Here's a followup on my most ambitious grafting project so far.
On 6/30, I decapitated all of the major branches off of a big beautiful Thai Soco with undesirable flowers.
I used a well rooted two year old cutting with a simple elegant red flower as sion material. This cutting had enough mature tissue to graft onto all 6 branches removed from the Thai Soco host plant.
I used the thicker mature sion material (from the bottom of the sion branch) for the flat grafts.
I used the green tip of the sion for a V graft on a smaller host branch.
I used the middle of the sion brach to make a new cutting. The base of the original cutting is alive and sprouting leaves again.
The stump of the cutting after it was topped and used as sion material.
The Thai Soco host still held tight with grafting tape and rubber bands and also bagged.
After 4 days exposed to the air and brought into bright indirect light outside
Growth of the flat grafts after 2 months.
All but 1 flat grafts have sprouted leaves and the last one has a nub which should leaf out soon.
A closeup of the V graft on the far side of the host plant.
Note the branch just to the right of the V graft is the original Thai Soco material.
I felt that it was too small to graft. I will either cut it off or graft onto it when it grows larger.
I'm happy with the way it's developed and I can't wait to see it bloom in the coming years.
