Peppers If You Buy Grafted Plants, Hannah Stephenson Discovers
Gloucestershire Echo, The › October 06, 2011
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This year, amid all the hubbub of family life, I'm ashamed to say that I forgot about several plug plants which had been posted to me by Suttons, including the F1 tomato 'Conchita' and the F1 aubergine 'Scorpio' va r i -eties. They remained in their plastic delivery tubs far longer than they should have done and when I finally planted them into pots on my sheltered, sunny patio in June, they understandably looked somewhat forlorn. However, in no time at all they perked up and, with a little TLC, all the plants have now given me plentiful crops, which is more than I can say for another tomato plant I bought from a nursery, planted out immediately and lovingly tended but which has succumbed to late blight.
Amazed at the harvest I received from the plants I first neglected, I discovered that they were all grafted plants. The growers select vigorous disease-resistant rootstocks and graft tasty varieties on top, removing the top of the tasty variety by hand, using a small blade to slice diagonally across the stem.See the full content of this document
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Peppers If You Buy Grafted Plants, Hannah Stephenson Discovers
The strong rootstock of the second variety is then removed by the same process and the two plants ar...
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