Cindy's experiment with grafting a Boxcar Willie tomato plant onto some disease-resistant tomato root stock is still proceeding, and we're now able to see some significant differences between the grafted Boxcar Willie and the ungrafted plant. (For a description of the experiment, see
http://plantagarden-itllgrowonyou.blogspot.com/2014/04/box-car-willie-tomato-experiment.html).
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| Two Boxcar Willie Plants, Grafted on the Left, Ungrafted on Right--July 1, 2014 |
Both plants are showing signs of serious stress; this has been a crappy year for tomatoes all the way around, not just for us but for most of the other vegetable gardeners Cindy knows, but the grafted plant is the clear winner of this experiment.
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| Both Boxcars on July 20, 2014 |
These two pictures show the progress of the disease on the ungrafted Boxcar Willie plant on the right; in three weeks the ungrafted plant has wilted considerably, while the grafted plant on the left is still putting out flowers and producing tomatoes.
Fortunately, we have had big, juicy tomatoes from both plants, but it's clear the ungrafted plant is now done.
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| Boxcar Willie Tomatoes |
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