4.1 Grafting in Plants

• Grafting as a method of plant propagation.
• Carrying out grafting in plants for repair, aesthetic, rejuvenation or improvement purposes.
• Caring practises: watering, protecting the union, removal of the grafting tape after successful union, and removal of other buds on the rootstock.
• Reasons for grafting: repairing a damaged plant, aesthetics, rejuvenation and plant improvement.

• describe grafting as a method of plant propagation
• carry out grafting for various purposes
• take care of the grafted plant to ensure successful union
• appraise grafting for aesthetics, repair, improvement and rejuvenation purposes

“Why is grafting done on a plant?”

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1. What grafting is
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   The top of one plant joined onto the roots of another.
2. Why grafting is done
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   Repair, aesthetics, rejuvenation, improvement. One idea, four uses.
3. The cambium: why a graft takes
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   A thin living layer under the bark. Match it, or the graft fails.
4. Whip grafting
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   Matching slants, maximum cambium contact, then bind it.
5. Cleft grafting
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   For a thick stock: split it, and wedge a scion into each side.
6. Choosing the material and tools
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   Healthy material, closely related, and a genuinely sharp knife.
7. Working safely with grafting tools
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   A sharp knife is the safe one. A blunt knife slips and crushes.
8. Making the graft
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   Cut, cut, match, bind — and work fast, before the surfaces dry.
9. Caring for the graft
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   Water, protect, remove stock buds, and take the tape off in time.
10. Has it taken?
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    Green means wait. Shrivelled means start again.
11. Why grafts fail
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    Seven causes, and most are settled before the tape goes on.
12. Grafting to repair a tree
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    Bridge the damage and the tree lives. Leave it and the tree dies.
13. Grafting: the whole sub-strand
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    Why, what, how, after — and the cambium decides all of it.