Do-it-Yourself: Grafting in Vegetables
This first chapter in vegetable grafting in divided in to 2 sections – First is Classroom session and Second is Workshop session.
Learning Objective:
To enable course participants gain conceptual understanding of grafting in vegetables, it’s methods and procedures.
Chapter Content :
- What is Vegetable Grafting?
- Basic Inputs required
- Types of grafting
- Grafting in solanaceous and cucurbits crops
- Method demonstrations of grafting
Chapter coverage:
Class room session –
- What is vegetable grafting?
- Basic requirement of grafting
- Grafting in cucurbits – Grafting methods
- Hole insertion
- One Cotyledon
- Tongue approach
- Result Demonstration
- Hole insertion grafting method
- Tongue approach grafting method
- Methods comparison
- Root pruning
- Detail discussion on: One Cotyledon grafting method
- Grafting in Solanaceous
- Cleft or Wedge grafting method
- Tongue approach method
- Splice method (one cotyledon) Detail discussion
Workshop Session –
- Demonstration of Grafting: Solanaceous Crops
- Splice grafting method
- Demonstration of Grafting: Cucurbits Crops
- Hole insertion grafting method
- One cotyledon grafting method
- Method Demonstration
- Importance of holding parts and alignment
- Need of plastic supporting sticks & precautions
- Precautions
