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Sun, Nov 30, 14 at 14:44
| My brother has had success tissue cloning from fruit trees. I would like to do this further but do I have to wait for spring or can he work from dormant tree clippings? Thanks! |
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| Tobey, I have no experience with plant tissue culture, but grafting/budding, which has been done for thousands of years, is essentially 'cloning' - effected by grafting/budding a piece of material from a plant with known characteristics onto an appropriate understock. Routinely performed with dormant cuttings... |
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