I need more rootstock and was curious to see how it would go.
Scion has grown enough to be touching both offsets, but most growth has gone into them. Somethings gonna go I think.
Let me know what you would do
Take the tops off those new pups. And take off the peyote pups and make a tri head
CPhaze
Cool little project. I like the suggestions here to make the offsets into peyote bouquets.
Ituzzip
Plants balance their root growth and top growth using hormones… all the pups as well as the main scion produce auxins that basically slow each other down, making sure they keep pace with the roots.
I would remove the branches from the rootstock because they are competing with your scion.
As far as the scion goes, if it produces pups and they appear to outpace them main scion with growth, I don’t see why this is a problem.
First of all pups on a scion can have a false appearance of growing faster than the scion because they are small so it’s easier to observe changes. Part of their vasculature may pass through the scion and be connected directly to the rootstock, so they may grow at the same rate as the scion, but that means their doubling time will be shorter since they started off small. They may never actually catch up to the main scion though.
Second, having pups on the scion does not reduce the total growth of the scion tissue, and this is the part of the plant you want to grow, so why not just let them do that?
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Make new grafting stock
Take the tops off those new pups. And take off the peyote pups and make a tri head
Cool little project. I like the suggestions here to make the offsets into peyote bouquets.
Plants balance their root growth and top growth using hormones… all the pups as well as the main scion produce auxins that basically slow each other down, making sure they keep pace with the roots.
I would remove the branches from the rootstock because they are competing with your scion.
As far as the scion goes, if it produces pups and they appear to outpace them main scion with growth, I don’t see why this is a problem.
First of all pups on a scion can have a false appearance of growing faster than the scion because they are small so it’s easier to observe changes. Part of their vasculature may pass through the scion and be connected directly to the rootstock, so they may grow at the same rate as the scion, but that means their doubling time will be shorter since they started off small. They may never actually catch up to the main scion though.
Second, having pups on the scion does not reduce the total growth of the scion tissue, and this is the part of the plant you want to grow, so why not just let them do that?