that's a good question; i don't know about the alkaloid content of seedlings...not sure about that, but it'd be sad if you did. just graft and wait a bit. you can have a few hundred baseball sized lophs rooted, alk'd and ready in a year and a half to two years...
funny thing cat. Your grafting discussion and hobby got me in a new space. The concept of distinction is big with me. Perception is s blur out of which certain things become clear based upon new distinction. I knew of grafting before, but it was in the blur if general knowlege not pertinent to me.
your posts forced the distinction of grafting. Sort of like having recently learned a new word and then noticing it being used where you never did before.
anyway..
I am a big gardener, vegied. I would rather grow tomatoes than pot.
so I was at a nursery and encountered a Cherokee purple start that was priced at fourteen bucks.
"why so much"?
"it is an heirloom grafted onto an African tomato root stock"
I had to get it
then I ordered 100 maxifort root stock seeds and about 400 silicone grafting clips.
now I got a new hobby that complements my love of tomatoes, my hatred of the soil born tomato diseases I fight with every year and a new distinction.
thank you cat if curiosity