Grafting Haworthia

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vitt13
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Grafting Haworthia

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Found the interesting thread but cannot understand what was the rootstock. Was it Aloe?
Source http://www.lequyuanyi.com/article-6420.htm

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Re: Grafting Haworthia

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Looks like Aloe root stock, yes. They're fairly close relatives.
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Re: Grafting Haworthia

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Wait, I thought monocots can not be grafted, how is this possible?
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I didn't find his any further post that could prove the possibility. Only those photos from first link.
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The problem with grafting monocots is they don't have a definite vascular ring, the vascular bundles are randomly distributed. I found a reference from 1899 to experiments which proved grafting was possible, but I suspect the success rate would be very low, since it would rely on randomly getting enough vascular bundles to align to provide adequate sap flow. I note that in the pictures above, there's just one that appears to be a successful, healed graft.
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greenknight wrote: Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:30 am The problem with grafting monocots is they don't have a definite vascular ring, the vascular bundles are randomly distributed. I found a reference from 1899 to experiments which proved grafting was possible, but I suspect the success rate would be very low, since it would rely on randomly getting enough vascular bundles to align to provide adequate sap flow. I note that in the pictures above, there's just one that appears to be a successful, healed graft.
I never knew it was possible at all. I know that there are monocots such as certain species of aloe that are capable of secondary growth, this is termed "Abnormal secondary growth" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary ... ary_growth,
perhaps these plants are more suitable for grafting.
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