Grafting as Insurance

[David Clulow]

When I import grafts, it is my custom to cut off the tops and make some back-up grafts of my own.  This fulfils two objectives: this gives me extra plants in case of an unlikely disaster with the original and 2, I try to graft at least one onto a mature plant so that I can use it safely as a pod parent as I don't like small plants to hold seed pods.  This is one of my recent successes.  Here are five flat grafts on a mature specimen, which will let me use as a pod parent far more quickly than if I wait for the original graft to get big enough to hold pods.  The grafts are exactly one month old.  It is interesting to note that my grafts are more advanced than on the imported plant.  The imported graft is on the right

Here is Rinoa's photo of this cultivar:

'Coral Angel' was my best success of this batch, succeeding 1 x 5 grafts, 1 x 4, 1 x 3, 1 x 2 and 1 x 1.  However, neither 'Gloria' nor 'Breaking Dawn' gave me any successful takes.  Here is an experimental one of 'Amethyst' onto a vigorous small A. arabicum

[RiB SERVICES LLC -- Bangkok]

A very wise and prudent practice my friend 

~RiB

Regards/Roger, in Bangkok
 

PS:  mer...@cscoms.com, ro...@ksc.th.com and ro...@pacific.net.th email addresses are no longer valid ... please delete them from your address book :-)

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