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Sunday, March 16, 2025
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big moon
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Bethlehem CT
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Grafting doesn’t have to be pretty. You can see how ugly these grafts are! The most important factor with grafting is good contact of the vascular tissue, then comes high humidity and warmth for proper healing. I decided to do the one cotyledon graft on these because the squash rootstock and the watermelons were a pretty good match in terms of hypocotyl diameter. After spending almost a week in the healing chamber they are ready to get potted up and put in the greenhouse. You can see some have failed to take. But I wanted to keep it real with you and show you that too! Sometimes I get 100 percent other times... I don't. Not exactly sure what happened, the more you grafting yoo do, the better feel you get for it. I will be doing my giant watermelons this week and the seedlings and cotyledons look a lot better, So I feel really confident after this test run. Seedless are the hardest to do in my experience. The giant watermelon seeds were germinated at a cooler temperature (80degrees) and they all have nicely shaped cotyledon leaves. For some reason my cotyledon leaves come out a little messed up when I germinate them too hot. (in the 90's).
Seedless will not tolerate cooler germination temps. Even at 80 degrees I may have had some issues. At 90 I got 100 Percent germ.
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