This discussion is open to any follow-up discussion, or questions, related to the Tomato Grafting in Southeast Asia: A Useful Technique for Rainy Season Production article recently published in ECHO Asia Note #43
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I have ordered seed and plan to try this at http://MountainAir.Farm.
Our past attempts with tomatoes have not been very successful.
@Patrick_Trail The interns at ECHO North America RIC are interested in setting up a rootstock variety trial for tomato grafting. Do you have any particular rootstock varieties that ECHO Asia would love to see trialed here? Our team was thinking of comparing Everglades (S. pimpinellifolium), Maxifort (S. lycopersicum), a seedling tomoto not grafted, and some variety of eggplant (S. melongena).
Glad to hear this, sounds exciting! You might look into using Solanum torvum as a flood tolerant rootstock variety. It is a wild relative of eggplant, common here in SE Asia and commonly used in Thai cuisine, it has a small bitter eggplant, also known as Pea Eggplant or Turkey Berry. There is some concern of invasive potential though in places like Florida, so it would need to be kept to rootstock production only, as I understand it.
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This is really cool - Iād never heard of this before - I went and read the publication on it - thanks for sharing!
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Thanks Patrick! I know we used to have seed for Pea eggplant so we will check that out tomorrow and try to add it into our trial.