Grafted Plants

I know a few people on here grow grafted toms/cucs/aubergines/peppers. For interest they might like to look at Defland Nurseries (search organicplants) who also supply some heritage tomato varieties.

I think someday I'll try a grafting experiment myself, tomatoes maybe.  But I'm not sure I'm ready to buy plants yet.  I know the economic argument about yield can be made.  But I'm still not ready

I know the economic argument about yield can be made.

An additional argument is disease resistance and nutrient uptake - they can help if growing in a greenhouse border to avoid having to change the soil regularly.

Like all bought-in plants there is not so much choice as growing your own from seed ... so grafting your own might be necessary

It could be fun sometime when there's a bit more time.  I guess you'd get the plant for the rootstock started well ahead and the top stock normal time.  Moneymaker root and  a cherry tomato variety on top maybe.  But the comments about flavour are worrying I wonder if the root influences that? I guess its possible,

You can buy F1 seed of the rootstock, such as Arnold, and you are right that it needs to be sown slightly ahead of the scion variety.  likelihood is, for small scale production, that quite a lot will be wasted in trying to grow plants of equal thickness stems to make a successful graft, and rootstock seed isn't cheap ... so this won't be a cheap exercise, but it would get you a variety of your choice on a rootstock that suits your requirement for disease resistance / nutrient uptake from tired greenhouse soil / etc.

Not something I have done, but a chum of mine has been doing it for several years and has been very pleased with the results.