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Grafting Bamboo?

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:45 pm
by Jeff: Igor's Apprentice
Has anyone considered or attempted a graft of any type of bamboo?
One possibility that emerges in my mind is that perhaps flowering could be stimulated in a scion species due to being grafted onto a frequent flowering one.

RE: Grafting Bamboo?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:42 am
by Iowaboo
I thought basil nate already talked about this subject.

RE: Grafting Bamboo?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:34 am
by Jeff: Igor's Apprentice
Your thinking of his "Grafting Lucky Bamboo" Humor post. I'm talking about real bamboo. Lucky Bamboo is NOT really bamboo, FYI. :roll:

There are a few references to grafting bamboo on the web, but nothing very elaborate or detailed that I found.

I don't know that my idea is that looney. The flowering of apple trees is affected by the root stock they are grafted on.

RE: Grafting Bamboo?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:41 am
by Iowaboo
But apples have cambium layer.

RE: Grafting Bamboo?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:54 am
by Jeff: Igor's Apprentice
Bamboo have intercalary meristems.

RE: Grafting Bamboo?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:55 am
by ocimum_nate
It is definitely something that is not done much because of it's difficulty. Cambium layers are definitely easier to align intercalary meristems although I do know that it is done with vanilla beans under glass to increase production.

RE: Grafting Bamboo?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:10 pm
by Jeff: Igor's Apprentice
Here is a link to an ABS-SoCal newletter with a bamboo grafting article. I wish I could find the article that that this one makes reference to.

http://www.abssocal.org/pdf/newsletters ... 202005.pdf