by side and the difference was very noticeable. More fruit. Interestingly enough I grafted several Big Beef onto a Estamino this year. What are you having to spray for? We don't ever have pest problems with tomatoes in Eastern Washington. I graft simply for yield. We used to have tomato worms but I haven't seen one of those for decades.

June 13, 2015	#611
VC Scott Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: San Marcos, CA Posts: 352	Delerium: A question for you. I have a source of free mushroom compost from a local mushroom grower. They use hardwood shavings and wheat bran as raw materials for their compost. They are growing Oyster and ★★★★ake mushrooms. They do not use fertilizer, herbicides or pesticides in their production. When the mushrooms are finished producing, the raw material is placed in a big compost pile. I am a bit concerned about the hardwood shavings as it might rob the soil of nitrogen as it decomposes. On the other hand, it might be decomposed already as a consequence of the mushroom growing process. What do you think?

June 14, 2015	#612
Delerium Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: California Posts: 942	It will do wonders to your soil & plants. Use it.