thanks for the vote of confidence! Have to say though i was actually hoping you(considering your degree in botany), or someone else-- would ‘argue’ with me, lol! Btw, what trees do you grow?
anyway, tell me if your mom is interested. Jujubes are great trees to have, be it here or any other zone(the ultimate temperate tree in my humble opinion), but yes, jujus do shed their leaves in winter, and can be thorny, depending on cultivar.
that is a loaded question. I actually don’t have much to say about it other than being extremely curious. Especially with regards to projected lifespan and if it actually reverts the clone into seedling status that actually undergoes a juvenile phase.
all can say is that even though tissue culture hormones/rooting hormones known to science are quite effective in inducing some degree of juvenility, it is quite likely there are other hormones produced by seedling rootstock that are yet unidentified. Tissues from senesced avocado trees have been shown not to respond to available laboratory hormones. The senesced clone will have to be grafted to seedlings first, sometimes serially, before clonal cells start responding to laboratory hormones(callusing then differentiating into root buds and leaf/stem buds)
and below are some of my arguments against the notion that any clone taken(airlayer/root sucker) from a mother plant will get rejuvenated by the very act of separating from mother plant. I actually think the clones are the same age as the tree they were obtained from–unless grafted to recently sown seedling rootstock.
5$ for a few pieces. I guess it is sold at a premium since most trees are now fast asleep. It does look like dong zao(i didn’t buy as suspect these aren’t at their prime, probably transported across pacific ocean–from china)
if you’re a visual learner, not sure if you’re already doing it but you could slow it down by running the video at 0.5x or 0.75x speed.
as for bare-bones version, am afraid that wouldn’t be possible. I arranged that in the most economical way–just enough bass and rhythm guitar accompaniment for the melody. Whittling it further would result in conspicuous gaps…
btw, i presume you’re familiar with guitar chords?
figured doing a print screen of this shanxi li natural espalier(couldn’t find the original photo). The laterals attained 4 feet long and at this stage, quite trainable by splinting and strategic pruning.
Will espalier jujus once we move to another property.
I am familiar with basic chords. Strumming is easy for me, but fingerstyle play hurts my left fingers. My friend was also asking if you have tabs for your arrangements.
are your strings metal–all 6 of them? Will pm you the basic chords when get the chance.
sorry i dont do tabs… Have you tried running the video at half speed? You could pretty much come up with the tab just by watching in slow-mo. Doing so would also facilitate learning the piece as you go
while braiding juju stems tight look cool instantly , braiding loose(here just a simple figure-of-8) will create a much longer-lasting cosmetic effect. Tight-braiding of uprights will soon auto-graft into a single trunk and lose the twisty appearance, but braiding them with a sizeable gap will nicely form a tree-trunk portal to another dimension…
graftage of two different cultivars or species is easily the most ancient form of biotechnology. Unfortunately a type of segmental graft so the the chances of producing a blended chimera is slim. Braiding is also grafting, but it is oriented longitudinally and spirally so hopefully the meristems coordinate to form an adventitious node that will have cells of two cultivars blended into one.
stems(both of contorted cultivar) fused into one, after 5 yrs of braiding
you got it! Hoping it will develop adventitious nodes where the cells are twirled and thinly insinuated.
a regular graft is nothing more than a parfait, where the two different organisms are well delineated and layered horizontally-- and only at the tips, whereas a braided graft is more like a mocha twirl. So just hoping the twirl gets shook up more into a milkshake
while adventitious buds may develop from stems(outside of the usual locations of juju uprights and laterals) it rarely occurs above root level. The roots seem to exhibit more plasticity and spontaneity, especially when severed from main tree, so my next project would be to grow desired cultivars on their own roots, then braid the roots…
will probably take a lifetime still, lol
Makes me wonder what the cross section and longitudinal section of the five year old braid would look like now that it is fused into one. They didnt teach us that in histology class!
I figure the lumber will have a tiger stripe appearance since there will be several sheets of heartwood and sapwood forming
Would you have a bare bones version?
