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Quote[/b] (nepenthes gracilis @ Feb. 07 2004,16:36)]So you want reproductive cells to grow into the graft? Wouldn't you rather want Mitosis? (reproduction of body cells)
Pondboy is confused, lol. It's Mitosis
and I don't know about skin oil causing problems, but the bacteria on your skin sertainly will... This is a good idea.... Wax should also hold in moisture.
...If you put a weak plant on a plant with extreamly robust roots, you will get an extreamly robust vertion of the week plant. A lot of times, the root system is the deciding factor in how fast and large a plant grows. The better the roots, the more effective the food storage, useage and water flow. While your graft would not be genetically changed, it will have a very importent part of it with better genes and that is what really counts. Most plants have a very high capasity for growth and are only limited by their ablitiy to obtain reasorces. Need examples? Have an apple lately? Most cultivars of apples have horrid root structues. Literally, they make these pathedic little fruits and die without emaculate care. But that is not what you see at the store
At the store you see the fruit from an apple that was grafted onto the root stock of one of the origenal domesticated apples... or at least the oldest we have. See, imbreeding makes the root systems of apple week, so we needed a way to selectively breed for both hardyness, and fast growth while also getting the fruit flavor, texture and skin that we wanted. The solution was to breed for fruit by taking apple seedlings from a favoret tree and grafting them back into a root system from one of the old virieties like Transparent Apples. Then you could see the fruit at it's best and keep breeding and a grafting. The apples we grow for todays market are ALL grafted. These plants hold the genes for awsome fruit, but horrid root systems. It's an easy solution to a complex problem
How do I know this? I live on a farm, and my dad wants to get fruit trees so that is where the details came from, but I orgenally learned about this from a tree already on our property. The origenal owners said they had been ripped off, this stupid tree wasn't what they had planted, the tree had never been carefor it's entire life, that was ovious, so I had to wonder what was up. A little research later and I found out that it was a Transparent Apple tree, the first green apple known to man. I also found out that just about the only way you will ever get to see one is if you have a tree thats graft failed because that is what nearly all cultivars are grafted on to because while the Transparent apple has soft skinned fruit, it produces apples for the entire growing season and in huge volumes because it's root system is unbeatable....
so um yah, my point is putting a slow growing species on a fast growing one will probubly have very nice results