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Grafting Haworthia
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:57 pm
by vitt13
Found the interesting thread but cannot understand what was the rootstock. Was it Aloe?
Source
http://www.lequyuanyi.com/article-6420.htm
Re: Grafting Haworthia
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:15 am
by greenknight
Looks like Aloe root stock, yes. They're fairly close relatives.
Re: Grafting Haworthia
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:06 pm
by Carbo
Wait, I thought monocots can not be grafted, how is this possible?
Re: Grafting Haworthia
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:11 pm
by vitt13
I didn't find his any further post that could prove the possibility. Only those photos from first link.
Re: Grafting Haworthia
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:30 am
by greenknight
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.
Re: Grafting Haworthia
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:43 am
by Carbo
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.