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Hector:
Hi folks
I had quite a bit of success with grafted peppers and chillie plants . However, I'd like to try some preferred varieties on a graft. Have anyone tried this? Wondering re varieties to use as grafts and how successful folk have been in doing this.
Thank you
Jackie

Hector:
Found this. Looks like the preferred rootstock is wild form Capiscum annuum scm33

http://www.fupress.net/index.php/pm/article/viewFile/11358/12204

Looks like may only be commercially available

Vinlander:
If you're looking for a tough rootstock that confers vigour then I'd recommend C.pubescens (manzano/locoto/rocoto/"gringo killer") which can easily reach 2m in their second year and always leap away in spring as long as they were kept above zero through the winter (no sulking).

However despite good intentions for several years I've actually never tried it as a way to make the other species grow bigger and quicker - and that means I can't guarantee graft incompatibility (which can easily crop up between closely related species and even in the same species occasionally).

The other possible contra-indication is that C.pub. is quite late to fruit if grown as an annual - though there's a chance it could make it much easier to overwinter the less robust species.

This year I will definitely try to graft West Indian Seasoning peppers (C.chinensis?) onto it as they also fruit late and making them perennial is one way to solve that. Tobago Seasoning is (for me) probably the quickest of them.

Cheers.

Hector:
Thanks for reply, much appreciated. I have some older Locoto/Rocotto seed, so will try that. It's the overwintering and robustness I'm after.

Thoroughly enjoyed growing and cooking with my chillis, so growing more this year.

Vinlander:
Other rootstocks with unknown potential:

1) Saw some pepino fruits on sale in Morrisons today (Solanum muricatum) at £2 each - a silly price for a small melon-substitute - but a very good price for a giant edible seed-packet.

Yes, they are worth growing if there's a good indian summer - but more important is their potential as a rootstock - they will overwinter well at anything over -1C and in general the roots survive.

Even better is the fact that if the roots die you can cut the tops off and they will grow new ones within days - I've never seen a quicker rooter - they make tomatoes look slow.

Unfortunately I lost my stocks to the big freeze of '10/'11 - just before I was going to experiment - probably best for aubergines? but might work with peppers?

2) S. sysimbriifolium (Lychee tomato) is similarly hardy and even more vigorous, but not a particularly enthusiastic rooter - not to mention the demonic thorns. Again, interesting but untried (as far as I know).

Cheers.

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