Awesome to see that it worked! How is this jade now? Possible update video? I’m thinking of doing this with some thick Portulacaria cuttings. Currently have some drying out, then I need to get them to root, and then I’ll possibly try fusing them
Congratulations on the successful fusion. I fused a couple of cayenne pepper seedlings back in 2015 by slicing off the periderm and bark down to the vascular cambium, scoring the cambium a bit, and binding the stems together with electrical tape. It worked! I'm intrigued about doing this with woodier stems, like jade.
It took me several attempts before it worked with a jade plant, I find the younger and less woody the stem the better it works. I've grafted many different plants and I usually find that the younger stems graft faster.
woohooo!!! congrats 🎉!!!! I AM SO ELATED FOR YOU AND THE PROGRESS!!!! i love the process you have shown us with all of your update videos! it makes me motivated to try and do this myself!! again, congrats and thanks for this!!
Congrats! Inspired by your earlier video, I've also been testing a few graft techniques. One uses 4 small cuttings about 6 inches long and 1/4 inch diameter. I rooted them all for 3 months, then sliced the sides and wrapped them with graft tape. The other idea is testing grafting larger cuttings back down on the mother plant with the goal of making a much larger bushier jade. Im waiting for fall (6 months) before I test to see if any have taken.
That sounds interesting, especially grafting branches to the base of the trunk to make a bushier plant, let me know how you get on with the grafts. My next project will be grafting different varieties of jade onto one root system so that each branch looks different. One of the things I find hard with grafting Jade plants is that the sap and stem is very slippery when cut and so its difficult to tie the grafts together without them slipping apart when I tighten the twine. I think grafting wax would help with this.
@@Vuedanto An Update: All the cuttings I tried to graft back on failed within 6 months. For the rooted cuttings, I gave it a full year, just unwrapped it last week and it didn't take, each plant just sealed up on it's own. I just cut back the same plant last week, so I'll try again!
It took me a few attempts over the course of four and a half years, but it can be done in a few months if you make sure the bark is removed before grafting and is tied with something that can stretch slightly.
