CAMBIUM: the stuff between the xylem and the phloem.

Fuzzywuzz said:

Its more common than not to graft greenhouse tomatoes. No one grows determinate greenhouse tomatoes.... lol.
Im not trying to pick a fight here but Im a hort student & work in the industry
http://glvwg.ag.ohio-state.edu/documents/ReidGrafting07.pdf
http://www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/greenhs/htms/Tomgraft.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_grafting

Im not trying to say grafting of cannabis is viable either, just that it hasnt been done enough, and no one has bred for rootstock characteristics so we have no idea if its worth it or not.
the blanket assumption that ONLY perennials should be grafted doesnt always hold true......

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Bonkleesha said:

okay okay okay fuggers.

we had a grafting lab yesterday, and i had a chance to talk to the godfather of grafting. no bullshit. guy has been grafting professionally for over 60 years.

okay lets go back 2 days to the grafting video when this cambium shit popped into my head. i wanted to make more cambium, or synthetic cambium, but i didnt even know how it was created. well, i read a wordy thesis online saying that all cambium production was traced to IAA. basically there wasnt mention of any other hormones.

okay, so i asked this grafter grandpa about cambium production and IBA rooting hormone. he got all bright eyed and pulled me aside and we did some tests on a filbert tree rootstock so he could show me EXACTLY where the xylem, the phloem, and the cambium were. i could see it with my eyes already, but we used some dyes and shit to do this. anyways, the guy told me that he HAD INDEED EXPERIENCED INCREASED GRAFTING SUCCESS WHEN SOAKING THE SCIONS IN IBA. he told me 10:1, but not which IBA lol. i just had too many questions to ask.

and i grafted fuji and honeycrisp apples onto some scientific ass rootstocks. word to your mother.


and heres another food for thought: how about removing the cambium left over from cutting the scion or rootstock (if any) to place into and around the cambial contact areas on our grafts. shit i shoulda asked more.

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Farmer's Hat said:

I successfully grafted a female scion onto a male rootstock. The experiment was intended to see if this grafted plant would grow bigger and faster than a traditional clone... and it did. I grow outdoors, so the graft was done as early as possible. I kept the plant indoors until the graft had visible signs of a "scab". It took me two tries... the first was a complete fail because the scion was to small.

I kept a small sandwich bag over the graft. Treat it the same as a rooting clone.

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Uncle Ben said:

How old is the plant in that photo? If you're serious about this, buy some Parafilm and wrap it around the scion working on down to the rootstock. At the bottom make a loop around your finger, pull the end thru, remove finger and tighten.

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