Five Simple Grafting Techniques Best Suited for Most Exotic Fruit Plants
By Dr.King
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This book describes in detail 5 most useful grafting techniques that can be used to propagate many exotic fruits. The book contains detailed illustrations, examples, fruit chart as well as root stocks and techniques well suited for these fruits.
Dr.King
Dr.King is an avid writer in the nonfictional category. In the past 3 decades he has written several books in the areas of philosophy, Yoga, religious practices, sculpture, gardening, and so on. His books often blend scientific outlook with traditional faiths and practices. His books especially in the area of ancient philosophy succinctly showcase volumes of ancient literature in a condensed form, providing very authentic, insightful and unbiased portrayal. These books are generally characterized as thought provoking, giving an incisive look at the otherwise difficult to understand topics. One can expect to find reliable information, devoid of glorification and hype that is typical in this category.
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Five Simple Grafting Techniques Best Suited for Most Exotic Fruit Plants - Dr.King
Before we start
Some basic terms
Purpose of grafting
Requirements for successful graft
Selection and handling of scions
Influence of root stock
Tools you need for grafting
Start grafting
F:\my_books\amazon\am_ancient_wisdom\cover_design\cover_logo_old.jpg The fruit laden tree you see on the cover page is that of Jackfruit – the biggest tree fruit. Anyone who has ever tasted this fragrant, juicy, sweet fruit will never forget its unique flavor and would want to have more. In some parts of the tropics this is the most popular fruit next only to Mango.
But the main problem with this marvelous fruit is that it rarely comes true to seed. That means if you plant the seed of a good variety fruit, there is no guarantee that the tree that grows would give fruits of the same quality – it could be better, but in most cases – inferior. Added to this, the seedlings yield fruits very late – may be 8 to 10 years after planting. Also, seedling trees tend to be too tall – can be up to 50 ft!, and harvesting is very difficult given the size of the fruit – can be 3 ft long weighing as much as 100 lbs or 50 Kg.!
There are hundreds of such exotic fruits (see Appendix 1 for some of these) that are not so well known in non tropical countries. Many of these can be grown in warmer parts of the country and the fruits definitely add a new flavor to the familiar list of apples and pears. But most of these fruits have the problems we discussed above.
Grafting is the best answer to all these problems. By grafting you can ensure fruit quality, early yield as well as a tree with manageable size. In this book I am going to discuss some of the often used grafting techniques to propagate some of these exotic fruits. Many of these techniques can also be used for other fruits as well as flowering plants.
This book incorporates some of the experience gained from decades of experimentation done in my co-author’s (Anand) fruit farm in India where hundreds of exotic tropical fruits are grown.
Before I start describing these techniques let me briefly discuss some basic things related to grafting.
Some basic terms
Following are some often used terms that you need to be familiar with before proceeding further.
Grafting/budding: Grafting and budding are methods of plant propagation that join parts from two different plants in such a way that they combine and grow as one plant.
Layering: The method of vegetative propagation in which stems still attached to their parent plants are rooted by bringing them in contact with a rooting medium is called layering, Layering is not a grafting technique, but I have discussed this as one of the most important propagation techniques towards the end of the book.
Cambium: The cambium is a layer of cells located between the wood and the bark of a stem from which new bark and wood cells originate. This is an important term we need to understand clearly. So let me elaborate it a bit more in detail.
Look at the branch of a plant cut in a slanting fashion as shown in Figure 1.1. You can see three concentric rings in the close up of the slanted section. The middle lighter colored ring is the Cambium.
Figure 0.1 Cambium illustration
Bud: A bud is an undeveloped shoot from which embryonic leaves arise.
Budding: Budding is a grafting technique in which a bud of the