WHAT IS GRAFTING
Grafting is an advanced technique is used by farmers, botanists, etc to add living tissue from one plant to another. Plant tissues have the ability to grow new vascular tissue, and the process of grafting takes advantage of this ability. We can take a branch from one tree and graft it onto another. The tree that received the ‘donated’ branch will grow new vascular tissue – those tubes that plants use to move food and water around – and begin to feed the new branch. This will keep the new branch alive, and the branch will start to grow as part of the tree.
Besides imparting specific characteristics to the resulting plant, it is a quick and reliable means of reproducing plants that do not grow true to type from seed. Grafting and budding are the most widely used vegetation propagation methods. We provide standard root-stocks for you to try grafting at home.
Key Benefits of the Service
In modern horticulture grafting is used for a variety of purposes: to repair injured trees, to produce dwarf trees and shrubs, to strengthen plants’ resistance to certain diseases, to retain varietal characteristics, to adapt varieties to adverse soil or climatic conditions, to ensure pollination, to produce multi-fruited or multi-flowered plants, and to propagate certain species (such as hybrid roses) that can be propagated in no other way.
To divulge disease resistance contributed by the root-stock.
To shorten the time taken to first production of flowers or fruits by the scion.
To dwarf the scion, making both its height and shape more convenient for harvesting fruit, as with apples.
To provide the most economic use of scion material.
To repair damage to the trunk of a tree that would prohibit nutrient flow, such as stripping of the bark by rodents.
To provide pollenizers.