I hope you enjoyed this little experiment! I've linked the Grafting knife & the book I recommended in the description :) Also, here's a Grafting video I made for beginners - ruclips.net/video/SjdkFrDvHBo/видео.html - It shows the process and results of grafting multiple varieties onto one Apple tree. Thanks so much for joining me and I hope you have a great rest of your day! -Kalem
Dude this is classy material. I think you could get more production out of it with a different grow setup and further experimentation on breeds of both Toms & Pots
Well done!! We did this in Horticulture lab and found that while you do grow both tomatoes and potatoes, it turns out that you get about half the normal amount of each. Apparently there is only so much photosynthate to go around. (I was the only student, however, to ever return the next semester and present our prof with both a tomato and potato!😉)
That's a shame and very interesting, although the advantage of space is very tempting, for example I grow in pots on my balcony and a small part on the roof so doing this would open half of the pots I would use to grow something else, maybe by supplementing nutrients through the growing season you could even the crops out or maybe pair grafting could give better the crops ej: russet potato + grape tomatoes & yellow fingerling + big juicy varietie of tomato.
@@ismaelrodriguez714 Maybe you could try just planting potatoes and tomatoes in the same pot and see whether you get a similar result? If they share nutrients anyway when you graft them then having them in the same pot might not be that different.
Hey Tom if you posted a reply video explaining the role of Photosynthate in this grafted organism i would totally watch it. Can you give me some advice about grafting male tree pollen producing branches on female flower producing trees?
Considering that the plant had to split all its energy between two different energy stores, the fact that you yielded some of both is really amazing. Goes to show that your gardening knowledge is awesome because you fought a real uphill battle with nature here!
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Theoretically you could graft multiple different nightshades and have a single plant that grows potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and even egg plants, so you can make an entire dinner off of produce grown on a single plant. Also if you can get your hands on fresh tobacco leafs they're perfect for grafting nightshades- tobacco is a nightshade too and wrapping the cut in its leafs helps the healing process.
I know, the “after” shots are so important to me. I just saw someone pruning plants and there is no evidence of the results in production, it makes me wonder if it worked. One video they pruned the leaves of the eggplant, the other removed the suckers. Which would would be best? I still don’t know
This is not just a fascinating experiment it's also a very well produced video. I'm glad you edited it into one video telling the whole story rather than stringing it out into a series as many would have done. As someone allergic to both potatoes and tomatoes the final result was something that would kill me, but the experiment was still fascinating.
If I were allergic to both tomatoes and potatoes I would go ahead and eat myself to death. It would be worth it. :-) I love hot peppers, any kind as long as they are hot, but I'm allergic to Capsaicin, It gives me horrible stomach cramps and pain. But being the dumb ass I am I eat them anyway. They are so worth the pain.
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As a kid I used to graft plants in my home garden. I remember a teacher telling me that this could be done. Your video brought it all back and I’m stoked to do some grafting!
Grafting is so cool!! In 10th grade, we had a week of *forestry practice* , where we grafted domesticated pear and apple scions to wild apple rootstock. Our guide/helper said it's more beneficial, because the wild plants are sturdier and can survive more easily. It's been 3 years now, and I wonder how they're doing!
Problem is... you can go for fruit or you can go for roots, but nature seldom ever lets both happen unless things are exactly right. Nice work on getting some of both, but I was expecting the potatoes to be small and few and that's where it ended up. There's a possibility if you really nailed the potatoes with Potash early on and the tomato with Phosphorous and Nitrogen (and again after the graft) that you could get a killer harvest from both ends.
👉 Well, I'm not much of a tomato consumer, but I _am_ a big fan of steak and potatoes. So my plan is to graft a cow to a potato plant. That way I'll have an organism that produces beef up top and potatoes down under! I'm confident it'll work. Somewhere I read that cows are scientifically categorized within the potato/tomato family. I previously tried grafting a chicken with a wheat plant, in order to create a one-stop shop for the raw materials to make a chicken sandwich. The graft didn't take though.....☹️
That was wild. I thought this was an April fools video as I've never heard of anything being grafted with a potato and then you turn this into one of the most comprehensive planting videos ever all the way from seed to grafting to growing to harvesting and then even to cooking
Outstanding video! Committing 8-10 months AND keeping all the clips organized, all while presenting such a polished presentation, you definitely earned a like, subscribe, share. I remember reading about this many years ago and that the total yield on a dry matter basis was similar enough that, for a small space, it's a reasonable way to plant once but still get two crops. Does that match up with your results?
i really enjoyed to watch 12 minute your video, very insightfull. i am much learn for planting any plants. thank you very much for making this video, sir 👌
Seeing the tomatoes become a smaller plant, I may try grafting with tomatillos instead. They can get really large, so it'd be better for my small garden next year! This technique is so fun, thanks for sharing.
There are two kinds of tomato: determinate and indeterminate. The tomatoes you used were determinate, and will always be a bush. You want the indeterminate size tomato, which just keeps growing, as long as the weather is nice.
Good point, I think with more vigorous leaf growth of an indeterminate tomato plant that had plenty of sun and water with well drained fertile soil you would be able to support more potatoes and tomatoes for the harvest.
@@Chris-ew9mh The root system will be the limiting factor, tom roots grow much faster and much larger than potato roots. If the root system is supporting abundant leaf growth, it wont have much extra capacity for blooms and fruit :) The other thing to consider is the time each crop takes to mature, i run my outdoor indeterminate toms until the frost gets them, typically early november.
😮 i cant believe it actually works and is so beautiful colors of the tomatoes and the awe 😊 potatoes you can actually grow both different colors . Thank you for sharing your planting ❤
I would love if you re-visited this with everything you've learned, like a single graft per potato plant, and see what difference it makes. Great video, thank you!
This is and awesome experiment. Im ready for spring so i can try this out. Im wondering the same thing one tomato plant on a stalk and leave one potato to grow. That way photosynthesis can occur on each plant 🧐🧐… so interesting!!
Also wondering in how the nutrition content on the fruits and the knolls changes compared to their "graft parents". You couldn't ask for a better 1:1 comparison, it's literally the same plant 😬 would love to see a scientific comparison
The ease by which the graft took, and the relatively productive plants considering the two fairly nutrient dense fruit-vegetables produced was very interesting. Thanks for showcasing this.
That was really cool. Thank you for all the work it took to condense all of that in to a great video. That size potato is common for a pot. They are like goldfish and grow to the size of their surrounding. A well fertilized soil and extra space between plants will give you some big potatoes. I had red potatoes this year that where as white as an apple inside and were as big as a large grapefruit. They were amazing mashed as well as cut.
This took me back 47 years ago, to the Duchy College, Cornwall. when we did the same grafts using potatoes and tomatoes. It was difficult finding the same thicknesses of stems to match so the cambium layers would align. I was amazed how quickly the grafts taken. We only let 4 trusses of tomatoes form and the potatoes produced were reduced too, as you’d expect. Interesting though.
Given your first name literally means “graft” in Serbo-Croatian, this rather intriguing experiment comes as no surprise 😅 In all seriousness, fantastic job with the tomato-potato crossover; I've found your videos nothing short of informative and captivating. The amount of effort you put into each project, as well as your passion for all things horticulture really do come through 🙂 A massive _green thumb_ up - keep up the awesome work! 👍
@@rubyliciousOG The word _kalem_ does, indeed, mean “[a] graft” in Serbo-Croatian (from Ottoman Turkish _kalem,_ “a vaccine”) -- both the verb _kalemiti_ (to graft, to make grafts) and the noun _kalemljenje_ (grafting) were derived from it 🙂 With regards to Kalem's name, it's just an amusing coincidence; there's no actual correlation 😅
This experiment was so much fun to watch. Great video. I think I will do this at my community garden plot so the other gardeners can enjoy this experiment as well.
Really cool concept, I remember first hearing about this many years ago, it's great to see you pull it off with and the process that came along with it. It feels weird because the tomatoes only last 1 season so the graft doesn't last that long unlike those of a fruit tree (although the tomatoes I grew in spring are somehow still producing fruit).
If you keep them warm tomatoes can last over winter I have one that is still flowering in late July and a 2 year old silverbeet the longest I've had a tomato growing inside was 2 and a half years before I forgot to water it
@@LostSoulNexus Hmm that's strange cause this year was particularly cold and wet and some of my tomatoes are still around. Do they still fruit well after the second year when compared to freshly planted ones?
Indeterminate varieties will for sure grow untill the see frost, if you have a greenhouse or can bring potted plants inside. Alternatively you can trim off suckers once they get a little larger and pot them continuously constantly growing new plants from the same plant, again provided you have a way to keep them warm enough and lit enough.
This was your best video out of a long list of amazing content. Absolutely fascinating for anyone but as someone thats been growing produce for years i've never even considered this as a thing. Outstanding !
Good job!It is a very creative gardening, and i will try to do it very soon when the Spring come, it is really fun to watch!And God bless you!I am watching from California, USA.
i feel like potato itself is quite demanding on the root (to produce more potatoes) while tomato is the oposite, it is really fruit heavy, so you got less yield just because the plants had to split up.. love this idea and it's fun! i allways wanted to have one "merlin's tree" (the wizard merlin had a tree that yield all kinds of fruits) i know that's impossible to get an apple tree that grows grapes (sadly xD ) but it would be awesome to have different kinds of citrus or apples + plums
Never knew you could graft tomatoes and potatoes together all on one plant, like some Frankenstein experiment. I usually clone my tomatoes, sweet basil and sweet potato plants all from cuttings. I learned something new today thanks. 🙏🏽😁
instead of tomatoes, you could also graft aubergines (eggplant), bell peppers, and chilis, or indeed you could graft multiple solanaceous fruits (they aren't 'vegetables' per se) on the same potato stock
When I was a kid I was in charge of picking the tomatoes. My mother thought 2 rows of steak and 2 rows of cherry tomatoes would be good. There were way too many for a small family. This technique would have been the correction factor we needed. I picked a 5 gallon bucket of tomatoes every day!
Very interesting experiment! Both plants seem to have been stunted somewhat.But what a great great way to teach kids about grafting. Both being in the Solanum family is key. I know some kids that would be thrilled to try this. 😉🥰
I liked the video, I've been grafting for many years, my mother taught me when I was a child growing up in the 50s and 60s, most of my grafting experience has been with avocado, however since moving to Masterton, we have been grafting our fruit trees. There was an old fashioned apple tree, on the property, which I have successfully grafted with a granny delicious, and an old fashioned pear, all the grafts have produced fruit, the two apple grafts have been successful for two fruiting seasons, and the pear had seven fruit, that we harvested. I have grafted a nectarine onto an heirloom golden Queen peach tree, three days ago , and I am doing a another pear onto the apple today.
@@PierreLucSex well from what I know due to the way fruits reproduce there's a really high chance the offspring taste terrible so grafting is required for any large scaled orchard. So if you have a moral objection to grafting I'd recommend you don't eat any store bought produce. Although I would like to hear why you think it's monstrous. To my sensitivities it seems pretty tame. Plants can't feel pain so they are not concious of harm during the process, it's not like sewing to animals together. The process is obviously safe for humans, the 2 parts keep growing as they were with no change. But that's just what I think, why do you object to grafting so heavily?
@@notarobot5946 well from a human point of view it is monstruous, but as you stated the plant is not harmed. Though you basically trick roots to give birth to fruits that are not related, profiting from a parasiting relationship you orchestrated. Pretty tame ? Yeah we can only imagine. Thank you for your opinion though and the time. I'm really curious and respectful of your craft/knowledge.
@@PierreLucSex Haha I guess you're right, it is a parasitic relationship. I never thought of it that way. Although I don't think the plant cares too much about being exploited. Anyway thanks for your insight it definitely was an interesting read.
I had no clue this is possible. As always I enjoy seeing you in your wonderful presentations about horticulture and absorbing your personality energy patterns. Very nice.
I'm so inspired to try a graft! Such an informative/entertaining video. Thank you Kalem. 💚🙏🏽 I'm going to start calling them chips & sauce going forward 😉
Hi, this looked like fun so I had a go. All my grafts worked well. I did not use a plastic bag . I used a polymer spray. The brand we have in Australia is Yates Droughtshield. I am really looking forward to getting my first tomatoes!
It's kinda amazing how plants can support each other cuz you have to think the potatoes were giving the tomatoes minerals and water from their Roots and the tomatoes were giving the potatoes food from their leaves
They aren't actually supporting each other. Tomatoes and potatoes are competing for limited resources. Both suffer and are lower quality than individual plants.
I've never tried it but a gardening book I had in the sixties showed you taking a potato and carving out a round hole all the way through the middle. Then you take a tomato seedling and plant it dirt and all in the center of the potato and then plant the potato in the ground. That's supposed to give you tomatoes on the top and potatoes on the bottom.
i'm not sure why youtube recommended me this video, but i enjoyed watching it! potatoes and tomatoes are cheap staple foods that i eat every day, so i thought it was weird and fun to see that you could grow both on the same plant!
I really like your content. I'm a woody ornamental horticulture guy who does landscape design, so I don't venture into gardening much, but you made this look like so much fun. Looking forward to seeing more of what you have to offer (this was my first video to see of yours).
I have thought of doing this many times, but I am motivated to really do it. Spring 2023 for sure, but since I grow some things including tomatoes on an enclosed deck over winter I may get something going before then. It would be interesting to see if larger tomato varieties, such as beefsteak, would produce different results. I may try grafting a potato to a tomato root, just to see if tomato roots support potato tops. Cool video. - Cheers
Wow!! You're video's are easy to watch - I'm so proud to see a fellow Kiwi doing well on RUclips bringing content to the world by doing what you love! This was such an eye opener for me. I live in Sydney (temperament zone) in a 2 bedroom 2 storey villa style apartment with 2 balconies downstairs and 2 balconies in each bedroom 4 balconies in total- Both bedroom balconies upstairs are above each balcony downstairs. One set of up/downstairs balcony faces north? receives most sunlight in afternoon and one set of balconies faces south receiving a lot of sunlight...I'm ging to try growing these on my southern balconies and also in some of my common (shared) garden area's in my small complex. Even though not giving as much yeild it will be perfect for me to be able. to grow both my fave yellow + low acid tomato varieties and gourmet potato varieties (fingerling + Kipfler) - as well as still be able to all my salad veggies + grow my herbs and flowers in a small space. I also intend to give your fijoa and Perisimmon video a go as well as the bottle gourds, (I ordered mini gourd seeds and can be grown in our shared space garden).
I really enjoyed your video and the information you shared. Tomatoes like lots of root growth. Trenching them makes them stronger and bushier. Potatoes need their leaves to multiply and like their stems hilled. In future if you want to experiment again. Start both the plants earlier, graft earlier and once the graft has taken hold, add soil up to the base of the leaves of the tomato plant. This will encourage root growth and you will have a healthier sturdier tomato plant. You're on the right track. Keep going. May the force be with you! ☮️❤️🙂🙏🌈
this was so cool to see. I've never thought about grafting these two plants, but it makes a ton of sense! Would you be interested in trying a tomato and eggplant/aubergine graft?
I had potato beetles ravage potato plants this year, and I felt bad dumping insecticide on them to fix it. However Japanese beetles and potato beetles left the tomatoes alone. This seems like a perfect organic solution
I think this is the biggest reason to do this. With tomatoes on the top, you won't get potato bugs. I haven't had probably with any insect pests with my tomatoes. Plus you get two crops in the same footprint. Potatoes seem to just take up so much space with their bush, but you get nothing from the top of them taking that space.
This is fantastic!❤ Almost thought it was a scam😂 Thank you for sharing, and yes, it all tastes better from the garden😊. I like small potatoes better than big ones. Will try this next year. Thanks so much again, your explaining and demonstrating was so helpful, awesome video!
Perfect timing! I'm just getting prepared in Nelson to plant spuds and about ten heirloom varieties of tomatoes. I'll also have to get the grafting book as I'd love to graft different peaches on to my BB peaches
I figure that tomato branches grafted on potato roots will probably produce less fruit overall because the plant will have to constantly balance priorities between roots and fruit when it comes to deciding where to store the photosynthesized sugar. But! I also reckon that potato-based tomatoes will have an extreme edge over those standing on their own roots when it comes to buffering the stress of high fluctuation in soil humidity on hot days, something that especially plagues potted tomatoes.
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Brilliant mate! I would NEVER have known you could even do this!! Well done great experiment! I might just try to do this maybe in doors over winter even under grow lights?? Just a question based on your results, Do you think you lose harvest (overall per given space) than growing say; 1x pot of tomatoes and 1x pot of potatoes as opposed to 2x pots of grafted? Either way great video and demonstration mate those chips as tom sauce looked pukka mate! Cheers from London England 👍😎🏴
For this particular graft project, your yields of both the tomatoes and potatoes will be lower than if you had individual plants, as the plant is attempting to store energy in its roots as well as set out fruits. The plant can only produce a certain amount of energy with the resources it has available.
Very interesting experiment. I'm happy to have learned something new from you. I have a quick question for you. Do you know what is the warmest weather where regular potatoes that you grow (not sweet potatos) can grow? Can the ones you grow be able to be grown in tropical, i.e., warm, weather?
I find it a very bright idea when you grow edible plants on a small surface such as a balcony …! Maybe on point too for some indoor gardening under good light conditions (?)
That's really interesting. I wonder... The potato size may have been a nutritional limit between the two plant networks. You also mentioned you couldn't mound the potatoes because of the graft position. Have you considered a higher grafting position? Allowing some potato branch & leaf low down, and stem for mounding, while having a tomato top?
Cramming them three to a pot did the plants no favour and got them off to a bad start, as they were competing for nutrients and minerals. Trebling up on those would have definitely been detrimental. Also, the chitting process wasn't organised. The more eyes on the seed potato the more abundant the tubers will be, however, they'll remain small.
I hope you enjoyed this little experiment! I've linked the Grafting knife & the book I recommended in the description :)
Also, here's a Grafting video I made for beginners - ruclips.net/video/SjdkFrDvHBo/видео.html - It shows the process and results of grafting multiple varieties onto one Apple tree.
Thanks so much for joining me and I hope you have a great rest of your day!
-Kalem
I really enjoyed this video ! You have inspired me to someday start my own vegetable garden when I’m old and grey hahaha
Perfect for Musk's Mars (no, not the bars!) 😆
PS: and not forgetting to graft a paprika onto the 🥔 as well.
Dude this is classy material. I think you could get more production out of it with a different grow setup and further experimentation on breeds of both Toms & Pots
I love these timeline video's mate.
Really inspires me to sell up and buy a property to do my own gardening.
Why not try it again, but make sure to cover the graft for maximum rooting..?
Lol that video contained everything all in one, seed sowing, grafting, planting out, harvesting, cooking recipe and a tasting 😲😲
Very true Brett 👍
Haha always try to include as much as I can! Hope you liked it :)
@@TheKiwiGrower very cool, thanks for doing it
I honestly love all in one video. Others videos make you mad.
Is that an elden ring reference?
Well done!! We did this in Horticulture lab and found that while you do grow both tomatoes and potatoes, it turns out that you get about half the normal amount of each. Apparently there is only so much photosynthate to go around. (I was the only student, however, to ever return the next semester and present our prof with both a tomato and potato!😉)
That's a shame and very interesting, although the advantage of space is very tempting, for example I grow in pots on my balcony and a small part on the roof so doing this would open half of the pots I would use to grow something else, maybe by supplementing nutrients through the growing season you could even the crops out or maybe pair grafting could give better the crops ej: russet potato + grape tomatoes & yellow fingerling + big juicy varietie of tomato.
@@ismaelrodriguez714 Maybe you could try just planting potatoes and tomatoes in the same pot and see whether you get a similar result? If they share nutrients anyway when you graft them then having them in the same pot might not be that different.
Enjoyed watching the video good idea if your space is limited thankyou 😀👏
It would be interesting to create a plant with higher energy conversion. Some solar panels can get 50% yield whereas cholorplasts only do around 6%
Hey Tom if you posted a reply video explaining the role of Photosynthate in this grafted organism i would totally watch it. Can you give me some advice about grafting male tree pollen producing branches on female flower producing trees?
Considering that the plant had to split all its energy between two different energy stores, the fact that you yielded some of both is really amazing. Goes to show that your gardening knowledge is awesome because you fought a real uphill battle with nature here!
For a second my mind broke when he said the same planet
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Theoretically you could graft multiple different nightshades and have a single plant that grows potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and even egg plants, so you can make an entire dinner off of produce grown on a single plant. Also if you can get your hands on fresh tobacco leafs they're perfect for grafting nightshades- tobacco is a nightshade too and wrapping the cut in its leafs helps the healing process.
wait eggplant and peppers are nightshade? I did not know that.
And grow it on some animal ;P
Thats a tomacco!!
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Tis is not possible. You can do that with multiple plants not on single plant!
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Really love how you don't leave us hanging, and tell the whole story. Worth the wait.😁👍👍
I know, the “after” shots are so important to me. I just saw someone pruning plants and there is no evidence of the results in production, it makes me wonder if it worked. One video they pruned the leaves of the eggplant, the other removed the suckers. Which would
would be best? I still don’t know
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its so cool what you can do with nature, I think I found my new answer to "what do you wanna do when you grow up"
That's so awesome! :)
This is not just a fascinating experiment it's also a very well produced video. I'm glad you edited it into one video telling the whole story rather than stringing it out into a series as many would have done. As someone allergic to both potatoes and tomatoes the final result was something that would kill me, but the experiment was still fascinating.
If I were allergic to both tomatoes and potatoes I would go ahead and eat myself to death. It would be worth it. :-) I love hot peppers, any kind as long as they are hot, but I'm allergic to Capsaicin, It gives me horrible stomach cramps and pain. But being the dumb ass I am I eat them anyway. They are so worth the pain.
@@radamson1 Try making a Homeopathic preparation of Capsaicin.... that could relieve your allergy
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At this point am afraid you are allergic to your own toes... Gerrit? Haha sorry I had to
You must also be allergic to other members of the _Belladonna_ family, such as aubergine/eggplant and peppers.
My heart melted when he said if he could share some with us he would. Keep making the top quality content
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As a kid I used to graft plants in my home garden. I remember a teacher telling me that this could be done. Your video brought it all back and I’m stoked to do some grafting!
Absolutely I too heard my teacher telling me
Grafting is so cool!! In 10th grade, we had a week of *forestry practice* , where we grafted domesticated pear and apple scions to wild apple rootstock. Our guide/helper said it's more beneficial, because the wild plants are sturdier and can survive more easily. It's been 3 years now, and I wonder how they're doing!
I have scads of crabapples on my property. They are remarkably hardy.
The amount of time and effort you put into your videos really shows, such a pleasure to watch. And what a cool concept!
The BEST gardening video ever from start (seed) + grafting to harvest all in one video. Short, compact to the point and no BS! Thank you!
Wow, thank you so much for not making this a 12 part series. There was something fascinating every minute of the way. Subscribed!
You have blown my mind, sir. You have made one of the best videos I have ever watched on RUclips. Well done.
You know it's a success when you keep dropping one. He didn't even know what variety was growing and just grew to harvest. Awesome. I gotta try this.
You did great grafting and documenting the entire process over months of work. Congrats on your success
Problem is... you can go for fruit or you can go for roots, but nature seldom ever lets both happen unless things are exactly right. Nice work on getting some of both, but I was expecting the potatoes to be small and few and that's where it ended up. There's a possibility if you really nailed the potatoes with Potash early on and the tomato with Phosphorous and Nitrogen (and again after the graft) that you could get a killer harvest from both ends.
👉 Well, I'm not much of a tomato consumer, but I _am_ a big fan of steak and potatoes. So my plan is to graft a cow to a potato plant. That way I'll have an organism that produces beef up top and potatoes down under! I'm confident it'll work. Somewhere I read that cows are scientifically categorized within the potato/tomato family.
I previously tried grafting a chicken with a wheat plant, in order to create a one-stop shop for the raw materials to make a chicken sandwich. The graft didn't take though.....☹️
@@HighlanderNorth1 🤣🤣
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Try beefsteak tomatoes. 😉🤪😂
@@HighlanderNorth1I tried watering my chickens to make chicken soup. But it didn't work.
@HighlanderNorth1 , you can try shoving the potato plant in the cow's arse. By that, the plant can get nutrients from its manure 😅😂
That was wild. I thought this was an April fools video as I've never heard of anything being grafted with a potato and then you turn this into one of the most comprehensive planting videos ever all the way from seed to grafting to growing to harvesting and then even to cooking
Haha yeah it does sounds a bit too good to be true 😅. Thanks for the comment!
Outstanding video! Committing 8-10 months AND keeping all the clips organized, all while presenting such a polished presentation, you definitely earned a like, subscribe, share.
I remember reading about this many years ago and that the total yield on a dry matter basis was similar enough that, for a small space, it's a reasonable way to plant once but still get two crops. Does that match up with your results?
i really enjoyed to watch 12 minute your video, very insightfull. i am much learn for planting any plants. thank you very much for making this video, sir 👌
Seeing the tomatoes become a smaller plant, I may try grafting with tomatillos instead. They can get really large, so it'd be better for my small garden next year! This technique is so fun, thanks for sharing.
Smaller plant ??? I've never had several meters long potato plants, if you get small tomato plants, you're not doing it right
There are two kinds of tomato: determinate and indeterminate. The tomatoes you used were determinate, and will always be a bush. You want the indeterminate size tomato, which just keeps growing, as long as the weather is nice.
Wow 😳 I find this really interesting to watch. So amazing! Good job👍
Good point, I think with more vigorous leaf growth of an indeterminate tomato plant that had plenty of sun and water with well drained fertile soil you would be able to support more potatoes and tomatoes for the harvest.
@@Chris-ew9mh
The root system will be the limiting factor, tom roots grow much faster and much larger than potato roots. If the root system is supporting abundant leaf growth, it wont have much extra capacity for blooms and fruit :) The other thing to consider is the time each crop takes to mature, i run my outdoor indeterminate toms until the frost gets them, typically early november.
😮 i cant believe it actually works and is so beautiful colors of the tomatoes and the awe 😊 potatoes you can actually grow both different colors .
Thank you for sharing your planting ❤
At last, a legit all in one DIY video I can actually do at home.. love it 🤌🏾
Hopefully the tomatoes won't be toxic
I'm impressed in the consistent effort that you put in the 6-8 months filming and narrating the video. Incredible channel!
You r the coolest gardener with good results that's what we want to see keep it up I tell alot of people to watch you instead of asking me
I would love if you re-visited this with everything you've learned, like a single graft per potato plant, and see what difference it makes. Great video, thank you!
This is and awesome experiment. Im ready for spring so i can try this out. Im wondering the same thing one tomato plant on a stalk and leave one potato to grow. That way photosynthesis can occur on each plant 🧐🧐… so interesting!!
You should try it out too, and see how everyone’s compares with each others?!
Also wondering in how the nutrition content on the fruits and the knolls changes compared to their "graft parents". You couldn't ask for a better 1:1 comparison, it's literally the same plant 😬 would love to see a scientific comparison
I'm 68 years old and just learned something new. I would never have dreamt of doing that. Thank you 🙏🙏🇬🇧
Finally someone who shows all of it and in a clear way. . Watched 5 or 6 videos before we found this. Thank you!
The ease by which the graft took, and the relatively productive plants considering the two fairly nutrient dense fruit-vegetables produced was very interesting. Thanks for showcasing this.
That blew my mind, never thought about grafting them together. Also a way to save some space in the garden. Well done I enjoyed the video.
It's like throwing out your wife from the window just to have a little more room in the bedroom.
Stupid idea.
That was really cool. Thank you for all the work it took to condense all of that in to a great video. That size potato is common for a pot. They are like goldfish and grow to the size of their surrounding. A well fertilized soil and extra space between plants will give you some big potatoes. I had red potatoes this year that where as white as an apple inside and were as big as a large grapefruit. They were amazing mashed as well as cut.
This took me back 47 years ago, to the Duchy College, Cornwall. when we did the same grafts using potatoes and tomatoes. It was difficult finding the same thicknesses of stems to match so the cambium layers would align. I was amazed how quickly the grafts taken. We only let 4 trusses of tomatoes form and the potatoes produced were reduced too, as you’d expect. Interesting though.
Good old Stoke Climsland!
Given your first name literally means “graft” in Serbo-Croatian, this rather intriguing experiment comes as no surprise 😅 In all seriousness, fantastic job with the tomato-potato crossover; I've found your videos nothing short of informative and captivating. The amount of effort you put into each project, as well as your passion for all things horticulture really do come through 🙂 A massive _green thumb_ up - keep up the awesome work! 👍
Never heard that word being used for grafting. Might be a Serbia only thing?
@@rubyliciousOG The word _kalem_ does, indeed, mean “[a] graft” in Serbo-Croatian (from Ottoman Turkish _kalem,_ “a vaccine”) -- both the verb _kalemiti_ (to graft, to make grafts) and the noun _kalemljenje_ (grafting) were derived from it 🙂
With regards to Kalem's name, it's just an amusing coincidence; there's no actual correlation 😅
@@Aleksa_Milicevic 'Kalam' means graft in Hindi too.
That’s so interesting! How bizarre, but I like it 😁. I’m glad you enjoyed the video :)
@@Deepaksingh-xq4fg Thats likely where it stems from. A bunch of words are almost identical to sanskrit.
This experiment was so much fun to watch. Great video. I think I will do this at my community garden plot so the other gardeners can enjoy this experiment as well.
This is a complete video, all the processes from start to finish. Amazing job.
Mate, I really like how chilled your videos are and creative. Amazing content, not overly edited, keep it up 👍
G'day from Perth
Cheers Sami, really appreciate that feedback. Kia ora from NZ :)
Am from Kenya and have never seen this. Welldone i will surely try this
That's really cool, I love how you always show the whole process from start to finish too.
This is mind blowing! I'm gunna try this next year. I have a garden in Japan and space is a big issue. Now I can double my production! Thanks.
Very cool. I studied Botany at the UW about 50 years ago, and grafting was my passion.
Really cool concept, I remember first hearing about this many years ago, it's great to see you pull it off with and the process that came along with it. It feels weird because the tomatoes only last 1 season so the graft doesn't last that long unlike those of a fruit tree (although the tomatoes I grew in spring are somehow still producing fruit).
If you keep them warm tomatoes can last over winter I have one that is still flowering in late July and a 2 year old silverbeet the longest I've had a tomato growing inside was 2 and a half years before I forgot to water it
@@LostSoulNexus Hmm that's strange cause this year was particularly cold and wet and some of my tomatoes are still around. Do they still fruit well after the second year when compared to freshly planted ones?
My tomatoes are also still fruiting for some reason. Quite plentiful, too. And I'm in a pretty cold place but it's been fairly warm lately.
@@TobyJin yea there are some tomato plants that have been fruiting for years in greenhouses.
Indeterminate varieties will for sure grow untill the see frost, if you have a greenhouse or can bring potted plants inside.
Alternatively you can trim off suckers once they get a little larger and pot them continuously constantly growing new plants from the same plant, again provided you have a way to keep them warm enough and lit enough.
This was your best video out of a long list of amazing content. Absolutely fascinating for anyone but as someone thats been growing produce for years i've never even considered this as a thing. Outstanding !
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that :)
Good job!It is a very creative gardening, and i will try to do it very soon when the Spring come, it is really fun to watch!And God bless you!I am watching from California, USA.
i feel like potato itself is quite demanding on the root (to produce more potatoes) while tomato is the oposite, it is really fruit heavy, so you got less yield just because the plants had to split up..
love this idea and it's fun! i allways wanted to have one "merlin's tree" (the wizard merlin had a tree that yield all kinds of fruits) i know that's impossible to get an apple tree that grows grapes (sadly xD ) but it would be awesome to have different kinds of citrus or apples + plums
Could you not encourage the grape Vines to grow on the tree
There is a tree with over 40 types of fruit. But like here they have to be similar.
Never knew you could graft tomatoes and potatoes together all on one plant, like some Frankenstein experiment. I usually clone my tomatoes, sweet basil and sweet potato plants all from cuttings. I learned something new today thanks. 🙏🏽😁
instead of tomatoes, you could also graft aubergines (eggplant), bell peppers, and chilis, or indeed you could graft multiple solanaceous fruits (they aren't 'vegetables' per se) on the same potato stock
Very creative vegetable farming. Potato + Tomato = Pomato. Wow...Please keep it up.
When I was a kid I was in charge of picking the tomatoes. My mother thought 2 rows of steak and 2 rows of cherry tomatoes would be good. There were way too many for a small family. This technique would have been the correction factor we needed. I picked a 5 gallon bucket of tomatoes every day!
Very interesting experiment! Both plants seem to have been stunted somewhat.But what a great great way to teach kids about grafting. Both being in the Solanum family is key. I know some kids that would be thrilled to try this. 😉🥰
I liked the video, I've been grafting for many years, my mother taught me when I was a child growing up in the 50s and 60s, most of my grafting experience has been with avocado, however since moving to Masterton, we have been grafting our fruit trees. There was an old fashioned apple tree, on the property, which I have successfully grafted with a granny delicious, and an old fashioned pear, all the grafts have produced fruit, the two apple grafts have been successful for two fruiting seasons, and the pear had seven fruit, that we harvested. I have grafted a nectarine onto an heirloom golden Queen peach tree, three days ago , and I am doing a another pear onto the apple today.
Can you explain how it is not monstruous.
@@PierreLucSex well from what I know due to the way fruits reproduce there's a really high chance the offspring taste terrible so grafting is required for any large scaled orchard. So if you have a moral objection to grafting I'd recommend you don't eat any store bought produce.
Although I would like to hear why you think it's monstrous. To my sensitivities it seems pretty tame. Plants can't feel pain so they are not concious of harm during the process, it's not like sewing to animals together. The process is obviously safe for humans, the 2 parts keep growing as they were with no change.
But that's just what I think, why do you object to grafting so heavily?
@@notarobot5946 well from a human point of view it is monstruous, but as you stated the plant is not harmed. Though you basically trick roots to give birth to fruits that are not related, profiting from a parasiting relationship you orchestrated.
Pretty tame ? Yeah we can only imagine.
Thank you for your opinion though and the time. I'm really curious and respectful of your craft/knowledge.
@@PierreLucSex Haha I guess you're right, it is a parasitic relationship. I never thought of it that way. Although I don't think the plant cares too much about being exploited. Anyway thanks for your insight it definitely was an interesting read.
This video deserve millions of views. The amount of effort he put in this video is incredible. You got a new subscriber 😃
This is one of the best videos I have ever seen and I don't give a .... about food and plants. Amazing job, amazing guy! 😲🤩
I had no clue this is possible. As always I enjoy seeing you in your wonderful presentations about horticulture and absorbing your personality energy patterns. Very nice.
Cheers Vance, that means a lot :)
Really cool man! Never would have thought this could work! 🤯I might have to try this, just for the fun of it next spring.
watching your videos make me so happy and i couldnt tell you why...
I love the small tiny potatoes vs large ones. Those are always so tender and tasty when they roast
The amount of time and patience put in making this video, amazing!❤️
Wauu very impressed how can I get the grafting manual book.
I'm so inspired to try a graft! Such an informative/entertaining video. Thank you Kalem. 💚🙏🏽 I'm going to start calling them chips & sauce going forward 😉
Hi, this looked like fun so I had a go. All my grafts worked well. I did not use a plastic bag . I used a polymer spray. The brand we have in Australia is Yates Droughtshield. I am really looking forward to getting my first tomatoes!
You are a teacher
Your are farmer
Your are a chef
You are a RUclipsr wow
It's kinda amazing how plants can support each other cuz you have to think the potatoes were giving the tomatoes minerals and water from their Roots and the tomatoes were giving the potatoes food from their leaves
Human is 83% lizard and 63% tomato same dna
lets all bully the freak plant
They aren't actually supporting each other. Tomatoes and potatoes are competing for limited resources. Both suffer and are lower quality than individual plants.
SubuhanAllah
@@jussikankinen9409 We're all just minor variants of the basic Life algorithm. It's why we can all eat each other.
Another great video! Thanks Kalem that was super interesting I'm definitely going to try that out this spring.
Cheers Mark, let me know how it goes!
After 6 years studying and practicing horticulture, I couldn't agree more.
What a fun experiment! Thanks for sharing. I'm not crazy about regular ketchup, but I can't imagine how good homegrown ketchup would be.
That was amazing! I never knew a graft of this kind would be possible and produce such results!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW THAT'S REALLY COOL
I've never tried it but a gardening book I had in the sixties showed you taking a potato and carving out a round hole all the way through the middle. Then you take a tomato seedling and plant it dirt and all in the center of the potato and then plant the potato in the ground. That's supposed to give you tomatoes on the top and potatoes on the bottom.
Very interesting I would love more information on this if possible
i'm not sure why youtube recommended me this video, but i enjoyed watching it! potatoes and tomatoes are cheap staple foods that i eat every day, so i thought it was weird and fun to see that you could grow both on the same plant!
I really like your content. I'm a woody ornamental horticulture guy who does landscape design, so I don't venture into gardening much, but you made this look like so much fun. Looking forward to seeing more of what you have to offer (this was my first video to see of yours).
Lol, amazing!
Thank you very much for this video!
I have thought of doing this many times, but I am motivated to really do it. Spring 2023 for sure, but since I grow some things including tomatoes on an enclosed deck over winter I may get something going before then.
It would be interesting to see if larger tomato varieties, such as beefsteak, would produce different results. I may try grafting a potato to a tomato root, just to see if tomato roots support potato tops.
Cool video. - Cheers
I suspect you gain poor harvests with beefsteak and potatoes.
Legit video. Honest and refreshingly good. Loved it
I'm so fascinated by grafting, but this combo never even entered my mind....know what I'm doing this spring! Love from Western Australia x
Thank you for putting so much effort into this! So interesting.
Wow!! You're video's are easy to watch - I'm so proud to see a fellow Kiwi doing well on RUclips bringing content to the world by doing what you love! This was such an eye opener for me. I live in Sydney (temperament zone) in a 2 bedroom 2 storey villa style apartment with 2 balconies downstairs and 2 balconies in each bedroom 4 balconies in total- Both bedroom balconies upstairs are above each balcony downstairs. One set of up/downstairs balcony faces north? receives most sunlight in afternoon and one set of balconies faces south receiving a lot of sunlight...I'm ging to try growing these on my southern balconies and also in some of my common (shared) garden area's in my small complex. Even though not giving as much yeild it will be perfect for me to be able. to grow both my fave yellow + low acid tomato varieties and gourmet potato varieties (fingerling + Kipfler) - as well as still be able to all my salad veggies + grow my herbs and flowers in a small space. I also intend to give your fijoa and Perisimmon video a go as well as the bottle gourds, (I ordered mini gourd seeds and can be grown in our shared space garden).
I really enjoyed your video and the information you shared. Tomatoes like lots of root growth. Trenching them makes them stronger and bushier. Potatoes need their leaves to multiply and like their stems hilled. In future if you want to experiment again. Start both the plants earlier, graft earlier and once the graft has taken hold, add soil up to the base of the leaves of the tomato plant. This will encourage root growth and you will have a healthier sturdier tomato plant. You're on the right track. Keep going. May the force be with you!
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You really put a lot of effort for your videos✨️ And they're amaziiing😊 Hope you reach more subscribers soon bcs you deserve it💫
Thanks so much! :)
Great grafting and growing of both tomatoes and potatoes!! ..I think it's pretty cool that you can grow both which is what you set out to achieve!👍😀
Would love to see a round two of this with a single potato/tomato stalk to see if you can improve the yeild!
this was so cool to see. I've never thought about grafting these two plants, but it makes a ton of sense! Would you be interested in trying a tomato and eggplant/aubergine graft?
Thanks!
Thanks so much for the support!
I've been wanting to try this. It's nice to know that it works. Thanks for the video! That ketchup looked good. Could you share the recipe?
Hey, I've just added the recipe to the video description :)
Thekiwigrower is just too big brain 🧠
This is amazing! Can't believe it worked! Those 🥔 wedges looked delicious 😋
Totally amazing. Especially loved that you did the whole experiment from scratch. I will share this with my FB gardening page.
Thanks so much :)
I had potato beetles ravage potato plants this year, and I felt bad dumping insecticide on them to fix it. However Japanese beetles and potato beetles left the tomatoes alone. This seems like a perfect organic solution
I think this is the biggest reason to do this. With tomatoes on the top, you won't get potato bugs. I haven't had probably with any insect pests with my tomatoes. Plus you get two crops in the same footprint. Potatoes seem to just take up so much space with their bush, but you get nothing from the top of them taking that space.
This is fantastic!❤
Almost thought it was a scam😂
Thank you for sharing, and yes, it all tastes better from the garden😊. I like small potatoes better than big ones. Will try this next year. Thanks so much again, your explaining and demonstrating was so helpful, awesome video!
Perfect timing!
I'm just getting prepared in Nelson to plant spuds and about ten heirloom varieties of tomatoes.
I'll also have to get the grafting book as I'd love to graft different peaches on to my BB peaches
Nice, sounds good :)
I figure that tomato branches grafted on potato roots will probably produce less fruit overall because the plant will have to constantly balance priorities between roots and fruit when it comes to deciding where to store the photosynthesized sugar. But! I also reckon that potato-based tomatoes will have an extreme edge over those standing on their own roots when it comes to buffering the stress of high fluctuation in soil humidity on hot days, something that especially plagues potted tomatoes.
Awesome Job, Perfect Explanation @ each step & every step. Also How at each step you were explaining why you did or didn’t do whatever… I Loved the Video & Found It easy to understand & follow along without having to keep hitting the back button just to hear what you said! ( I easily get annoyed by other creators that talk to fast about irrelevant information, only confusing the viewer) But you were Perfect! I’m Happy I found your channel & Look forward to watching the rest of your LIBRARY!! 👏🏼👏🏼😊
Brilliant mate! I would NEVER have known you could even do this!! Well done great experiment! I might just try to do this maybe in doors over winter even under grow lights??
Just a question based on your results, Do you think you lose harvest (overall per given space) than growing say; 1x pot of tomatoes and 1x pot of potatoes as opposed to 2x pots of grafted?
Either way great video and demonstration mate those chips as tom sauce looked pukka mate!
Cheers from London England 👍😎🏴
This would be perfect for someone with not a lot of space but wants to grow! Awesome vid.
That's pretty interesting!
What else can be grafted? I'd be curious to see more
What can not be grafted? is a better question I think
Fantastic video! I'm definitely doing this in my next growing season. Thanks!
Thanks for stopping by Scott. 😊🌎✨
this channel will definitely be one of my favourites! I'm so glad I ran into you
Hey love your videos but I'm curious; Are there any cons for grafting?
For this particular graft project, your yields of both the tomatoes and potatoes will be lower than if you had individual plants, as the plant is attempting to store energy in its roots as well as set out fruits. The plant can only produce a certain amount of energy with the resources it has available.
@@cr4zyj4ck can they produce more energy if given more resources? Or is that not the limiting factor?
Very interesting experiment. I'm happy to have learned something new from you. I have a quick question for you. Do you know what is the warmest weather where regular potatoes that you grow (not sweet potatos) can grow? Can the ones you grow be able to be grown in tropical, i.e., warm, weather?
I find it a very bright idea when you grow edible plants on a small surface such as a balcony …! Maybe on point too for some indoor gardening under good light conditions (?)
That's really interesting.
I wonder... The potato size may have been a nutritional limit between the two plant networks. You also mentioned you couldn't mound the potatoes because of the graft position.
Have you considered a higher grafting position? Allowing some potato branch & leaf low down, and stem for mounding, while having a tomato top?
Cramming them three to a pot did the plants no favour and got them off to a bad start, as they were competing for nutrients and minerals.
Trebling up on those would have definitely been detrimental.
Also, the chitting process wasn't organised.
The more eyes on the seed potato the more abundant the tubers will be, however, they'll remain small.