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Most fruit is grown from grafts off the same original plant to maintain the taste. I imagine that is probably the most reliable way to propagate these, assumin
by war1025 7y ago
Most fruit is grown from grafts off the same original plant to maintain the taste.
I imagine that is probably the most reliable way to propagate these, assuming they can get cuttings to root, which I'd think they could.
I'm sure they will cross-breed them with each other though, at least at some point.
- progre 7y agoYou'd still need a female tree to get any fruits though, right?
- fortran77 7y agoIf they can get the cuttings to root that would work, but grafting them to other root stock could be problematic depending on what they use: https://www.ou.org/torah/files/grafting-and-interspecies-trees.pdf https://www.ou.org/torah/files/grafting-and-interspecies-tre... AFAIK, Date Palms are usually not grafted.
- vikramkr 7y agoI believe Date palms are cultivated from offshoots generally, not cuttings or grafting (no branches etc to graft on, palms don't really work to graft onto). And as a quick point of clarification, grafting has nothing to do with rooting cuttings, the wording kind of linked those together. Tissue culture might work as a method of asexual propogation as well.