Vegetable Crops Hotline A newsletter for commercial vegetable growers prepared by the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service

Learn How to Graft Tomato and Cucumber Plants

February 19, 2020 - Included in Issue: 668

By: Wenjing Guan

Tomato and Cucumber growers who are interested in grafting tomato and cucumber plants by themselves may find this information helpful.

Step-By-Step instruction of how to graft tomato plants is available from Purdue Extension publication Vegetable Grafting: Techniques for Tomato Grafting https://mdc.itap.purdue.edu/item.asp?Item_Number=HO-260-W as well as a Purdue Extension video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ufx66Isf88

A cucumber grafting instruction was also released. It provides step-by-step guidance of cucumber splice grafting technique. The publication is available at https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/HO/HO-328-W.PDF The cucumber grafting video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-tXoobiMnY&t=1s

A grafted tomato plant grown in a high tunnel

A grafted tomato plant grown in a high tunnel

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