- Introduction to Cuttings and Grafting: Episode 5 of “Seed Saving Tips” with Mark from Self-Sufficient Me focuses on the techniques of cuttings and grafting as a method to propagate fruit trees and plants. These methods allow gardeners to create new plants that are clones of the original, skipping the juvenile growth phase and accelerating fruit production.
- Simplicity for Home Gardeners: While acknowledging that grafting can range from simple to complex, Mark emphasizes keeping the process uncomplicated for average backyard growers. This approach facilitates the growth of food plants by leveraging existing ones, making the process more accessible and manageable.
- Benefits of Using Cuttings: The primary advantage of using cuttings is the reduced time to maturity for the plant, leading to quicker fruit bearing. Cuttings from a mature plant maintain their maturity level even when grafted onto younger rootstocks, bypassing the slow juvenile phase.
- Practical Demonstrations and Tips: Mark illustrates his points with various examples, including a dragon fruit cutting beginning to root and a mulberry tree propagation. He also discusses the use of rooting hormones and creating a conducive environment for rooting, like covering cuttings with a plastic bottle half to retain moisture.
- Final Thoughts on Seed Saving Series: In concluding the series, Mark reflects on the overall goal of seed saving and propagation techniques covered across the episodes, emphasizing their importance for sustaining and multiplying food plant varieties efficiently and cost-effectively in home gardens.
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Mark, I took lemon seeds from the lemon I got at a restaurant. Then I germinated and sprouted them. They are little tiny shoots right now. After potting them, I learned about 'true-to-type' and realized my commercial lemon might never bear fruit. All this to say, this video encourages me that if I nuture them and never get good fruit, at least I can get root stock from them.
Hi all,
Does anyone have knowledge of a known hardwood/ semi-hardwood fruiting species Compatibility Guide for grafting?
Example: (Pear > Quince) (Peach > Plum).
Watched the 5 in a row, thats my youtube quota for now. Always enjoy your channel(s)
Excellent overview! I learned something that has inspired me! Thanks, Mark!
Thank you so much for this series I watched all 5 today, glad you did in sections so I could pace myself and get my chores done, lol. I love how you've organized your seeds in file order. I would need to separate each by season as well to remind me what gets planted when.
Do you have to use the hormone powder?
A great series. Thanks for the info
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Thank you. This 5 part series has been so beneficial to my gardening. Now i know what I can do.
Hello Mark, what a great and comprehensive series on seed saving.
My grandmother is still growing plants from seeds that "expired" more than 5 years ago 🤣
Wow! I love your seed library. Great job!
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!! WHAT IS THE SHELF LIFE OF CUTTINGS, IF NOT USED? HOW LONG CAN I STORE IT?
Awesome series, Mark. Thank you so much. I'll be watching this again and sharing.
Did you know that seeds found in ancient Egyptian pyramids have been known to grow?
Hey Mark! This series came up on my search results for seed saving spinach. I watched all 5 eps and loved it!
I totally agree with a lot of your points. My mother in law gave me some random bitter gourd seeds to grow here in London, UK. Germination was hard as they were given to me in a rotting tissue last autumn. I cleaned and re-dried them for storage. I tried several in soil and only one germinated and survived. I tried the wet tissue method and got another two plants.
She loves our garden and what we are growing so then turns up with two mango seeds her friend from Goa brought back from his family home that they ate and now she wants me to grow them. Here in the UK….
Firstly, i am not sure how i can legally do that but secondly she is in her late 70's expecting a mango. Bless her though. I said that i would dry it out and plant it.
That being said, my dwarf cherry tree, before it decided that it didn't want to produce again in a very large pot, before we knew much about gardening, self seeded itself. On it's second year now, so next year i will plant it into the ground and see what happens. We transferred the big dwarf cherry tree to a bed but it hasn't done anything this year. Our pear tree sapling the same age now has 5 pears left and i am happy.
Slowly getting good compost into the other clay beds.
This series was so helpful! This is the first year I have been saving seeds. Thanks!
Great series
Ooohhh.I never thought about growing grapes from cuttings..💚Interesting about the lime tree
I’m not bilateral, see what I love❤
As a gardener, love your garden ❤
I have really enjoyed your videos. Reminds me of how my mother did. Thank you so much for these!😀🇺🇸💙
Thank you so much for all the info.
Says doomday preppers nekk minnut conjob19 kicked in haha
If you can't get ahold of rooting powder, raw honey does the job!😊
Hi Mark, I've just finished watching your 5 part series and am amazed at your brilliant narrative that keeps me glued to your presentation, apart from all that there is so much helpful and wonderful information, you are so motivating and inspirational, I think I've seen ep 1 before but not the rest, more power to you and I wish you and your family a very merry Christmas and a satisfying and self sufficient new year today's date is 20/12 202, cheers😄🥰💗👍🐈⬛🍀🍒🍓🫐🥝🍅🥥🥑🍆🥕🌽🎄too many vegies to include bye !!!
this series is great .learned so much. thankyou for this video
Such a blessing to live somewhere you can garden all year long! 🙏
Hi mark,how do you take cuttings from a blackberry bush
g'day mark, sam from hervey bay here again would love to see a "super cut" of all 5 episodes.