grafting

[manicat]

i want to know if anyone has any experience grafting chilli plants and does it make much difference to vigour and yield also what root stocks work best

 

[Nova]

No experiance here but if i had to pick a root stock it would be a year old Tabasco that was grown in full sun in the ground, grown in Australia by myself.

 

[Justaguy]

hmmm I wonder if you can graft a Fatalli to a Jimmy Nardello Sweet pepper?

 

[Chillihead_benny]

hmmm I wonder if you can graft a Fatalli to a Jimmy Nardello Sweet pepper?

sure! graffting is fun.... the woodier the stock the better... i'v done that with my wifes various kinds of lilacs and butterfly bushes.. think a well established plant is the key.....

 

[synclinorium]

I might experiment with grafting at some point... I'm very curious about the couple papers I've read on graft-induced hybridization in peppers. It doesn't exactly sound practical as a hybridizing technique, but it seems there's some evidence to suggest that grafting a cotelydon-stage or otherwise early-growth scion onto one of the growing points of a much older plant can lead to one-way migration of genetic material into the scion growth beyond simple chimerism.

Sounds like something out of science-fiction to me, but there might be some merit to it.

 

[Bleash]

I've seen this issue raised in this forum a couple of times before in the past.

Some of the members actually made some experiences but as far as I know none had success.

It's a very interesting idea but it might be more trickier than one could expect at first.
We need a member that can sacrifice a couple of plants until he finds what works for this.

Bleash