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Grafting tomato on eggplant rootstock

The tomato is one of the most popular and widely used vegetables in the world. Plants Tomatoes can grow in all the land that has a good structure and water housekeeping. In terms of mass production, tomato yields is very seasonal. Tomato farmers and gardeners seldom plant during the rainy season due to high risks of exposure to floods and Garden prevalence of pests and diseases of tomato plants.

Tomato plants may suffer flowers keep falling without production of fruit could be caused by Blossom End Rot, rot fruits – Mold inside tomatoes as they ripen, but outside the tomatoes are in good health, or early Blight – Leaves that curl, take a yellowish brown color and almost look like black spot found on rose blight bushes.Early is a fungus. Dark brown to black spots on leaves with concentric circles, usually starting on lower leaves. Leaves may become yellow and fall off the plant.

Various research groups around the glove in the plant industry have conducted a thorough search, and studied how to improve tomato production especially during the off season. In the Philippines, researchers at the Bureau of Plant Industry in Los Banos national research and development of crops, a research laboratory based in Los Banos Laguna, have discovered a

new technologies production cons-season tomatoes. This new technology of tomato production cons-season is now marketed in the region.

Farmers tomatoes, farmers and gardeners who want to earn more tomatoes harvested during the rainy season, may find this technology beneficial. Even gardeners Fans can find the technology of production of tomatoes out of season, nice as they continuously plant tomatoes in pots, boxes or other containers available, yields an easy and fresh tomatoes during

meals.

Grafting tomato on eggplant rootstock is one way to eliminate bacterial wilt, which is a very destructive disease of tomato. Research showed that grafted tomatoes in the rootstock of eggplant has a 21% higher than the ordinary tomato plants. The grafting process is simple. Sow seeds of eggplant rootstock 5-7 days before tomato. Graft when eggplant is 3-4 weeks. Cut the stock and Scion (The same size) with a sterile blade at 70-80 degree angles above the first two leaves (cotyledons). Insert rubber tubing, 10 mm long and 1-1.5 cm in diameter on the stock and cut part of the graft or splice contact with each other. Choosing Plants grafter inside the chamber humidity and plants for transfer to a cool, dry place with complete coverage black net for 4-7 days. The seedlings are then ready to be transplanted.

The eggplant variety used for rootstock is EG-203 that known and identified to be highly resistant to bacterial wilt and other soil organisms of origin of plant diseases tomatoes.

The tomato variety for scion must be a kind of indefinite period in which lattices must be provided for favorable vegetable development.

Try this tomato off-season production technology and enjoy a fruitful tomatoes growing on eggplant rootstock.

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