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I have a Tree Habanero (Habanero Arbol) that is 2-3 yrs. old.
It puts out peppers that start out green and purple,then turn yellow and ripen to be orange peppers.
The tree gets 7ft. high when I don't trim it.
I am going to try and graft all my other habanero pepper plants to it.
One plant growing branches of other peppers(paper lanterns,red,orange,chocolate and white habs,mushroom peppers and a couple more.)
If/when the chinense all take I'll try and add other peppers-Jalapino,anaheim etc.
Get as many different peppers growing on one tree as I can.
The seed that grew the tree was from a plant that was about 8ft.tall and was supposed to be 13 yrs. old.
Does anyone know anything about grafting hot peppers?
Any kind of juice to give the plant before,during,after I start grafting?
Any hints etc.
How close together,in space(close together on a branch) and time can I do the grafts?
Should I wait between grafts for any period of time before adding a new graft?
Once I graft a branch on can I graft a branch to the healed grafted branch?
Can I graft a branch to a plant in the ground, then graft that branch to the tree once it's healed(killing 2 birds with 1 stone-adding 2 kinds of pepper to the tree at once using 1 graft).
If the tree successfully accepts the grafts and I decide that it's getting old,do you think I could graft it to new rootstock (another tree habanero from the original plants seed) to keep it growing for a longer time period?
That way I wouldn't have wasted possibly years of work grafting stuff to the tree only to have it die of old age.
What does grafting do to the rootstocks plant and the grafted bud?
Do they stay true to their species or do I get some kind of mutant peppers growing off the grafted branches?
Does it change the host plant?
Do I still get peppers?
Will the seeds be sterile from a grafted pepper?
Will the pepper seeds be some kind of hybrid-from the grafted branch?
T= tree habanero
g1=graft branch from plant #1
g2=graft branch from plant #2
g1 and g2 are different varieties of pepper plant.
Will I get different peppers if I graft
g2 to T then graft g1 to g2
than if I grafted
g1 to T then grafted g2 to g1?
Both grafts will allow each branch to have it's own growth-let it produce peppers-each has branches of it's own.
Would it make a difference if g1 and g2 were red habanero and orange habanero as opposed to g1 being red habanero and g2 being a mushroom pepper as far as the possibility of comming out with mutant peppers,hybrids or whatever?
Could my main plant get a disease or whatever from a grafted plant? (disease not caused by a dirty cutting knife-one from the bud/plant to be grafted to the tree)
If so,can I just cut off the branch the graft is on to eliminate the problem or would the tree be infected?
If the tree is resitant to certain viruses will the grafts become resistant too?
Say I graft a branch that has tmv to the tree.(I'll probably be grafting new plants,seedlings cut off at the trunk, to the tree,I think they might be less prone to carrying diseases,haven't been exposed to aphids etc.grown indoors).
The tree is resistant,will it cure the branch,let the virus grow only in the grafted branch,or spread to the tree and all the other grafts.
My tree Habanero pretty much puts out peppers year round(Though less in the winter),will the grafts put out peppers year round too?
I've read a lot of stuff about grafting.
Peppers can be grafted-supposed to be easy,not a hard plant to graft successfully.So I've read...
Just use good,healthy buds and keep everything as clean as possible.
I've never heard of anyone attempting to graft several different varieties to one pepper plant.
I've done it/multiple grafts to cactus and seen multiple apple varieties done with apple trees.
I guess thats all my questions for now.
Anything I haven't considered?
This should be fun and lots of work.
I'm going to plant several tree habanero tree plants to graft other peppers to.
Then I'll cut them off at the trunk and graft them to the tree.
See if the tree accepts that easier than straight grafts to it of other varieties.
What time of year would be best to start my project?
I wonder what the record is for the number of different flavors of hot peppers to one plant is.
Egore get my scalpel!
Bwahhaaaahaaaahaaa
This message was edited Sep 16, 2007 4:27 PM
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