Honeyberry as we know can be grafted to invasive honeysuckle. Many years ago in the early 2000s, i was not alone when i thought it might be possible to do this. Honeyberries were only offered in a couple of places. I did try growing honeyberry but they were unable to survive the hot kansas sun. Currents and gooseberries are very similar on their needs. That being said i never actually grafted them.
I was sure it could be done since they are both honeysuckle. Well years later and lots of posts later it was done in 2015 & 2016 by lots of people who had the same idea or read my idea somewhere and tried it with some success Grafting honeyberry onto honeysuckle? (propagation forum at permies)
We also know goumi can be grafted to autumn olive. Callery are frequently used as pear rootstock. Che can be grafted to osage orange with some success. All this being said why would we use these types of trees? The truth is like mulberry there are plenty of them and that makes the price right for everyone. Since there are established roots of invasive honeysuckle this means this might be well worth your time to try it.
I’m curious if the vine could pollenate the honeyberry and produce viable seeds … would be interesting hybrid if so. The Bloom times are so far off though which is unfortunate
You can really taste the poison in invasive honeysuckle berries. They are extremely bitter. My sister decided one day she wanted me to try one to find out if we could eat them. Let’s just say we stuck to mulberries and other edible wild fruits. Thankfully, i wasn’t extremely sick from it. I would not want them to cross. The brother was always the daring one in our family.
Oh weird, I don’t think I’ve ever seen berries on the honeysuckle vine in my area that get the yellow /white flowers they smell amazing. As kids we would pull the flowers off and suck the nectar out from the back.
Very cool. Maybe this is what I do to with the rental neighbors invasive honeysuckles “hedges” on my property line. Could this be summer grafted or wait until next year?
I’m not so sure I would want to be the guinea pig to test whether the rootstock was able to pass through any toxicity. Probably there are elements to grafting I’m still completely ignorant of, but I doubt it is always the best (in human eyes) qualities retained of both parties in the union.