harveyc

Johnny's seeds is where I bought my Maxifort seeds (and the silicone clips and also some other tomato varieties). The video on that page from a grower back east is what I followed in doing my grafts (I used the top grafting method demonstrated half ways through the video). I posted that video here in the "Pretty Good" thread, I think.

Thanks for the link to the GardenWeb link, I had not seen that. I wish that guy had grown out the F2 seedlings further and actually compared them to some F1 seeds as his comparison seems very informal. I had not thought of using cuttings for grafting but think that's worth a try base don the price of the seeds. Probably not the most efficient method, especially since you've got to try to have plants all the correct size to match up with your scions, but it's worth a try.

It's far too early to make a comparison but when I was planting out some tomatoes the other day I noticed that one plant of a particular variety grafted onto Maxifort was much fuller and greener than the other five non-grafted plants of the same variety.

For what it's worth, my grafting success was 19 out of 20. The one that failed was doubtful from the beginning since the scion was very small and maybe it would have been successful if I waited a few days longer. The success of one guy there are GardenWeb was pretty poor but he seemed to be grafting outdoors on plants that were in the ground.

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