Tom...please keep us posted on your results. What are you expecting to gain from this exercise? I am very curious to learn if this rootstock provides any resistance to bacterial or fungal disease.

Marc

I am expecting/hoping for a longer harvest season and heavier production due to the vigor and disease resistance of the rootstock. The results of the trials out of North Carolina make me hopeful

if you want to see something really amazing, let one of the maxiforts grow on its own.

the fruit wont be tasty, or plentiful, but the plant is truely a monster.

keep it WELL away from the others.

PS, if you have 5 spare seeds, i'd gladly trade/purchase them off you.

email junk@ponyshow for your terms.

Are you able to give us some results from your grafted tomatoes yet? Just curious, I want to try this out sometime too!

FWIW, Carolyn137 mentioned in another thread that a colleague says that some hybrid tomatoes with disease resistance can be successfully used as rootstock as well as Maxifort. She mentioned Celebrity but extended it to include some other tomato plants with hybrid disease resistance. So you can grow your own rootstock if you can't come by the standard Maxifort.
The hybridizer I spoke with said they had tested Celebrity but there are other well known hybrids that have the same tolerances as noted by their variety names, as can be seen if one just looks at the TGS website/catalog, for instance.

Big Beef is also VFFNTA, for instance.

fruiter,

How is it going?? Please post update.

DL