What do you think of this? The Tomtato...

socalgardengal · Mar 31, 2015

I haven't heard of this. Kind of strange
http://www.inspirationgreen.com/tomtato.html

ThePepperTrent · Mar 31, 2015

That is nuts!!! Reading more about it they grafted the cherry tomato on the root of a potato. I guess because they are both nightshade it's possible? Interesting idea...

Helvete · Mar 31, 2015

What is even more interesting is the idea of interspecific hybrids with Solanums. It's done with peppers...

Imagine eggplant crossed with turkey berry (torvum) and getting huge clusters of eggplants

moruga welder · Mar 31, 2015

i really digging the idea of a super hot crossed with a tomato and getting spicy tomatoes from the get go ! :onfire:

Helvete · Mar 31, 2015

moruga welder said:
i really digging the idea of a super hot crossed with a tomato and getting spicy tomatoes from the get go !

Without severe genetic manipulation (although theoretically possible with grafting...except capsaicin isn't present in the trunks/root system) it's not possible. It's difficult enough making interspecifics with Capsicums, you're further complicating it when you're trying to make intergenera crosses...
It happens with animals though...Ligers...Zonkeys...Mules (edit, my mistake, those are all interspecific rather than intergeneric)
You never know.

Here's an interesting article about how the most common potatoes used aren't entirely compatible with their origin plants because they're mostly polyploid and there's studies to correct this to prevent another serious potato famine by back breeding them with wild potatoes

http://www.scri.ac.uk/research/genetics/biodiversity/cpcdiversity

moruga welder · Mar 31, 2015

Helvete said:
Without severe genetic manipulation (although theoretically possible with grafting...except capsaicin isn't present in the trunks/root system) it's not possible. It's difficult enough making interspecifics with Capsicums, you're further complicating it when you're trying to make intergenera crosses...
It happens with animals though...Ligers...Zonkeys...Mules (edit, my mistake, those are all interspecific rather than intergeneric)
You never know.

Here's an interesting article about how the most common potatoes used aren't entirely compatible with their origin plants because they're mostly polyploid and there's studies to correct this to prevent another serious potato famine by back breeding them with wild potatoes

http://www.scri.ac.uk/research/genetics/biodiversity/cpcdiversity

yea i know , but i can still dig the idea ! it is my pipe dream ! lol

Helvete · Mar 31, 2015

moruga welder said:
yea i know , but i can still dig the idea ! it is my pipe dream ! lol

They have made tomatoes with nicotine in them by grafting tobacco with tomatoes lol

Plantguy76 · Mar 31, 2015

moruga welder said:
i really digging the idea of a super hot crossed with a tomato and getting spicy tomatoes from the get go !

haha Simpson's tomacco :onfire:

moruga welder · Mar 31, 2015

i remember we had a 5 different kind of apples tree . :drunk:

does that any sense ? lol

ThePepperTrent · Mar 31, 2015

moruga welder said:
does that any sense ?

no

moruga welder · Mar 31, 2015

lets try it again , but sober ! lol we had a apple tree that produced 5 different types of apples . the branches were all grafted on it . it lived about 15 years then crappied off . How was that ? much better ? :onfire:

ThePepperTrent · Mar 31, 2015

lol just messing. Yeah that makes sense. Did you ever get any fruit?

Helvete · Mar 31, 2015

Yeah I just wanted an excuse to write "Zonkey" personally

Plantguy76 · Mar 31, 2015

Frank just got to say I love your profile pic I used to have one in a paper weight that looked like that I called him Herman lol

moruga welder · Mar 31, 2015

ThePepperTrent said:
lol just messing. Yeah that makes sense. Did you ever get any fruit?

oh yea , it was cool , johnathons, granny smith , gala, red delicious , can't remember the other .

Plantguy76 said:
Frank just got to say I love your profile pic I used to have one in a paper weight that looked like that I called him Herman lol

i made that out of weld wire . got bored at work one day , had it around when i joined t.h.p. and my good friend 96strat said hey how about moruga welder for my user name . i said cool i got a scorpion made out of weld wire . hence the name MORUGA SCORPION ( WELDER )

catherinew · Mar 31, 2015

The TomTato. Hmmm. At one of our garden classes, this was introduced for an introductory price of . . . $24.99. Don't know if they had any in stock yet, but for my money, I'll buy some Fox Farms or Sunshine soil for about the same price (or less).

If anyone does plant one of these grafts, let us know how the harvest goes.

Plantguy76 · Mar 31, 2015

moruga welder said:
oh yea , it was cool , johnathons, granny smith , gala, red delicious , can't remember the other .
i made that out of weld wire . got bored at work one day , had it around when i joined t.h.p. and my good friend 96strat said hey how about moruga welder for my user name . i said cool i got a scorpion made out of weld wire . hence the name MORUGA SCORPION ( WELDER )

I like it lots of talent there a real peace of art .
I like the story behind it also real cool.

wildseed57 · Apr 13, 2015

If I remember right they have been offering the tomato grafted onto a potato plant for some time now, I think I would rather just grow a regular tomato than one of their grafted ones as it just doesn't offer any more disease or pest resistance other than what it had before being grafted. There is a grafted tomato onto a wild stock that offers increased production and more disease resistance and more protection against root knot nematodes.