Grafting experiment

[fluidfarms]

So I have found grafting to be fascinating in the plant world. I've grafted Japanese maples and various tomatoes.
So I have been curious about trying my hand at coral grafting.
I have wondered if toadstool species could be grafted. I thought about grafting stalks to stalks, flesh to flesh, etc.

So I started my first experiment on a white polyp toadstool and a yellow polyp.
I used a biopsy punch to cut plugs of each and transplant them in the opposite holes.

It could be/ probably will be a failure. But gotta start somewhere. So far, each coral doesn't seem to hate having the foreign plug in there. But time will tell.

 

[fluidfarms]

In a previous life, I was a fisheries biologist and we used these biopsy punches to remove tissue samples from fish and release them alive.
So I figured that I would start with one of these.

 

[Spooky]

Very interested and will be following along. How were your results grafting the Maples and Tomatoes?

 

[jah-hoeva]

Interesting.

 

[fluidfarms]

Grafting plants was a little easier and there's much more literature out there on it. I usually used green stage and semi- woody stage cuttings to do the maples. I made a few dozen and got a handful to survive. I am certainly no expert. Just having a little fun.

 

[aresangel]

How are you fixing the plug in the hole? It looks like it will fall right out.

 

[Alberto780]

Interesting will be following this keep us up to date please

 

[fluidfarms]

How are you fixing the plug in the hole? It looks like it will fall right out.

The holes were both cut with the same punch. So they swelled back up around the plug. I have them in a tank with super low flow at the moment.

 

[fluidfarms]

I might put a dab of glue on the backside just to tack the next batch in place. Not sure. More experiments in the future I guess!

 

[CAPSLOCK]

I'm interested in seeing how this works out.

 

[this is me]

Forget the corals.
Let's talk about Japanese Maples. What type of JM have you crafted? I have over 30 trees in my property and a couple of species which I really like. I plan on getting into grafting to have a back up just in case.

 

[fluidfarms]

Well, the plug did fall out last night when it closes its polyps after dark. Ill have to maybe glue the next one or make the new hole smaller........
back to the drawing board.

 

[fluidfarms]

Forget the corals.
Let's talk about Japanese Maples. What type of JM have you crafted? I have over 30 trees in my property and a couple of species which I really like. I plan on getting into grafting to have a back up just in case.

Forget the corals.
Let's talk about Japanese Maples. What type of JM have you crafted? I have over 30 trees in my property and a couple of species which I really like. I plan on getting into grafting to have a back up just in case.

Ive only done the blood good variety jm to both a green jm and a red maple. I found the green jm growing on the side of a nasty urban streambank in Rye new york when I was doing s stream surveys. Someone must have dumped it there. So I took clippings of it on the way home.

 

[fluidfarms]

Aquaponics was my first passion before really diving into the reef hobby.

 

[fluidfarms]

14months old, hybrid striped bass

 

[fluidfarms]

Ok so I tried 3 more different grafts. I attempted to attach a small toadstool to the stalk of a larger toadstool. I cut a the smaller toadstool stalk into a wedge. Then I cut a little slit in the stalk of the larger toad and used a dab of glue outside the cut ties hold it in place.

The next two I attempted to grafting two pieces of the top together. One with elastics the other used a couple days of glue.
Just seeing it any of these work. Not even sure of the two toadstools are closely related enough for it to work. Just experimenting.

 

[Chris A.]

You could also use a plastic toothpick to hold them together.

 

[fluidfarms]

great idea. ill try that next

 

[Spooky]

Those are some seriously sexy roots on those plants.

 

[ReeferSutherland]

Wow cool experiment! Looks like the rubber band one will work! but the stalk one probably not...


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