I, Farm Boy! Grafting of Fruit Seedlings Results in Early Harvesting

Grafting, or the plant propagation technique of implanting a mature flowering twig into a young seedling, allows the farmer to harvest earlier shortening the fruit tree maturity period by as much as five years.

It also ensures the farmer of consistency in the quality and sweetness of the fruit because the grafted seedling is virtually the old tree transplanted in a young rootstock.

Planting seeds taken from a Sweet Jackfruit is not the wisest thing a farmer could do because it would take years before fruiting and the fruits may not be as sweet as the Mother Tree.

Unless the flowering fruit trees are carefully protected from cross-pollination, there is no assurance that the fruit tree planted from seeds would be “true to type” or a faithful genetic version of the mother tree.

A Jackfruit directly planted from seeds may take 8 years before it becomes productive while a Grafted Jackfruit would start fruit bearing at 3 years.

A grafted Hass Avocado, on the other hand, starts flowering at 18 months, shortening the maturity period by about 6 years.

This simple technique called Grafting, along with Marcotting and Enarching, is one of the greatest technological innovations in agriculture.

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