This could be a very gargantuan day in science history.
Last year I started experiments to graft phylum to phylum of spruce and blackberry to elm and ash rootstock. In other words the rootstock was a angiosperm-- a flowering plant that came late in evolution, while the gymnosperm the spruce, pine are much older in geological history.
I see no more frosts at night in the weather forecast and that many plants already have leaves showing.
So today, 9 May at about 7:30 I started and was finished by 8:00, not much time taken at all. Of course I did this last year about 25 times so know what to do.
The longest time taken was to sandpaper down my steel metal rods that I attach to the center of both the scion and rootstock forcing the rod into the middle so that the attachment is secure. I make a perpendicular cut to the stem. Once fastened I cover the section with a watery sponge wired on and everyday I water the sponge to keep it wet and hopefully the section will not dry out. I have my logo picture showing some grafts of 2025, but none were successful.
Today's two grafts involved Gleditsia honey locust to spruce rootstock and a blackberry Rubus scion to spruce rootstock. The only thing I had to worry about injury to me was forcing the steel rod into the pith of both scion and rootstock for I could easily puncture my hand in the forcing. And I had to worry about the blackberry thorns and the spruce needles.
It all went fine and easy.
If successful, I made world history in physics, in biology and in religion.
In physics because life is quantum entanglement of Light-photons which is perfect DNA.
In biology, because, well grafting of different Families in Linnaeus classification is as high as so far achieved. If I am successful I will have grafted different Phylums.
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
Do keep pond clean or fish get sick. I hate this new "clade" b.s.-- a means of crank crackpots in biology to arouse petty attention, money and fame.
In religion, if successful would be the first scientific experiments proving Reincarnation is a actual force and reality. For the moment I cut off a scion is a dead entity and if the graft is successful is a brought back to life. In a sense, then, every graft is a reincarnation, but to be of phylum to different phylum is all the more extraordinary. To put it in perspective, it would be like cutting a body part off of one person and grafting it onto another person and both live.
AP, King of Science