How Plant Grafting Actually Works and Why It's So Cool

[@gardenhead92]

The first guy who tried smooshing two plants together and just hoped they would fuse must have been like “I can’t believe that actually worked”

[@BlackTyeChi]

He was prolly high on shrooms when he thought of it. 😏

[@bland9876]

@@BlackTyeChi how come whenever I order mushrooms on my pizza I don't get high?

[@thegiovannimauro]

@@bland9876 different type of mushroom

[@thatonejerry9092]

@@bland9876 Nah bro you just gotta eat a bunch of pizza until it happens.

[@chaotickreg7024]

He probably saw two plants growing together on their own. It happens in the wild.

[@PaleGhost69]

There's a man who created a single tree that produces 40 different kinds of fruit throught the year. Really makes you think of the possibilities.

[@paddor]

throught???????

[@Gladuos1]

@@paddor rhymes with fruit, bro

[@PaleGhost69]

@@Gladuos1 Now I don't want to edit it

[@i.o_fit]

Throughout**

[@Abcwhatever]

Sounds amazing, wish that plant could make viable offspring that would make a similar tree with the traits

[@virginiamoss7045]

Back in the 1960s my grandmother grafted 8 different camellia branches onto one camellia bush to get all 8 different colors and patterns of flowers. She's been gone fifty years now, but the bush is still there down in Florida.

[@alistergoh9744]

you should take it home and care for it, that sounds cool

[@virginiamoss7045]

@@alistergoh9744 The bush is over 6' high and wide. I would not attempt to transplant it; it probably wouldn't survive. The people who live there now take really good care of it. It's showing its age with lichen growing in places on the bark. I don't know how long they normally live, but this one must be close to the end. Now I could take a cutting and grow it, but it would grow only one kind of flower. I could take a cutting from all 8 branches, grow them all and then graft them all on to one of the bushes. That would take years and I haven't got that many more years left in my own life at this point. I should have thought of this years ago. Where were you with your great idea back then? lol.

[@alistergoh9744]

@@virginiamoss7045 i take back what i said, my bad

[@virginiamoss7045]

@@alistergoh9744 P.S.: Camellias live from 100 to 200 years so this one is about 65 years old, a senior plant now. One camellia planted in 1347, can be found in China's Panlong Monastry.

[@souffle420]

Camellia can lives for centuries, so you don't need to worry 😁

[@LuinTathren]

Reminds me of the Tree of 40 Fruit by the artist Sam Van Aken. Using grafting, he grew a tree of various species of stone fruit (genus Prunus) : peaches, apricots, almonds, cherries, plums, and nectarines. The tree is stunning. In the spring, it bloomed in various shades of red, pink, and white.

[@SnarkNSass]

That was cool.😎✌🏻

[@johanconradie2120]

it is an artist impression!!!

[@Sienisota]

In a Mediterranean island, there is a monastery with a tree made by a monk hundreds of years ago. It has apples, oranges, and pears of diffrent types all grafted together.

[@nikkiewhite476]

He actually has made hundreds of trees like that. He is trying to save some varieties.

[@glenngriffon8032]

Pomatoes. When you want to grow your ketchup and fries together.

[@CET675]

Genius

[@PRDreams]

I'm giving it a try.

[@jamesburleson1916]

@@PRDreams I'm giving it a fry

[@moonumbreon6741]

Wow

[@rennnnn914]

@@PRDreams Sorry it doesn't work. You will get some tomatoes but the plant doesn't have enough energy to grow potatoes - potato grower here

[@BrotherSkodidi]

I'm surprised y'all didn't mention the Tree of 40 Fruit - that's grafting to the max!

[@BrotherSkodidi]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit

[@Jay-ho9io]

👍🏽

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

Its also a frankenstein monster.

[@123TeeMee]

I wonder if having so many species with so many proteins and microRNAs is good or bad for its health

[@Jay-ho9io]

@@123TeeMee to the best of my knowledge there's no actual or perceived impact.

[@zebedeetotty]

if your graft a peyote to a san pedro or peruvian torch you will increase it's growth rate by 200% or more, so instead of waiting 15-25 years you only have to wait 5-10

[@Double_Vision]

FBI OPEN UP

[@Voidwalker093]

@@Double_Vision hahaha!

[@sacramentallyill]

Yeah but the mescaline potency will reduce

[@dittocopys]

@@sacramentallyill if reduced by less than 30% its a win

[@neutronpixie6106]

@@sacramentallyill Oh no! Will have to use another gram of skin.

[@AnimeShinigami13]

As a gardener I've heard about a lot of grafted plants. Besides the pomato (one of my favorite names for it was ketchup and fries), there's also the Tomacco, a Tomato on top and a Tobacco plant on the bottom, which creates tomatoes that contain nicotine. There was once a Simpsons episode with something like this, but it wasn't grafted. "This tastes like grandma! I want more!" X3. But on a more serious side, there was also a story I heard once in which a man thought he could graft tomatoes to the related Jimson weed to make the tomato more hardy. He accidentally poisoned his entire family from the resulting tomatoes. Stories of grafting made me not throw out a mexican sunflower plant I accidentally broke while transplanting it. I took gauze tape and a stick and splinted the plant back together. It grew taller than me and drew a steady stream of monarch butterflies to the community garden.

[@young-stove]

You can graft nearly any cactus to any other cactus. There’s some amazing stuff out there. It’s a great way to grow lots of lophophora williamsii (peyote) to large sizes very quickly, to then de graft them and plant them directly. It’s a threatened plant, and very slow growing, so growing them to maturity quickly is a huge advantage. Just another example of how grafting can really be beneficial.

[@noahway13]

Send me a few, and I'll see how they do.

[@young-stove]

@@noahway13 sure thing, officer 😉🤫

[@GeneralNickles]

Man, if stoners could put that kind of motivation and willingness to learn towards something actually beneficial to society, all the world's problems could be solved in pretty short order.

[@young-stove]

@@GeneralNickles sorry bro, too stoned to read that 🤫

[@GeneralNickles]

@@young-stove see, I genuinely don't know if you're trolling or not. Probably both to be completely honest. You probably *are* stoned out of your mind right now, but you're also just exhibiting the typical dickish attitude that stoners always do when someone tells the cold hard truth that there drug of choice has no benefit to anyone, and the world would be better off if it didn't exist.

[@vietlee4290]

I have literally grafted eggplant, pepper, belladonna, and 3 tomatoes varieties onto a single potato plant and received amazing results. My Frankenstein’s monster of a plant had the biggest tomato and belladonna yield I had ever seen.

[@Jay-ho9io]

Nice!

[@Erewhon2024]

Dare I ask why you wanted a harvest of deadly nightshade?

[@Jay-ho9io]

@@Erewhon2024 Russian roulette by plant.

[@vietlee4290]

@@Erewhon2024 my intentions are* beyond your comprehension

[@Ascend777]

Who would have thought plants make better Frankenstein's monster than humans

[@williamsauls2648]

Someone really said “This tree is growing too slow. I’m going to do something about it.” And actually did something about it.

[@lourdthebluefoxie]

lmao

[@MorbidEel]

and then the next one who tried doing it with animals ...

[@kellydalstok8900]

More like the tree with the best fruit not being the strongest or best adapted tor the environment. And that’s where the base of a hardier tree with less tasty fruit comes in handy.

[@hallooos7585]

@@MorbidEel First of all who thought of drinking milk from cows and goats…

[@Michaelonyoutub]

Imagine literally watching grass grow for days on end, and now imagine watching trees grow for years on end. Who wouldn't come up with a more optimal method to save decades of your life?

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

The cool thing when I was growing up in SoCal was to have a citrus tree with oranges, lemons, and grapefruit all growing from the same trunk. Who knew there was so much involved in getting that to work.

[@Shaden0040]

Roses can also be grafted onto a hardier root stock. The graft pieces are called slips or buf slips in all graftingprocesses and are grafted onto eootstock.

[@injunsun]

I was once sold an "amazing potato-tomato," marketed as a graft, from the Michigan Bulb Company. Meanwhile, it was literally just two plants, together in a pot, not grafted. However, I also bought a wonderful tree from them, with five varieties of stone fruits: peaches, nectarines, red and black plums, and apricots. Over time, the grafts died, but the rootstock kept going, and produced a ton of nasty-tasting fruit trees, with pretty purple flowers all over my yard. What you just reminded me of is this: I can seek out twigs from wonderful fruit trees related to them, and graft them onto all of these nasty-tasting trees, and one day soon, might again enjoy delicious fruit.

[@laundrewashington3734]

How's that going for you, were you able to graft anything on your tree yet

[@injunsun]

@@laundrewashington3734 I am having too many health issues to do what I wanted to do, but if I improve... we'll see. Thanks for checking in with me.

[@laundrewashington3734]

@@injunsun oof.... Sorry to hear that and hope things get better for you sooner or later.

[@EricCampbell-hx4hv]

Are you doing any better?

[@Biophile23]

Botanist here - great highlight on grafting ... I was just lecturing on it today! Had not heard of micrografting, very cool. :) However it's not entirely true that American grapes are "no good for winemaking" Concord grapes are just one variety of grapes derived from American grapes, however that would have been quite limiting to the wine industry to be stuck with only a few varieties!

[@naturegirl1999]

I’m interested in plants too, what do you study more of? Genes, viroids, how plant cells communicate, taxonomy, phylogeny, proteins? I wouldn’t want to ask about sections you didn’t study much about compared to your specialty

[@Biophile23]

@@naturegirl1999 my background is more plant biotechnology but I study/teach a bit of everything these days.

[@throwaway8179]

I'd swear, I used to get 'drunk' on Welch's as a kid! Not only could I not get enough of it, it would affect my motor coordination, and I'd be giddy(happy)!

[@absalomdraconis]

@@throwaway8179 : Sugar will sometimes do that.

[@seankraus5246]

question. if i take a cutting from the scion, post grafting, and root it, will the new plant still be a copy of the scion pre grafting. sorry for the wording, guess my real question is does grafting actully change the genes the the scion, if i make some frankenstien plant will it be good to take cuttings for rooting if i want the preserve the original genes of the scion? like if all my scion stock died out.

[@post1084]

my grandfather grafted together plums, nectarines and peaches on a tree in his backyard, I recall they all being great . I believe the trunk of the tree was plum .

[@anyascelticcreations]

That's super cool!👍

[@jeremybyington]

They are all in the Prunus family so it makes sense. The one that blew my mind was an almond is also a Prunus member and can be grafted onto peaches!

[@beniaminorocchi]

@@jeremybyington I mean, it is a surprise only if you've never seen a green almond. An almond is basically a peach that loses its flesh, they look almost the same in the first stages after the pollination

[@bluestormpony]

the Pomato is literally a frenchfry plant. actual perfection

[@SnarkNSass]

IKR 😁🌟

[@katyungodly]

It's the tato plant from Fallout

[@TreeCutterDoug]

Pro tip from an arborist: your apple seed will absolutely not grow into a tree that produces the same fruit. Apples have highly mutinogenic sequence, and the largest DNA that has ever been sequenced.

[@madladdie7069]

So wait, if every tree of a variety ends up dying, you'll have to re-invent a similar tasting variety?

[@nicolasmertioni985]

Heterozygous, right? Cause wheat also has an enormous genome but is homozygous

[@TreeCutterDoug]

@@madladdie7069 No... Every red delicious apple you have ever eaten, came from a grafted portion of *THE* red delicious. And same goes for every other varietal. They're all pretty much clones.

[@madladdie7069]

@@TreeCutterDoug I knew they were all grafts. I just didn't know about the seeds not producing trees with similar fruit. What I was wondering was if a variety died out, would it worth it to try and replicate it or is it pretty much just lost to time?

[@NajwaLaylah]

I wonder what the Johnny Appleseed legend is based on, then.

[@Dollightful]

I feel like there's a "A graft on the plant is literally worth two in the bush" joke here somewhere

[@roberttrimmier3276]

I feel like your dad-joke game has a lot of potential. You're going to need to step it up a bit.

[@xXJAng3lXxx]

"1 graft of a plant is worth 2 years in the bush" idk I tried lol

[@Tina-Brune]

If I plant a red delicious seed and get a disgusting fruit I'd think that I have in fact managed to get the same apples though.

[@krellend20]

I was coming here to make this comment.

[@williamwalters3796]

Those red apples red so soft and gross. Get those green ones!

[@thefirstc.j.582]

@@williamwalters3796 or some pink lady

[@katyungodly]

Yeah the green ones are the only acceptable snacking apples haha

[@thefirstc.j.582]

@@katyungodly those green ones are too sour and hard.. but to each their own

[@seanc6128]

I dig the attention to detail in having the background color match the color of Rose's cool looking earrings.

[@jonathanmitchell2040]

"After waiting a decade or so for it to start making fruit, you may find that it doesn't even taste good." Yes, I'm already familiar with the red "delicious" variety of apple.

[@stefans4562]

agreed

[@Marionette_Doll]

The interesting thing about Red Delicious is that they *are* delicious. ...so long as you get them fresh and not after they've sat on the shelves in storage for six months. An interesting thing about Red Delicious is that they store well, for the most part. Under proper conditions, they're still edible six months after harvesting. Because of that, they're popular for stores because specialized warehouses can store massive quantities of them and sell them year-round. Unfortunately, edible doesn't mean *good*. After a few months, they'll have lost a lot of their sweetness and they'll be mealy. But a fresh Red Delicious picked right from the orchard and eaten within a few weeks? They definitely live up to their name!

[@brandy2378]

honey crisp is pure yum

[@OPAvenging]

FOREFATHERS ONE AND ALL, BEAR WITNESS!

[@PikabobAlex]

I'm looking for this comment 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnconnor6725]

Thanks Wish that person did more of the videos ! ! ! She speaks in an easy to listen to way and of course is easy on the eyes.

[@Poogoo701]

well if that seed came from a red delicious apple then the original apple didn't taste good either.

[@chris7263]

This was my first thought as well.

[@CourtneySchwartz]

Shots fired. 😆

[@familywilliams4058]

I think this is one reason the Washington apple growers have gone so crazy for the Cosmic Crisp cultivar that was released a couple years ago. It is amazingly delicious, and it is harvested at the same time as the red delicious (which is actually one of the oldest eating apples iirc)

[@Catlily5]

I agree (too mushy) but my best friend likes them because they are very sweet.

[@ValeriePallaoro]

this is not the only comment .. what is it with people not liking red delicious?

[@Whatever-mx3bt]

This is such perfect timing because I was going to start researching into grafting!

[@scmontgomery]

I was just researching how to graft my peppers, then bam you guys. Thanks for the awesome content

[@DemiImp]

There is so much info in this 11 minute video that answers so many questions I've had over my life. Thank you for making this video and making it so easy to understand.

[@travcollier]

Whenever the topic tree domestication comes up, I think of Elves (the Tolkien sort)

[@skyemorningstar166]

I kinda wanna see what a longer lived people would do if they lived long enough to breed fruit trees like we do annual crops.

[@travcollier]

@@skyemorningstar166 Or just using grafting and bonsai to grow structures.

[@skyemorningstar166]

@@travcollier that also sounds really cool. Like that one guy who made art with sycamore grafting and stuff.

[@travcollier]

@@skyemorningstar166 A lot of the Elven set designs for the LOTR movies actually incorporated that idea... especially Lothlorien.

[@skyemorningstar166]

@@travcollier but I'm never gonna get tired of cool trees, so I'd love to see MORE

[@evelynlamoy8483]

I preformed a graft on a plant earlier this summer. My family used to grow apple trees, and I remembered my dad grafting stems to root stock when I was a kid. The one I did this year was a tomato plant. It had 1 tomato left growing on it, but had been COMPLETELY defoliated by tomato horn worms. Tomato plants can regrow new leaves after old ones fall off, but I wasn't sure it would make it long enough for them to grow in. So I took a healthy leaf from a different plant that was healthy and grafted it on. It didn't take completely. I didn't have good enough tape I think, so after some rain, the tape became to lose and the graft came undone. but for about a week it was working, and the leaf wasn't dying or wilting so I knew there was good moisture flow between it and the plant it was grafted onto. So eventually after that bond weakened and I took it off, but it functioned long enough for the new leaves to grow un about half-length. Is it perhaps a little sill to preform plant surgery to try and get 1 more tomato off a clearly dying plant? maybe. but the it worked well enough for the plant to keep going, so I'm not gonna argue with the results.

[@yland6003]

*Immediately googles how to make a Pomato!

[@rennnnn914]

Sorry it doesn't work. You will get some tomatoes but the plant doesn't have enough energy to grow potatoes - potato grower here

[@Jackals_Mom]

I love that as a horticultural technician I can verify all of this to be accurate and a very graspable way of explaining complex ideas

[@cloakey1036]

Forefathers, one and all, BEAR WITNESS!

[@courtneypannell563]

Thanks for such a educational video. Working on growing morel mushrooms and research brought me here

[@sleepingmelons8420]

Having a single fruit tree with different types of fruit on it is so cool.

[@adrees]

I’ve been waiting for this video for 10 years!

[@r0ckworthy]

This summer I met a guy in the neighborhood that has this huge, amazing fruit tree in his back yard. This one tree is growing two different kinds of peaches, nectarines, and plums! And it's just heavy with fruit. Probably thousands of delicious, ripe fruit all at once. I asked him how he learned how to graft fruit trees together. He said, "I saw a video on KZbin."

[@al145]

I learned about the "growing fruit from true" thing from a random avocado farmer on youtube awhile back. Probably good that my attempt at growing an avocado from a seed didn't work out, such a long time would've been wasted (potentially)

[@FDL_1401]

Avocado grown from seed can become cute houseplants, even if they never make fruits :)

[@ValeriePallaoro]

@@FDL_1401 yes but my house mate now has 40 in pots thinking he'll grow rich sometime soon you're right on how pretty they are

[@MannIchFindKeinName]

@@ValeriePallaorodid he realize what he did to himself? Or are the 40 plants still good and going? :D

[@ChrispyNut]

So, this could expand the fruit/veg/legume varieties that can be grown with hydroponics / vertical farms? hmmm (not everything, just maybe "more than presently").

[@guaflar]

Cool to see popsci talk about microRNA! We are about to publish a paper that focuses on a few miRNAs that regulate maturity in Norway spruce, including 156! The more we learn about biology and genetics, the more complex things become. And that is awesome!

[@swankylime228]

FOREFATHERS ONE AND ALL, BEAR WITNESS 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥

[@XxstrawmanxX]

I had a mango tree at.my home that was grafted I don't know which mangoes that were mixed, but the mango dad a soft but crisp texture and the fruit fell off the seed with a refreshing taste and had a lot of juice.... Sadly it died

[@hacker1oo173]

Thats really cool

[@angrypossumsx1259]

That was excellent. Its really satisfying to see how modern techniques are expanding and improving such an ancient art

[@DeRien8]

It's so great to see plant genomics and hort practices being highlighted here, animals tend to get the spotlight. Inosculation is so cool! This kind of horticultural tinkering is my dream for when I have enough space, time, and resources.

[@kamek7361]

I remember when my grandma showed me grafting on the jackfruit trees in our garden. I was a kid then but it still seems to me like magic how amazing trees are

[@WickedPhase]

I got vietnam flashbacks to the rokakaka as soon as I saw grafting

[@knyx9913]

Thinking the same thing

[@bawbbawbins]

to be honest that was most of the reason i chose to watch this

[@alejandrochavez4340]

I'm glad I wasn't alone 🙏🏽

[@haharmageddontv6581]

Dio grafted his head on Jonathan

[@WickedPhase]

HaHarmageddonTV lmaoo

[@misterel5548]

We've done this in our yards. Its pretty amazing seeing diffrent flowers and fruits on one tree.

[@TheScratcherStudios]

Grafting is common in Bonsai growing as well. Even fusing different species together. Btw pretty much all Sakura trees in Japan are clones

[@nenume00]

some guy on youtube injected human genes and filtered the blended plant-smoothy to acquire a dose of antibodies. it would be cool to see scishow do a video on this topic

[@jeremygalloway1348]

What you be talking about nenume

[@nenume00]

@@jeremygalloway1348 smol bug posted the link

[@BeatrixTomomizu]

This just remembers me of all those people who cried out loud, when we started to make food with gene technic... I was sitting there and just thinking: "what's the Problem? We always played with nature and genes... We just got way more efficient! "

[@KnightOMurk]

FRUITFATHERS ONE AND ALL, BEAR WITNESS!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@PloverTechOfficial]

After I finish I might smoosh all of my garden together to get some mutant plant

[@MrBlitzpunk]

First time hearing about Pomato, genuinely blew my mind

[@anyascelticcreations]

My brother grew one.

[@bigshotfan]

I COMMAND THEE, KNEEL

[@jagorjurekovic1697]

0:15 I CANT, I CANT ANYMORE THOSE 2 WORDS HAVE RUINED MY LIFE

[@WRPBullet]

So what your saying is that I can grow my French fries and ketchup on one plant? Interesting

[@alg12700l]

This is so interesting! Thank you for doing this…more please. This is one of my favorite video’s.

[@glennbabic5954]

Damn, I was going to graft a full-size lemon tree to my semi-dwarf rootstock because I wanted a bigger tree, now I gather that won't work!

[@jeremybyington]

Whatever you see above the ground, there needs to be an equal amount below the ground in the root system, so you might be able to squeeze out a few extra feet by providing plenty of phosphorus and calcium to the roots. Also, those crazy photos of the trees melding together is called inosculation. If you plant another lemon tree right next to your existing tree you can watch them naturally graft together over the course of a decade to form a single tree. I did this last year with my apple trees and some dwarf rootstocks and they have completely fused together in just one year and now have a semi-dwarf and dwarf root system.

[@glennbabic5954]

@@jeremybyington that's the first comprehensive helpful and experienced feedback I've received on KZbin. Haha. I have clippings of an awesome lemon tree with plump thin-skinned lemons so I'll see if I can get anything by grafting otherwise I might need to plant some full size rootstock alongside and graft these cuttings later

[@Kongolox]

btw, it does change the taste. like if u put a pear into an apple tree, the pear would be harder and taste more like "appley"..

[@jambec144]

At about 1:16 "...plants of different genuses." The plural of 'genus' is 'genera.'

[@tracivilez6609]

This is AWESOME! I am definitely going to try this. Never heard of this.

[@Robbya10]

So we could create a tree farm by reusing the root systems and regrow transplanted engineered trees that could grow faster?

[@MoonWind32690]

Kind of. Grafting can be a tricky process. Large root systems need large foliage area to support them. But, most commercial citrus has new fruit bearing variety "branches" added to an already established tree as a means to "transition" to newer more competitive varieties. The video sort of suggests that this is "gene editing" which I think is quite misleading; there are many considerations when grafting different varieties of which there are species compatibility that must be met. You can't mix and match always (its normally rare to find cross species compatibility.)

[@cyric06]

I love these longer episode!💚

[@davidsan9654]

"OJ lovers"...I uh..didn't think of orange juice when I heard that

[@jkrende]

Amusing video. And Rose has the most epic "last name" on KZbin.

[@burakcetav]

We have a young apple three with the main branch being cut because it was sick according to my grandpa. But now I am wondering if I can restore that branch to grow, by grafting a new root on it? Is there a specific way of doing it?

[@ambiguoustvreference835]

there are different ways but you are basically smooshing it together

[@Erewhon2024]

Check out the J Secadura channel, though there are other grafting videos as well. The key is good cambium (meristem tissue just inside the bark, usually a ring of green tissue though it is red in most red fleshed apples) between scion ("top") and rootstock. Whip & tongue or cleft grafting are two of the most commonly used techniques for apples.

[@samuelpaulini]

Thanks for this episode - I really love the renewed scishow

[@tudoraragornofgreyscot8482]

So that's how the New Locacaca was made.

[@daredeviledoa]

the Syringa 'Correlata' deserve a mention in this video

[@masterquadbiker]

So if you was able to fuse an oak sapling with a hemp plant (I’ve learned that they grow incredibly fast) would you have the chance of making the oak tree adapt the same growth rate?

[@homebrewedthoughts2033]

Hemp roots die at the end of its growing season

[@MoonWind32690]

Species compatibility is key for grafting. Hemp isn't nearly the same. This isn't mix and match as much as the video sort of implies. Tree + annual plant really really really likely isn't going to work.

[@masterquadbiker]

@@MoonWind32690 what if you was to do oak and bamboo tree then? Bamboo also grows really fast

[@MoonWind32690]

@@masterquadbiker Ahh the elusive bamboo. So, surprisingly enough bamboo is actually in the poaceae family (all life is in different classes known as structurers; if you've had some biology class it probably talked about scientific classification aka kingdom; clade; order; family etc) poaceae is the true grass family. So long story short not a tree (just a perennial grass). There's some really neat stuff that can be done, like other's have mentioned about multiple fruits (same family) on the same tree. Furthermore, there are malling and malice *sp?* root stocks used for many different varieties of commercial trees to produce faster growing, drought resistant, dwarfed, etc trees. Where the trunk of the tree relies on the unique genetic traits of the rootstock. But! There are limits. So root stocks that improve growth are generally because they're better at storing energy during dormant cycles, or because they're better at collecting water and nutrients. YET! That growth is still limited by the trunk tissue growth capacities; basically you can "maximize" growth by making sure it has the most nutrients / best condition but making something grow 10x faster isn't really a possibility as far as my education has taught me. Oak is valued largely in part due to the characteristics it gains from growing slowly. Slow growing woods tend to be more dense, this harder, better grain appearance etc. If you had Oak grow as fast as say Ailanthus altissima (the tree of heaven; one of the fastest biomass producing trees know if not the fastest) you'd lose many of those unique "oak" traits. Science is doing some terrific neat stuff with modifying root have sequester CO2 www.ted.com/talks/joanne_chory_how_supercharged_plants_could_slow_climate_change?language=en and many other unique things, but generally unless I've missed something ground breaking you cannot really graft between families (at least for very long). Also the genetic traits don't "mix" instead its like two sets of genetic traits working in their specific area of the plant. The roots will never gain the genetics of the trunk, and the trunk will never exhibit the traits of the roots even if they're different varieties. Biology, especially plant biology might be one of the only fields I know of that pays reasonably well, but is also greatly in need of educated people! If you've got a passion don't pass up on horticulture or the genetic sciences behind it.

[@kalmanbaker2905]

Currently a junior pre vet major. I’m taking genetics 311 right now and this video gave me crazy deja vu from my lecture this morning .

[@getsomebud]

0:15 meme word

[@thanhvu2377]

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[@tempestive1]

2:40 - Port wine wouldnt exist as we know it without this, if at all! *But slight correction: it wasn't that the roots were resistant to the insect plaguing the vines* (nematode), the vine bearers the cultivars were grafted onto simply could grow better on sandy soils, soils in which the nematode couldn't dig its tunnels. As I learned it, it was Ms. Ferreirinha from the Ferreira port wine house who figured this out, but if its true or not I can't tell :p

[@PoesmanKont]

FOREFATHERS ONE AND ALL BEAR WITNESS

[@DovahRS]

A lowly tarnished... Playing as a Lord... I COMMAND THEE KNEEL!

[@Ash-vy4dc]

She said Among Us in the first 20 seconds. Im invested now

[@sarkozygaming3629]

NOOOOOOO

[@user-jc2jp7rd9f]

0:15

[@mattrenegar476]

Awesome! Great episode!

[@baguette.commenter]

I COMMAND THEE, KNEEL!

[@thebigstinker334]

I AM THE LORD OF ALL THAT IS GOLDEN

[@jmanj3917]

Looking good, Rose!!

[@checkers-xd]

time to overproduce the new rokakaka

[@tracivilez6609]

Wow that is so amazing. I am so going to try this.

[@dstinnettmusic]

0:24 OJ lovers usually end up with worse than despair…

[@Keallei]

Sharp

[@Oscar-gq4ro]

I’ve never grafted onto different plants, but that thumbnail very much reminds me of the many times I’ve snapped a cannabis meristem and had to tape it back together.

[@royal_zaffreknightx3445]

So basically we have tree Frankensteins everywhere…

[@alyshasocie6120]

It's stuff like this that just blows the mind. 😊

[@shadoweaglebear]

It isn't quite smooshing one onto another. Usually grafting can go to the family when choosing rootstock while most are within the same genus. Rose to rose, apple species to apple genus and etc.

[@S.Korpi47]

But if the rootstock isn't resistant against a particular disease, but the cutting you graft onto the rootstock are resistant to that particular disease, will the tree then be resistant or does the rootstock need to be resistant to?

[@twocvbloke]

"Non-GMO", but grafted around here there and everywhere to modify the genetics of an existing plant in order to get the optimal product, because that's how we get nice fruits and veg, through manipulation of genetics, some by sticking plants together, some by breeding them, gotta love science... :D

[@ooooneeee]

Yeah, the fear of GMOs is dumb.

[@stagnantfox3027]

I love how europe banned gmo but yet we do selective breeding every day which is a more primitive form of gmo. It's stupid. We should embrace gmo.

[@mikicerise6250]

@@stagnantfox3027 Europe has not banned GMO. Some European countries have. We have plenty of GMO in Spain.

[@BLAQFiniks]

Well, I, for instance, do not want to eat tomatoes with scorpion gene in them and drink milk that has spider silk in it - those Frankenstein gmo do no one any good... and from grafted fruit seeds you would still get the SAME species of fruit, while from a gmo corn plants grow mutilated stems & flowers~ thanks, but no thanks...

[@stagnantfox3027]

@@BLAQFiniks a lot of things we already have are GMO'd for their survival. Such as bananas for example. They wouldnt exist if not for gmo because of a banana virus that killed almost all bananas at some point not very long ago.

[@a_real_jive_turkey7772]

I'll literally listen to her talk about anything. I love her

[@huldu]

I look forward to grafting of humans. Just imagine the body of an infant with the head of some rich 90 year old person on it. Magnificent.

[@ImmortalAbsol]

Shame that it's the head that causes most the negatives of aging.

[@old-fashionedcoughypot]

Lol! Or (insert name of geriatric rich person of choice) 's head grafted onto a body of an athlete, rippling with muscles & sex appeal.

[@carsonrush3352]

@@old-fashionedcoughypot, we could have saved Stephen Hawking

[@ronkirk5099]

Back in the day when I grew up in Highland, CA, I remember the fragrant smell of the citrus orchard that surrounded our community when the trees were blooming. Unfortunately, we also had to tolerate the heavy pollution laden air when the orchards were frost proofed with diesel heaters at times during the winter. Alas, nearly all the orchards have been cleared to make room for houses.

[@AaronShenghao]

People who said "GMOs are bad" just don't realize they are eating GMOs for years.

[@TheEastwoodMan]

My thoughts exactly! Humans have been doing GMO for millennia!

[@Catlily5]

I am not against all GMO but when you start adding firefly genes into plants it seems iffy.

[@stanpines9011]

@@Catlily5 that's still not harmful at all though

[@Catlily5]

@@stanpines9011 We don't know if it will be harmful. Even if it is not we don't know that mixing human and animal genes won't be harmful in the future.

[@stanpines9011]

@@Catlily5 that might be harmful, yeah, but consuming DNA from another species isn't

[@angelamckenzie5433]

Investing make up the top notch hemisphere of the wealth. That's the more reason one should save and invest to secure profit and ensure success..

[@corywilson2439]

Beautifully said, I tell my folks these words everyday, it's good to save money but most people don't understand the market moves and tend to be mislead in fact's like this and always depend on money in the bank..

[@Akshatzayn-click.image.icon.]

No doubt Crypto has earned me alot, you just have to understand the market..

[@maryannebenneth6456]

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[@brunofernandez8228]

I have been trading for over six months with no returns, rather loss and blown accounts, really heart breaking..

[@corywilson1292]

Wow, that sounds great.

[@Rubbe87]

You can graft any type of cactus despite being totally different species its quite interesting i done a lot. But its best to make the root stock from a fast grower that can take watering quite often and the graft a slow growing rare cacti. I done micro grafts mostly.

[@BookCat18]

🌼🌱🍅

[@Wizofawes]

You can also graft a pollinator branch to help with fruit production. I wish you had gone through the types of grafting, T-budding, tongue and groove, bridging. Thank you tho

[@imorca1994]

Whoa. I don't think this video quite succeeded at translating complex processes into an understandable narrative. There were too many new terms and too many tiny details for it to be useful. While the vocal presentation sought to make each sentence - and perhaps paragraph - "interesting" so as to keep our attention through emphasis, pitch and speed, it lost the forest for the trees. There wasn't a clear overall arc across the entire presentation to channel the contrasts through so that these changes served the large thesis pursued. By about 1/3 through, the purpose/point that this whole production served was getting blurry. Probably too much and too long for many viewers to recall. Now, rewatching or studying carefully are certainly not something to be discouraged. But, we all know ourselves well enough to understand what happens in our own listening...and thus we can recognize these issues as we plan and prepare, when alterations will be the most useful.

[@un0RRS]

The pomato plant is the coolest thing I've ever seen and I want one.

[@albericponcedeleon2696]

Haven't found a single Jojolion reference in the comments. Reality is often disappointing.

[@chill7530]

I was looking for one too.

[@grahamsong4585]

Awesome video. Can you do more plant stuff please? Love it

[@PANDADEVLOPMENT]

AMONG US....................................