grafting a plant !!??!!??

["KONING,ROSS E. Biology]

Hi Gary,

Indeed the process you describe is easily done
with willow twigs and forsythia twigs.  It is simply
rooting a stem cutting of a plant...a kind of vegetative
(asexual) propagation (cloning).  It is not grafting.
Grafting is the joining of a twig (or bud) of one plant
(the scion) to the stem of a different plant (the stock).

If you have questions about either process, I'm happy
to try to answer them either on-list or off-list.

ross

Ross E. Koning, PhD
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Eastern Connecticut State University
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> From: 	GHD
> Sent: 	Saturday, December 16, 2000 9:48 AM
> To: 	plant-ed at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
> Subject: 	grafting a plant !!??!!??
> 
> Hello, thanks for reading this note.
> 
> I have a question on a "reproduction" method I had seen many years ago.
> 
> If I recall correctly a small (about 5 cm/ 2 1/4 inch) branch was clipped
> off a bush or tree,
> placed into a shallow glass container and filled with water to the point
> where the water
> just covered the wood.  Than it was placed into the sun and after several
> weeks a little
> "stem" started to grow out of the wood.
> 
> My questions are as follows:
> 
> Is the above "procedure" correct or am I just imagining something I though
> I
> have seen at
> some point.
> 
> If the above is a viable procedure, can this be "done" with any "tree" ??
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Gary
> 
> garyh at ezonline.com
> 
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