A question for tomato experts

[DannyS1951]

My wife is away in the UK so I get to play in our Bangkok garden. From the flower/plant village on the Rangsit-Nakhon Nayok road I bought a couple of well developed 10 baht tomato plants.  One has some medium/large fruit which has only just started to ripen. The other started to produce those small dark red plum tomatoes that you find in the supermarkets here. A couple of weeks later on a different branch it had a totally different small bright red cherry tomato. So we have two different tomatoes growing at the same time on a single plant.

 

My question - would one be grafted onto the other by the gardener and is this usual with Thai plant suppliers? Sorry the photo is not great but hopefully you can see the difference.

 

 

[DannyS1951]

Forget the question. On closer inspection they have bundled a number of seedlings together. Clever.

[CLW]

Back to your question, grafted tomatoes.
Is this done here?
In Europe it is common practice to avoid soil borne diseases and improve plant vigor.
Applies besides tomatoes also to cucumbers

[DannyS1951]

Thanks CLW. I obviously do not come by the forum often enough.