Question on multi color grafted adeniums
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Adenium....Approach-Grafting Techniques
Comments (6)greenclaws.... Just saw the link to your November photos. Your plants look beautiful and well on the way to getting that bonsai "look"....which is what I'm after. I want to force 4-5 main stems to grow together in the same pot, and mechanically, constrain the growth until all the individual stems fuse together, creating one, very fat trunk, with branches growing out from the top, which will subsequently be wired/trained into a specific shape....like a Baobab tree. I will try to force the trunks to fuse together by possibly taping them, or forcing them into some kind of clear, plastic column/pipe...I really haven't figured out how to do this yet. By using the same variety, and because each individual stem will have its own root system, the composite plant will have the same characteristics, flowering colors and flowering season. This might just be wishful thinking on my part, but if it works...I might be making a very nice plant. My aim is to eventually get a trunk about 13-17 cm in diameter, and about 30-40 cm high, then short branches growing out of the top. Think of a Baobab tree made from Adeniums. That's my plan...and God may laugh. Frank, from New York City...See MoreGRAFTED ADENIUMS
Comments (33)In most cases, grafting is done to turn a nice root with a bad flower into a plant with both nice root, and nice flower. You take a double or triple flower, or a particularly nice one, and graft it to a simple pink. Anything that grows above the graft will flower the grafted plant's flower color....See MoreUpdate: n00b with grafted Adenium and lotsa guts
Comments (19)It wont necessarily happen to that graft, but it can. Even if it does, that can also be somewhat attractive. It's the reason I bought this plant, in fact. I liked the look. Here is the whole thing:As for the wavy leaves, there doesn't necessarily have to be anything wrong with the plant when it does that. I get that on a number of my tworlings (two-year olds, doncha know). As long as you're sure there are no infestations, it's fed and watered correctly and has adequate light as well as heat, then it's probably just how the thing grows. Sunburn on adeniums is unmistakable--the leaves are literally bleached almost white. If you're really worried, dig the mother out, inspect the roots and examine your substrate. Or, since it's almost September, you can wait until the spring then dig it out. Pagan...See MoreMulti-grafted conifers
Comments (6)What seems like a simple question is not that simple at all. Crabapples, sometimes peaches, more often apples are available as multiple grafts. In your photo #2, what allows a perception as a lateral arrangement is the branching of the plant as it grew, with each separate scion seeking out it's own space. In multiple apple grafts, this is usually even more apparent as the grafts are spaced and then often trained in espalier fashion. It's far more complex in the conifers. The conifer picture you show has what looks like chamaecyparis on the bottom, juniper in the middle, and boxwood low. the boxwood is growing on it's own root in the ground, like normal. Then you have two separate stems growing up, one for the juniper and one for the chamaecyparis. I've seen versions with a third, topping out (in the nursery) at over 8'. And yes, it had a third stock for the extra graft. There's a practical answer and a theoretical answer. the practical answer is, no. The theoretical answer is if you can find plants close enough to each other, yeah, you could do it, but then you run into issues of vigor and overcrowding. Ever see a dwarf alberta spruce with a reversion growing out of the top or the side? A dwarf alberta is a white spruce, so a white spruce does quite well sharing the root stock. Not so well sharing the rootstock of other species. Most often how I see this represented is on blue spruce where the graft was a little high, or someone missed a branch in pruning the rootstock, and there's a green bottom to a blue plant. Ever see a red leaved Norway maple, or a variegated one, where the colored branch is small compared to the green monster it shares a rootstock with? Sure, you could find a blue spruce and green spruce and a golden tipped spruce and put them on the same rootstock, but they are going to grow at different rates, which is going to end up in a one with greater vigor swallowing those with less....See Moressk22 Ohio 5b
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