Dragon fruit crossing P3. Toothpick grafting method. 

Thank you.

Just a few more days. First of all, the grafted seedlings are still alive but they need to recover from the operation before taking off. I can see some sign for them to start to grow. I just want to make sure.

Thanks.

Yes. I was inpatient and they were growing too slow from seeds, so I was trying to see when is the earliest time to graft them since they need to be grafted anyway, and it worked.

Thank you very much for watching the video and commenting. I think a successful grafting does not always rely on the cambium layer. I have a short video showing a grafted scion that was connected to the rootstalk outside the cambium ring. Also the side grafting method that many people use to connect a triangle piece of the scion to the side of the branch is not connecting through the cambium ring either. I did not try to put the seedlings on the cambium ring but I think the success rate could be similar. Also I want to graft more than one scion to each rootstalk to increase the number of seedlings to be screened, so to make them away from each other kind of make more sense.

@@xiaoli2142 The way I understand it, the cambium is the 'main artery', delivering whatever the plant needs, up or down. There are 'veins' from the main artery to the nodes on the sides, that's why the side grafts succeed as well. In all the successful grafts I watched, there was always some connection to the cambium. But since I'm only a 'watcher' at this time and your'e a 'doer', I'll defer to you... Temps are still at 100 degrees here in So.Cal but as soon as the weather improves, I'll attempt to be a 'doer' too. Good luck and please keep us posted with your progress.

@@ronbrown1020 Everything you said is true, the cambium is the main artery, but I think the "veins" can be created anywhere the plant needs and the juice is the blood. The cambium from the seedlings can create a need for the "blood" to flow to them therefore creates a new "vein" to draw blood so they can survive. It is just my "theory". We will see if my guys survive.

@@xiaoli2142 Decided to try one for myself (indoors) and see how it holds... I cannot add photos in "RU-vid comments", so i'll post in Facebook (Grafting Dragon Fruit) under 'Barley Barlevav'. I hope that it's okay that I gave you a 'plug' there. So now I'm a 'doer' too.....

@@ronbrown1020 Great! Eager to see your results. One small detail. In my toothpick method, the stem skin of the scion should be scratched a little to create a direct connection between the scion tissue and the "blood". I found that if you don't scratch the skin, the success rate will be greatly decreased.

This is a hybridization experiment to create new dragon fruit variety. By using Tricia's pollen to pollinate Kathie Von Arun flower, which is self-sterile, I am trying to mix the genes of the two to see if some nice feature would come out from the offspring, such as Tricia's dark red fruit color and beautiful flower and Kathie Von Arun's sweet and fragrant fruit flavor. That is why they have to grow from seeds and seedling grafting is a proved method to get fruit faster.

It doesn't take years when you graft onto mature root stalk.

You can watch the follow-ups to see the results. Be sure the following: 1. Use rubbing alcohol for disinfection; 2. Cut the seedling stem diagonally to create a larger contact surface area to encourage flesh-to-flesh connection between the root-stock and the seedling and 3. Do not include any root in the seedlings to be grafted.

@@xiaoli2142 yaah i saw all the video

@@xiaoli2142 I am from India here it's new thing no one telling this experimental thing and results but i saw your and got some knowledge now I need to use it and make my work easy

@@nareshkumawat2417 Also make sure to use pointy material such as a tooth-pick to create the hole when grafting seedlings. The pointy tooth-pick creates a triangle hole so the stem of the seedling have a better chance to make connection with the root-stock tissue at the bottom of the hole, and also the pointy end makes minimum damage to the root-stock tissue and once the seedling is inside the hole, the tissue can have a chance to expend to fill up the hole again to support the connection to the stem of the seedling. I have a video showing a direct vertical cut at the hole area on an successfully grafted seedling to show that the root-stock tissue had filled up the whole grafting area so the seedling and the root-stock has become one.These are showing that the method works if you do it correctly. Here is the link to the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JA4ws64WHmY.html

@@xiaoli2142 thanks ❤

p mk, sorry, the post on Facebook is not my post. It is Ron Brown's. May be you can join Grafting Dragon Fruit group to see it?

@@xiaoli2142 are you talking about Richard

@@pmk3715 Yes, Grafting Dragon Fruit group is Richard's group.

@@xiaoli2142 Any changes since you posted this? There is no growth or death on my two seedlings, the one ON cambium and the other OFF cambium are the same. The other few that are still in soil are continuing to grow. I also think I left too much of the stems and should have cut it closer to the leaves. Live and learn...

@@ronbrown1020 Hi Ron, I haven't update on this issue because there are not much changes. The grafted seedlings are still green and strong in touch, so I know they are not dead, but there are not much growth either. I can only see tiny little increase of the center stem but not enough to show on camera. I want to wait until the growth on the seedling stem more sure before I do another update, but they are not dead. I did the experiment comparing putting the seedling right on the cambium ring also, but they still need time to recover from the operation and time to connect to the cambium layer. In general, it is too early to call.

Thank you for commenting. It is not about if you know how to do something or not. It is about trying to experimenting on how to do something better to improve our knowledge on doing something. If you don't know how to do something then you never do it, how could you learn to do anything at all?

You are a Karen😂

@@xiaoli2142 comment like theirs make me realize how unintelligent most humans are