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alpha010 · 05-09-2009, 10:03 AM

plus, since there is no true stem, and every part of the plant derives from the growing point of the corm, so eventually, if you graft a raja puri to a saba, you still only have a raja puri and a saba...both separate, just taking a smaller footprint in the dirt. It's not like citrus where you use a rootstock of one that is hardy to graft say a meyers lemon and the plant will become just the grafted plant after so long, unless graftstock is removed. The only way that I have seen or heard of to graft a nanner is corm splicing. You cant make a 'V' cut in the lower end of p-stem of a basjoo and graft in a Williams and hope to grow a Williams with edible fruit, you will in turn end up with one fugly basjoo and after a while no matter what goes on the outer petioles of the williams will perish and leave the basjoo on its own. OR, that spacific type of graft will only last long enough untill the basjoo kicks out a leaf and pushes the graft completely off the top.

I cannot logically think of even one half-way decent purpose to validate and perform this type of surgery to my babies.

05-09-2009, 10:03 AM	#4 (permalink)
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