Grafting Vegetables
Vegetable grafting is a centuries-old technique utilized in Asia to improve plant production, reduce disease susceptibility, and increase soil utilization. Vegetable grafting was introduced in the United States almost 20 years ago and growers are becoming more aware of its attributes and potential. At Washington State University, we began vegetable grafting in 2009 with three crops: tomato, eggplant and watermelon.
Grafting Information
Vegetable Grafting: Eggplant and Tomato, Sacha Johnson, Carol Miles, and Patti Kreider.
Vegetable Grafting: The Healing Chamber, Sacha Johnson, Carol Miles, Patti Kreider, and Jonathan Roozen.
Grafting Supplies, Sacha Johnson, Carol Miles, Patti Kreider and Gale Sterrett.
Retail Rootstock Seed Suppliers, Sacha Johnson, Carol Miles, Patti Kreider and Gale Sterrett.
Grafting Presentations
Grafting Healing Chamber. Sacha Johnson and Carol Miles, Washington State University. How to construct and manage a healing chamber for grafted vegetables. 2011.
History of Vegetable Grafting. Sacha Johnson and Carol Miles, Washington State University. Summary of the history of vegetable grafting. Includes first known uses of vegetable grafting and current uses. 2011.
How to Graft Tomatoes and Eggplant. Sacha Johnson and Carol Miles, Washington State University. Highlights splice grafting for tomato and eggplant, and how to manage newly grafted plants. 2011.
Transplanting Grafted Plants to the Field. Sacha Johnson and Carol Miles, Washington State University. Reviews procedures and considerations for transplanting grafted vegetables into the field. 2011.
Resources
Disease Resistant Vegetable Varieties. Cornell University Plant Pathology Vegetable MD.
Grafting for Disease Management in Organic Tomato Production Webinar. Frank Louws of North Carolina State University and Cary Rivard of Kansas State University provide information about rootstock selection and the grafting procedure itself. eOrganic Webinar. 2011.
Grafting for Disease Resistance in Heirloom Tomatoes. North Carolina State University. 2006.
Grafting of Vegetables to Increase Greenhouse Production. Masayuki Oda, College of Agriculture, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai Osaka 5998531. 1999.
Grafting Techniques for Greenhouse Tomatoes. University of Connecticut. 2005.
Grafting, Ohio State University Extension.
Grafting Tomato Plants. Ohio State University. Step-by-step video of cleft and Japanese grafting techniques. 2009.
Grafting tomatoes for organic open field and high tunnel production. David Francis, Ohio State University. Overview of tomato grafting with a focus on commercial rootstock performance and current tomato rootstock breeding research at Ohio State University. eOrganic Webinar. 2010.
Guidelines for Grafting. DeRuiter Seeds.
History and Technique of Tomato Grafting. North Carolina State Cooperative Extension. 2008.
Tomato Grafting – North Carolina State University
Tomato Grafting – Ohio State University
Vegetable Grafting – The University of Arizona
Watermelon Grafting – Clemson University
Watermelon Grafting – University of Florida
World Vegetable Center grafting technologies. Information and fact sheets about grafting tomatoes (2003), peppers (2009) and cucurbits.
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Cutting tomato scion material for splice grafting.
The healing chamber structure where plants are held for 7 days following grafting.
Grafted watermelon plant immediately after being transplanted into the field.