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grafting white-ash onto green-ash
I do not know if anyone has tried this before and been successful. Next
year I am giving it a try because green-ash is abundant but white-ash is rare here. I am going to try it on a white-ash cultivar of autumn-purple. I realize they are different species but as in the case of the animal world or cross species hybrids. So I would think that the plant kingdom would be more "plastic" as to cross speciation than the animal kingdom. And since greenash and whiteash are so much alike, I would hazard to guess that it is not a 100% failure to graft. BTW, has anyone designed a honeylocust cultivar that is reddish leaves in color? Instead of the Sunburst yellow leaves, I am looking for the red leaves. Archimedes Plutonium www.archimedesplutonium.com www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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grafting white-ash onto green-ash
Another one of your half-ash ideas, Archie?
"Archimedes Plutonium" wrote in message ... I do not know if anyone has tried this before and been successful. Next year I am giving it a try because green-ash is abundant but white-ash is rare here. I am going to try it on a white-ash cultivar of autumn-purple. I realize they are different species but as in the case of the animal world or cross species hybrids. So I would think that the plant kingdom would be more "plastic" as to cross speciation than the animal kingdom. And since greenash and whiteash are so much alike, I would hazard to guess that it is not a 100% failure to graft. BTW, has anyone designed a honeylocust cultivar that is reddish leaves in color? Instead of the Sunburst yellow leaves, I am looking for the red leaves. Archimedes Plutonium www.archimedesplutonium.com www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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grafting white-ash onto green-ash
Archimedes Plutonium wrote in message ...
I do not know if anyone has tried this before and been successful. Next year I am giving it a try because green-ash is abundant but white-ash is rare here. I am going to try it on a white-ash cultivar of autumn-purple. I realize they are different species but as in the case of the animal world or cross species hybrids. So I would think that the plant kingdom would be more "plastic" as to cross speciation than the animal kingdom. And since greenash and whiteash are so much alike, I would hazard to guess that it is not a 100% failure to graft. BTW, has anyone designed a honeylocust cultivar that is reddish leaves in color? Instead of the Sunburst yellow leaves, I am looking for the red leaves. Archimedes Plutonium www.archimedesplutonium.com www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies Desirable White Ash (Fraxinus americana) varieties are often propagated by budding on Green Ash (F. pennsylvanica) rootstock. See an article on "chip budding", a useful technique for this form of propagation in cold-winter Midwest locales, at http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/horticulture/g1518.htm There are some coppery honeylocust varieties, but no really red ones. Bright red fall color comes from anthocyanin pigments, which honeylocust doesn't produce (at least not in sufficient quantity to make a show). -- Chris Green |
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grafting white-ash onto green-ash
Archimedes Plutonium wrote in message ...
[snip] Perhaps rate of growth is want underlies the yellowish color of Sunburst cultivar. Maybe Sunburst rate is slower than normal and as such yellow. So slow is yellow, and normal growth is green and fast is red. No such relation, red new growth is normally juvenile chlorophylls. Red new growth does not translate to red fall color: they are different pigments produced by different means altogether. -- Chris Green |
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grafting white-ash onto green-ash
Christopher Green wrote: Archimedes Plutonium wrote in message ... [snip] Perhaps rate of growth is want underlies the yellowish color of Sunburst cultivar. Maybe Sunburst rate is slower than normal and as such yellow. So slow is yellow, and normal growth is green and fast is red. No such relation, red new growth is normally juvenile chlorophylls. Red new growth does not translate to red fall color: they are different pigments produced by different means altogether. -- Chris Green That is interesting and explains the reddish new leaves of apricot trees. Archimedes Plutonium www.archimedesplutonium.com www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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