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Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Little Catch Up
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Grittyville, WA
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Grafting was my main goal for this year. I did end up planting 5 or 6 of the grafted plants. Oddly enough the only plant that totally collapsed was a grafted plant. Generally, the average tomato size was similar enough to say there was no difference. The ungrafted plants had better megas both years. So that's a nut I have yet to find.
Photo tour: The graft unions healed very well. In all cases the plants formed very strong and very clean onions. The 8.46 was not grafted, a large healthy plant but as far as tomatoes I didn't get anything spectacular.
The one with disease failure was 10.46 LaRue on Submarine rootstock. There is some browning around the stem (the cambium layer). It also caused wilting. It went down into the roots and also up into the scion. Not sure what the entry point was or when the disease began. The other plants seem to be clean/ free of disease.
The Fortamino plant was huge... the most excessive foliage of all. Overwhelming. Despite repeated pruning.
Conclusion: there's nothing more to conclude. Had another submarine rootstock nearby that went berserk, super healthy. So, I can't even conclude anything negative about that particular rootstock.
Both years that I've grafted, the rootstock eventually pushed out some suckers. So maybe being vigilant for this would help.
Will have to set a different goal for 2027.
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