Meanwhile, Montgomery is preparing to graft himself to the grafting bandwagon. He ordered rootstock seeds, grafting clips, and seed for some of his scions from Johnny's, and more scion seed from ...

Grafting is a great way to grow more than one variety of fruit on the same tree. (You can produce a "fruit cocktail" tree of, say, lemons, oranges and limes but you need the fruits to be ...

Doyle says she finds her rootstocks in Holland and buys grafting clips in Japan. The newly grafted tomatoes sit in a dark and humid room for three days to reconnect the vascular tissues.

Q: I like to grow heirloom varieties of tomatoes but the last few years I have had issues with several tomato diseases in my garden beds. I have purchased grafted tomato plants that have done very ...

Grafting also is done with other veggies, such as cucumbers and eggplants. Oregon's Territorial Seed Co. ... Johnny's also sells the clips and tubes needed to attach the two plants.

Grafting tomatoes has helped reduce diseases and cracks and provides a better tomato. ... rootstock and heirloom tomatoes with about the same diameter stems, clips and a “healing” chamber.

But grafting is different. After beheading the top of rootstock, a small slit is made to accommodate the brinjal seedling and the two are tied using grafting clips or polythene strips.