Talk:Grafting

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Citrus trees can be grafted with limbs of orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit and other varieties. Will any body plz tell me that the grafted plant whether give out fruits or not if grafted of so e.g. if we graft an apple tree with rose plant than whether the tree will bear apples as well as rose flowers. ?

if you graft a rose bud onto an apple tree the grafted part of the rose plant on the apple tree will produce rose flowers (behave like a rose plant) but the rest of the apple tree will continue producing apples(continue to behave like an apple tree). the rose plant that has been grafted only obtains its nutrients from the apple tree's transport system, not its genetic characteristics (: Robbyrobrob 08:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Quite probably not entirely true (horray for weasel words =). The grafted branches do in fact take on a certain degree of the host tree, a slight hybridization if you will. I've no idea on how this would be noticable on a rose on apple graft though, would be an interesting experiment. 85.228.39.204 (talk) 17:43, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Roses and apple trees cant be grafted

Can we have a source on the claim of Japanese grafting robots in the "Herbaceous grafting" section? Chrishibbard7 (talk) 21:49, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

 Done Duff (talk) 00:47, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Pomatoes are grafted the same way. I think... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.6.122.36 (talk) 05:56, 15 February 2007 (UTC).

The last paragraph of "Grafting Methods" in "Grafting" is full of typos and I don't think it is reliable information.

It seems impossible to produce a new species this way, as grafting won't alter the plants' genomes.

You are technically correctHal Cross 11:16, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I've read of this phenomenon in other sources, even of the example given. Biologically, two different species can create a third species through reproduction.Chrishibbard7 (talk) 21:54, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

I believe it is spelled Cion.... Could be wrong, but I'm quite sure 83.109.82.139 09:55, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Dictionary.com suggests that scion is the preferred spelling, and that cion is a variant. 85.228.39.204 (talk) 17:46, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

I was checking some references, when I come across this one Titled A History of Grafting at This is a fairly large pdf with lots of good info published by an experts. I thought this site may be of interest to this article. Blackash have a chat 13:24, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

"[dwarf or semi-dwarf trees planted at high density] provide more fruit per unit of land." I believe this statement is incorrect with respect to reasons for planting on dwarfing rootstocks. It is my understanding that full-size trees produce the most fruit per unit of land area, but the other reasons for choosing dwarfing rootstocks trump that particular reason in most cases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.245.94.215 (talk) 22:19, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

It is much easier to harvest fruit from a dwarf tree than a full-size one, so the profit per unit area is higher. In addition, the time from planting to fruiting is lower, and it is less expensive to change variety etc if smaller trees are used. There is also a lower chance of wind or storm damage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.194.176.131 (talk) 22:04, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

One of you experts might want to add this to the article. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 15:00, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

• http://www.sciencealert.com/news/20142107-25892.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9EuJ9QlikY
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kO6-PpgZ1M

I wanted to let any active editors who weren't aware of the grafting diagrams on commons. May be useful for this article. Offnfopt^(talk) 23:50, 26 May 2015 (UTC)