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This is a really interesting thread. Are there many other soft-stemmed plants that can be grafted like this? I think I've heard of it with aubergines. Anything else?
When I was a child, my brothers and I all planted narcissi bulbs and kept them on the windowsills by our beds. My older brother's looked like it was going to flower first, and I was so overcome with jealousy (at about 4 or 5 years old) that I decided to just give the stem a little pinch with my fingernails while nobody else was around. Well, it snapped right in two! In a desperate attempt to avoid being discovered, I sellotaped it back together, taking great care to line the ends up exactly. Somehow it didn't die right away, and actually went on to flower, though the flower did fade rather quickly!
At one point, my mother brought all of the plants together because between them they showed each stage of the flowering process - brother one's fading, brother two's in full flower, and mine in bud. She was holding them aloft and waving them about and I was sure she was going to see the sellotape, but apparently not. (Indeed, many years after the event, it occurred to me that she absolutely knew, and was waving them about in the hope of identifying the guilty party - though she has no recollection of it, so maybe I really did get away with it!)
When I was a child, my brothers and I all planted narcissi bulbs and kept them on the windowsills by our beds. My older brother's looked like it was going to flower first, and I was so overcome with jealousy (at about 4 or 5 years old) that I decided to just give the stem a little pinch with my fingernails while nobody else was around. Well, it snapped right in two! In a desperate attempt to avoid being discovered, I sellotaped it back together, taking great care to line the ends up exactly. Somehow it didn't die right away, and actually went on to flower, though the flower did fade rather quickly!
At one point, my mother brought all of the plants together because between them they showed each stage of the flowering process - brother one's fading, brother two's in full flower, and mine in bud. She was holding them aloft and waving them about and I was sure she was going to see the sellotape, but apparently not. (Indeed, many years after the event, it occurred to me that she absolutely knew, and was waving them about in the hope of identifying the guilty party - though she has no recollection of it, so maybe I really did get away with it!)
Formerly self-contained, but expanding my gardening horizons beyond pots!
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