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Originally Posted by Jessedian
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Hi Jesse, here is a report of what I've been doing lately. Let me begin with my grafting, if I may call it grafting, for the skeptical people, I cut the corm of a Basjoo pup and another corm of a Raja Puri pup and tied them together. After they grew together sharing the same space of course, I cut the Raja Puri pup and didn't let it grow. My aim was to make the Basjoo pup suck cells from the Raja's corm or bulb. After around 4 months, the winter came and the Raja Puri corm probably died because it never grew up again when the spring came, while the Basjoo went into dormancy during the winter and continued its growth in the spring. In the third year the Basjoo bore seeded fruits and I planted them this spring. Out of about 1000 seeds around 15 seeds germinated. 6 seedlings died but 9 seedlings are growing vigorously. All the 9 seedlings have different characteristics, such as the shape of the leaves and collor. If they are hybrids of Basjoo and Raja Puri I don't know. If they are 100% M. Basjoo or not I also don't know. I have to wait for this new generation of plants to bear fruits to be able to identify them. Some of the plants seem to have the leaves similar to the Raja Puri and some seem to be just like the Basjoo. As you all know, in the plant kingdom amazing things happen, mutants occur in the wild because some insects or termites trick the plant to transform. I don't know of anyone having collected Basjoo viable seeds. In the past I have harvested seeds from Basjoo plants but they never germinated. Only the grafted Basjoo produced viable seeds in my 15-year-old garden. I have about 7 mats of Basjoo and the bananas that are not pollinated fall down when young and inmature. I will continue grafting my Basjoo Plants because I want to grow a variety that will resist the cold. Up to now I don't have any edible banana that will resist my climate. I will continue studying the abnormalities of nature and I have confidence that I will get good results although many botanists do not approve my experiments. So long for now and Best Wishes to all the members of the forum.