This is an one year anniversary summary and update on the dragon fruit crossing hybridization experiment, focused on the Tooth pick grafting method and the Trellis top grafting method used in this experiment.
Wow, great experiment and successful grafting , I'd like to see the actual grafting vids to show how you did the trellis top method. Thanks for sharing. You also have many varieties of rare dragon fruit collections. New subbed 580🌱 would you sell the cutting branches of the yellow type dragon fruit.
Thank you for the subscription. The trellis top grafting is using the simple horizontal grafting method. Many RU-vidr have described it before so I did not record it. The only differences are the location of the graft and the age of the scion. Instead of graft on short branch, you graft on the branch on the top of the trellis, and the you should use seedling derived scion to get the multi branches growth. Grafting mature scion sometimes can also get multi-branch growth at the grafting site but it is not as robotic as using seedling derived scions.
I want to try the toothpick method because I have many seeds to grow. Do you think now is too late to start germinating the seeds for the toothpick method?
It won't be too late as soon as your winter low temperature won't kill the seedlings, but at low temperature, the seedlings and the grafted seedlings will grow much slower than at warmer temperature, so it will take longer time to see if your grafter seedlings survived or not.
From the experience I had with Palora, it fruited in less than 2 years from seeds, which is quite fast, but lacking side by side comparison. The experiment I am doing now with the hybrid of KVA/Tricia, included the side by side comparison between trellis top grafting and short root stock grafting from the same group of seedlings, which may give us the final result next year.
@@xiaoli2142 thanks a lot. Keep us posted. Will do the experiment also using both seedling and matured cutting scion on trellis top and cutting rootstock.
Correction. The Palora fruited in less than 2 years is not from seeds but from grafted. It took more than a half of a year to grow for it was grafted, so from seeds to fruit, it took about 3 years.
