Ginko Biloba Grafting??

levi_bonsai

Hay Hay
anyone know how a ginko takes to grafting
any special tecniques or any really good portion of the season that works the best.
I found a 100 year old plus tree in the area and wanted to try grafting to enhance the shape and branch structure of my ginko any body have any thoughts or experience out there

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Bonsai-gecko

If you attempt to graft with ginkgo, I would highy recommend sticking to "thread" grafting of branches. Ginkgo wounds don't heal over in quite the same way as other trees, and other grafting techniques will likely leave very visable scars.

I'm not sure how well grafting takes on ginkgo, hopefully someone else with experience can give more information

Drakkn

At our last Bonsai club meeting we learned a little about grafting. Some of the practice material was Ginko. We did a side vineer graft fairly close to the soil line. This was done with appoximately 8" plants. My instructor told me he has almost 100% success rate with Ginko. I don't know what my success rate will be
He does this for a living so my success rate may be a bit lower. I was told the grafting was to insure that they were male plants. The stock we were grafting onto the unknown sex was known male. I understand the flowers of the female get very stinky years down the road.
-Tom

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I dunno' about the flowers, but the fruit stinks terribly. That I know from experience.

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Drakkn

Maybe it was the fruit that he told me was stinky. I was concentrating more on the technique than why we were doing it.

riprap

Someone gave me twigs of a named ginkgo cultivar. Rather than trusting that I could root them as cuttings, I made a cleft graft at the top of an older, not-very-special ginkgo in a nursery can. Smooth healing or hiding the scar was not an issue; I just wanted the small branches to survive so I would have propagating material in the future. I sealed the job with a big gobbet of grafting wax. One scion took, the other didn't. I think alignment of the cambium was the difference. With better technique, I think you could rate grafting of ginkgo as Easy and expect a high percentage of success.

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rowan57

Sorry if this is old but by do you mean the Ginkgo Biloba (I believe the only Ginkgo Cultivar in existence?)

Thanks
Rowan

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TreeBay

Ginkgo biloba is the only Ginkgo species that (still) exists. A cultivar is a named variety, of which there are at least several dozen types.

Kazuki turned me onto a site that had some variegated ginkgo and I bought one with stripes for my wife! In spring it is striped green and yellow like this. Later it will be a bit different.

I have the site address around here somewhere.

Those holes are from a slug attack last weekend!

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Matt

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