Tried grafting a tomato onto a potato plant... actually worked

So I saw this old gardening hack online about grafting a tomato stem onto a potato rootstock. I figured it was just internet nonsense but gave it a shot with two plants from my porch in Ohio. After about 3 weeks of keeping them humid under a plastic bag, the graft actually took. Now I have tomato fruits growing on top and potato tubers in the soil from the same plant. Did anyone else try this and have success or did your graft just rot like my first attempt?

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ward.anna16d agoMost Upvoted

I mean honestly that's kind of awesome but also sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen. Like congrats on your science experiment working out but now you've created some kind of frankenplant that's probably gonna take over your whole porch. idk maybe that's just me being paranoid but I've seen enough horror movies to know where this is going. Next thing you know it's gonna start growing little tomato-potato hybrids that scream when you harvest them. At least you got free fries and sauce though so I guess that's a win. Just keep an eye on it and maybe don't plant it near any other innocent vegetables.

ray_sullivan16d agoMost Upvoted

Lol chill out it's just a plant. Pretty sure it's not gonna come to life and start chasing you around the porch.

jake74715d ago

It's a graft, not a genetic hybrid, right? People have been doing this for decades without any horror movie consequences. Seems a little dramatic to worry about it taking over the porch.