Based on the last week’s blooms, it looks as though at least one of the Anna Apple branches I grafted to my Gala will take. The buds cracked the protective wax coating and burst through with ease.
What an amazing ability: No organ/limb rejection, no immune-suppressing pill regimen — just, “Thanks for the new branch.” And now, when apple season comes around, as it has, this single tree will bloom different blooms and produce two varieties of apple that have little in common besides a capitalized Latin name.
I’m still waiting to hear from the several pear grafts, and the other Anna, but there’s promise in this first endorsement of my freshman effort.
An amazing ability indeed. One of the many strange things that plants can do and animals cannot.
I am also celebrating what looks like success in my first attempt at grafting. I did it with peaches and plums and the grafts are just at the stage that you show in your photo. I do hope it means they took.
Great work with your peaches and plums. I think once they start to bloom out it means they took.
Well done Professore! I saw this video on TED.com about sustainable farming by a chef named Dan Barber, who examins how chefs will be able to include fish on the menu for many years to come, and how the vary process that makes this possible also necessarily means the fish will taste as good as anything wild caught. Here’s the link, well worth a watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EUAMe2ixCI
Wonderful, congratulations! Hope the pears emerge soon, ours are just starting to wake up.
Thanks for the link, Mike. That’s an awesome video. That farm sounds just amazing. Maybe even amazing enough to get Jason to eat fish
does jason not eat fish?? that means john and i owe him a thank you present!
No, no — I like a good tuna steak, and several of the less fishy fish — especially in a taco.
We enjoyed the Fish Market!