[QUOTE Oh well, I wonder if I could quarter cuttings? Hmmm.
Hi NoelG_123,
Hum, that's just a good start, Doctor Jekyll !
With such assemblage, the dnas wont' fuse. You will get a tree with branches on the left being strainA and branches on the right being strainB.
Did you wax i or paraffin it ? It will dessicate otherwise ... My grafts all dessicate because I don't use a sealer... I may buy a pot come next year.
I want my grafts to succeed at some point ... But I'll have to buy a grafting knife as well ... Wait, when is Christmas ?!?
If you want to try the dnas to fuse, you'll have to do that at bud level. So you need to graft half a bud of strain1 to half a bud of strain2 still attached on a branch of strain2.
Those if they succeed are called a chimera. But achieving that is even harder as you need to get the inside part of the bud to be not too damaged.
Hum, I'm getting my fix with two Panaché ( some late cuttings rooted outside that never rooted... Well one had one white root, but for checking if it was there, I broke it on putting the dirt back ... Damn it !!! But at least now I know: It had a root ... meaning, it no longer has it ... Patience, damn patience !!! )... May I suggest that you try to root some panache cuttings inside the home ... Just 2 or 3 cups more in the living room ... The dog does not snore (you said) after all .
Sounds like a grafting experiment, I don't think the DNA will blend, but if it worked, you'd get one half one kind of tree and the other kind on the other half. But expecting intervention from this group is not even reasonable... We are enablers!
I was wondering if your chances might increase if done in the spring just before the fig goes out of dormancy.
I recently saw something about a Col de Dame (Black + white) from Spain. Perhaps this most unusual tree was the result of a similar experiment.
I did a real hack job which you can't tell in the photo. Yes chances are timing would play a factor as well. Next time (hahaha) I'm going with thicker and uniform straight cuttings and use more wax. But if you have extra cuttings why not just try a couple and stick them in a window and see what they do. Be well.
Speaking of enabling, you'd have better luck with something called pleaching. You grow 2 or more different figs in the same pot and braid the stems around each other. Eventually they'll fuse.
I don't know where you live but I hope the BT tastes good there.
Homeguides.sfgate.com/pleaching-fig-trees-32270.html
I just thought of something for those of you with limited space, you could just pleach your trees together, then you can have more space, to collect more varieties. ;)
Nice Link. Thanks! I have a file I keep all web addresses that reference figs to. This is an interesting idea.
Noel, what's an extra cutting? ;)
Also, what about just shaving the cutting and sucking together the"raw" /"shaved" parts?
Also, would a bandage be better than rubber bands bc oxygen..well..co2?
