I have these photinia bushes all over my property. They look like they have been there for a long time. I was surprised to learn how closely related they are to pears and apples so grafted pears and apple to them.
Below is apple on photinia. I grafted some red fleshed apples to my gala apple tree so I had some gala scions left over from that. Some of them live here now.
For me it’s experimental but I read about this in another forum and according to them they are not only viable but producing fruit every year. That was a huge surprise to me so I decided to try it myself. Anybody who lives in the south typically has Crape Myrtle trees everywhere. I have 5 myself I inherited from the previous owners.
I have found the pinnacle of frankenscience. They have successfully grafted a tomato to a daisy using a tobacco interstem, thereby grafting two completely unrelated families together.
it’s a far distant relative of any bean, but peas are a bit closer. I am growing out some peas of a variety of types to try it. I bet none take, but the tree is big and there’s plenty of room. what kind of graft should I try? cleft maybe? I’ve only ever done one bud graft, but I think this late in season they night be the only option.
peas and beans are annuals here so it’ll die in October no matter what I try.
You’ll probably be limited by the pea stem’s resilience. A whip or splice graft (single sloping cut) is the only thing I can imagine working. That’s the graft used for most tender succulent stemmed veggies- tomatoes, cakes, watermelons. It’d be an interesting experiment,
I can believe that. Honey locust already produces pods that are quite edible and have a high sugar content. Native Americans ate them and they are used for cattle as well.
I have beans just about thick enough to mess with. the black locust is in bloom, so I’m gonna to try one on honey locust in a few days when I have the day off. I think cleft graft is the only way to do it. I’m going to use scarlet runner bean to try with just bc they’re ready
Fig and mulberry are related and the ancients seemed to think they can graft to each other. I have read hops and cannabis can be grafted together. Tomato can be grafted to potato, tobacco, eggplant, goji berry, etc. I think cantaloupe and cucumber can be grafted together. Many possibilities with vegetables. I looked at all that a while ago but I haven’t gotten around to trying it. I am currently trying to graft chestnut to oak. I have read that works but haven’t had a success yet.
One you don’t want to try is tomato grafted to jimson weed. It grows well but produces poisonous tomatoes.
