yes yes rosie i worked with them a little this week i'm all riled up and couldn't get any of them to do it rosie used to be my ass older chicken when she was younger and oh lighter yeah she she was my little pirate chick and she was you know lighter by about two pounds some conflict between the old and marie and then of course ruby so insecure she just gets up on everybody but still i so that's our discussion and that's that's what's happening we'll talk about how to deal with it later let's go grab some tomatoes right down to the left slowly trying to recover from the winter i think it's going to the winter before either so we've been trying to much this thing out the first thing we do when we get over that is to graft them onto a disease resistant root stock so basically you're cutting to tomato plants in half and taking the best half of each one and clipping them together and then they grow together so we've got the disease resistant root stock over here as you can see it just looks like a tomato in you know from the foliage but here's what we're looking for it's got this rather aggressive root system these are the vote for it rootstocks there's like three of them in this line maxi for both fort and multi fort each has its  specialty the maxi four it's more of a greenhouse production for continuous production where you don't mind having a lot of vegetation continuously growing this is the bow for it works better in the field and it's got it what i found is the maxi ford had no sense of season it would just keep producing green fruit it never ripened outside this has a nice ripening schedule in august you start writing up and it's got all disease resistance the multiport has little less vegetative growth so here is our heirloom in this case were grown out the same two from last year because i love them i've got an italian pair and we're talking a big pair and we've got this is core new why our which is a quarter blue hybrid with  time some schedules you know say plant one before the other what i do is i plant a whole bunch over a period of time so these actually were started at the same time and did time very nicely together i did have spotty germination however so i only got three good ones out of that first run i did stick new seed in next to  just to save space to have another batch coming up behind them so with spotty germination and plants doing what they want to do you know it's good to have a lot of plants to choose from so over so you the flat we are she a period of about ten days i planted a number sets of these root stocks and heirlooms so that if one got it ahead of the other you know i've always i can always go backward or forward in the series  and somewhere along the line you find you know tomatoes that matched diameter so these are also at various stages as you can see i'm going to have a lot to work with and it's nice because you can see that on this case i got about three  ps and i got a bunch of rootstocks about three or four of the heirloom socks are all the same diameter i can do a few tonight a few tomorrow and then these are going to be pretty much too big to work with but by that time these come up and running and i can do a few more tomorrow and keep it rolling until you've got to go and so first thing we're going to do is we're going to pot up we're going to take our  heirloom stock here i can go over to grafton table at this point because we're not into a thing with them right now we're going to take our stock and work up and putting one up commercially they'll go in and do the whole tray you know chop chop chop chop and they use the little grafting tubes and they pick and stick you know and they'll do the whole flat at once we're going to work constant training on producing two good plants one good italian pair and one good  it's you know straight is good you see this one's got a nice diameter be a little crooked and i'll do that one off camera because he's going to be a challenge go ahead colleen's are going to come off anyway these are just hanging in there so i just pulled him off by hand  and then we're going to and we're going to use this guy because he's got the roof these guys are so aggressive they hop into the other pot so i've kind of already pretty loose and they get my tweezers and  between those cells and get those roots divided up at that point you can get a little squeeze maybe tool down there wet so i don't want to water and if they're this is fine you know you go water i'm in real quick anyway after the transplant but the hold together better if they're a little moisture in this so this being the root stock i'm going to handle it from the top because i don't care what i do it leaves that clear lines that stems unbruised and places straight so as you can see a nice robust healthy root system nice white about sixty forty locusts and this is good stuff this is your some leaf mold or something else give me some rabbit manure compost years ago that this might be a representation of but this is what compost looks like in the very end years after you know you start the compost pile and this is just the basic you make carbon chains that are left over you know this probably represents about you know probably stars one or two five gallon we're going to grab about half a pot full here i've got a special of paki thing that packs the corners and leaves a little pyramid in the middle up like this and then wait a couple days to let them get over transplant shock and there was no transplant shock in that certain growing right away and the easily outpaced the heirloom stocks that were in the still left in the cells so i stopped doing th were settled obviously want this straight if you can get them you know if you're going to balance something on a flagpole you want that pole just as straight as you can get them i mean yeah there's a clip on there to hold the cut together but you know just gravity is what it is and you might as well work with it and then the last thing i'd like to do is the number two grit you know what you buy from chickens gives you know if they need a little grit in there to grind up their food and like to have a good layer on there because it's nice and heavy and it helps hold that plant up and its new home also acts as a mineral mulch holds the perfect amount of moisture in there it's also very clean and water this in which we're going to do right now you know and then we're going to  we're going to use a new razor blade use the single is safety i've seen one person who would take the double edge because they're thinner and those obviously go away anyway so let's go ahead and this is a little odd we'll just use one of my less desirable science here and not just take an experiment   in the spot where the purple and the green mix as you note in the very new growth in you know in the woody gross i'm going to come up here and it's going to spin i'm to see like where you get the most diameter and stuff and also all tomato plants are very similar if you cut them at the same sort of angle you know count the leaves see where you know this is like the third leaf pick out the third leaf on the guy you're going to cut and ha think about cutting them at the same angle as far as plants morphology so i see a little extra width here and i'm going to go make my turn here is and i'm going  to notice the blade wants to school or hump you want to nice flat cut so it helps to kind of go over here on the side and support  examples and you see that kind of a slight angle and i've done it flat i've done it the way they show you on line which is kind of a pretty steep angle and i've come down to about  twenty thirty degree angle is the best that it gives you a little kind of a click point where you know that they're locked up together but it's not so steep that the thing wants to slide off i'm going to  i can take this one works it's a miracle folks  know just a couple weeks old i found that it's easier to work with bigger plants when you know another leaf on there before you start doing it because there stems are little tougher you know so you've got you know the clip won't kill him as much served two different slots in him and you can fool around with that see which one accommodates your plant the best i'm going to use it diameter problem you know it's the first one this is my first one i was going to do a practice one before the show but i thought that i think you know so we're going to take this i'm going to kind of eyeball where that is i  little bit bigger cut i'm going to come up here maybe i'll lose that double leader there that the coddling just go up a little higher remember and do is it just kind of look and i think that that's where the angle kind of comes in useful you can kind of feel it when it you know it can only go in one way basically and if you've got the vascular tissues to line up here it's like bundles of hoses and some of them align up but not if they're not connected you know so next step healing and here we've got t wonder box that works so well i've got a an aquarium heater early in my of flask i've got some thermal mass in here now to some tiles that gives a nice flat base i'm going to put this plant in here  the aquarium heater heats the water makes a nice humid heat i'm going to mr around the plants no need to miss the plant in this temperature and then we're going to close the lid keep them in the dark three to four days this is been running at seventy eight men actually going to turn it up just a bit until the light comes on and bring up to about eighty is five is perfect ideal of keep them in the dark and then  piece these guys haven't even been wilting on and they go into this environment so they heal up very quickly i've noticed by the time i open the lid that grafting scar is already starting to callous over the grow a nice little scar tissue it becomes the toughest days or so you'll actually start see them actively grow and at that point you know you start cracking this pulling this off slowly dropping back down to ambient temperatures and and immobile like the camp