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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] adventurous grafting techniques

Not so far off of fruit as it seems.  Peppers and tomatoes are perennials in their native habitat.  If they don't get frozen they can grow for several years.  I've read of tomatoes being grafted to eggplant in France for the nematode resistance of the eggplant roots.  Apparently they even do it commercially.
-Lon Rombough

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> I ran across an interesting discussion that I found through Google.  The original messages at the Gardenweb forum don¹t seem to be available, but the link above will take you to the Google archive, or you can google it yourself using the words ³Grafting Chillies². 
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> The discussion was about grafting chili pepper plants, which I had never heard about.  I guess you can call chili peppers a kind of  fruit. One person from Australia said an eggplant scion (normally an annual) grafted onto a wild bush tomato (a perennial) turned the grafted combination into a perennial eggplant bush.  Another person went on to say that they are able to graft pepper plants with different species for root and scion when they are just seedlings.  This guy is a self-described ³knife-knut². He makes his own grafting blades out of glass flakes, not steel, because ³a metal blade edge is 5 microns where glass can be one micron. I do not know if it is true but I am happy with the glass blades when making grafts on small seedlings.².  Sounds like fun, but beyond my skill level.  I¹m still trying to get most of my apple grafts to take.