Sick Aubergine

My aubergines were looking healthy till a few days ago. First a big leaf on this plant started drooping and then a few more. I'm fairly sure they are suffering from  Verticillium wilt, or some form of wilt anyway, like my tomatoes do if not grafted. Some are still looking OK but it could be just a matter of time.

I had a look on the internet and came across this paper on grafting aubergine onto tomato rootstocks So I'll definitely give that a try next year. I'll try both submarine and Roma and see how they do (or not).

https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/j...-p2058.xml

"With eggplant as scion and tomato as root stock, effects of eggplants/tomato grafting were studied. The results indicated that the grafting enhanced disease resistance significantly,promoted protential growth and increased yield, improved fruit quality to some extent as well."

My poorly Aubergine plant:

   

Isn't there an "Egg and Chips" plant where they've grafted Aubergines onto potatoes? Another of the gimmicks dreamt up by the TandM whizzkids!