advantages of grafting ????
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Despite being labor intensive, grafting is commonly undertaken as a means of vegetative propagation of woody plants for any or all of the following reasons:
(1) to impart disease resistance or hardiness, contributed by the rootstock.
(2) to shorten the time taken to first production of flowers or fruits by the scion, in some cases by many years;
(3) to dwarf the scion, making both its height and shape more convenient for harvesting fruit, as with apples;
(4) to allow scion cultivars to retain their desirable leaf, floral, or fruit characters, without the risk of these being lost through sexual reproduction.
(5) to provide the most economic use of scion material, in cases where there is some difficulty with stem cuttings producing roots.
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1)Grafting is the fastest way of growing popular, desirable varieties of fruiting trees & flowering shrubs on a large scale.
2)Many commercially valuable plants are difficult to grow by other propagation methods like cutting & layering, but they respond well to grafting.
3)Scions are highly precious varieties, but the usually have poor rooting system, less vigor & weak defence against pathogens. All these flaws can be overcome by grafting them on the stock, which is usually a hardy, wild relative of a scion.
4)Grafting is a way of cloning a scion variety to maintain the consistency of characters such as size, color, flavours, etc.
5)With gardener’s curiosity, multiple varieties of different scions can be grafted on single stock plant; trees can be given ornamental shapes, etc.