Grafting

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Grafting

• Original by Linda Rist
• Modified by Georgia Agricultural Education
  Curriculum Office
• July, 2002

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History

• ancient technique
• practiced as early as 1,000 BC
• employed widely by the Romans centuries later

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Grafting

• two different plants are united so they grow
  together as one
• Scion - top - vegetative part
• Stock - bottom - root part

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Reasons for use

• give plants stronger more disease resistant roots
• cause dwarfing
• top working - grafting many different varieties
  to the limbs of one tree

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Reasons for use

• insert different variety for cross pollination
• propagate plants difficult to bud

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Requirements

• compatibility
• must be related to each other to enable the stock
  and scion to grow together

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Requirements

• Scion wood
• one year old
• vigorous growth

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Requirements

• Timing
• stock and scion should be dormant or have no
  leaves

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Matching of tissue

• cambium of two matched plant parts must come in
  close contact with each other
• cambium cannot be allowed to dry out

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Waterproofing

• immediately after making graft, cut surfaces must
  be covered with a waterproof grafting compound