I Tried Grafting Monstera Deliciosa Onto Pothos
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- This video started with the idea of "can you re attach broken plants?" so i tried a few techniques to see if i could repair them and it lead to more.
Monstera Deliciosa grafted onto pothos? I tried grafting pothos to pothos and monstera to pothos in this video. This is just a first attempt but I want to pursue this topic more and see if I can get aroids to graft. Ive seen a lot of success with cactus but I wanna see what we can do with aroids. I also wanna try re attaching a much larger monstera and seeing if it will take.
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Last year, I grafted christmas cuctus onto dragon fruit. What happened was the christmad cactus behaved like the dragon fruit. It was growing larger, had pads growing from multiple nodes. Which I've never seen before. The pads that I propogated from this plant grew faster than any of the others. Worked out fantastic. Still alive and getting so big.
wow! I have both so now i wanna try
I wonder if the dragon fruit cactus has more/different hormones that encouraged the growth of the christmas cactus? Or maybe the dragon fruit cactus is just a lot better at absorbing and moving nutrients around
Grafting queen of the night and christmas cactus into dragonfruit rootstock is actually recommended.
Mine is queen of the night, grafted into dragonfruit. It has much better growth rate compared to normal queen of the night, more resistant to drought, and much easier to maintain (dragonfruit's roots have higher tolerance to humidity and waterlogged soil)
Interesting experiment!
Well that's an interesting one, I did some research about grafting aroids during the aroid craze and did a few experiments myself. Monocots in general are difficult to impossible to graft because their vascular bundles do not form a dense ring like in dicots but are scatered across the whole section of the stem. When you grat a cactus for example, as long as the two rings cross, at least some bundles will attach to each other and feed the scion. On an aroid the bundles are so scattered you have very few chances that enough of them meet to feed the scion.
And it's not like scientists havent tried, if we manage to graft monocots it will be an agricultural revolution, you could grow anything anywere (especially cereals) with the right rootstock but it's very, very difficult and not possible on a large scale. Recently (DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-04247-y) scientists have found you can actually graft monocots at the embryonic root-shoot interface, meaning it's still impossible to graft adult plants, only seedlings.
Wow thank you for this info. I'm wondering if you can work hard to align them but it wouldn't not be feasible at scale. Like basically surgery on each one lol. Thanks for this info tho it will aide me in part 2 I really appreciate it
@@TechplantChannel I cant find the paper but I have seen seedlings grafted on Monstera petiole.
There was an aroid craze and this is the first I'm hearing about it!?
But seriously, I'd be interested to hear what you would say has been the most interesting thing to pique your interest recently
@@aname939 girl how’d you miss the aroid craze that sh*^ scarred
the plant community 💀
@@TechplantChannel if you partially break an aroid, or fully break a variegated plant, you can reattach (line the variegation up on the fully broken stem) by wrapping and splinting, but that's just because everything already lines up. I wouldn't think you could take out a section and then put it back together, and if you did, you probably wouldn't want to use the wedge or slotting methods. Idk. Very interesting! I'm currently learning about grafting because my absolute favorite pink princess leaf so far was unfortunately snapped upon assisted removal from its sheath. I kind of left it the way it was with very little hope, only to see the leaf continue to unwrap! Come to find out they do heal themselves, and I probably could've helped it happen more seamlessly if I'd wrapped and splinted
Update: the leaf stopped unfurling, and when I untaped it today, I found the parts that had been severed had calloused over. If I had taped and splinted it immediately, I feel like I could've saved the leaf, but left to its own devices, it couldn't make the jump from severed, hanging stem to rejoined stem. Because the leaf is so beautiful, once the new leaf is ready to come out, I'm going to pop it in some nutrient solution to see if I can get it to unfurl all the way and turn into a lil desk ornament
Wow great, man made horrors beyond my comprehension!
literally
Lmaooo
Plants and unspeakable horrors: right up my alley!
Literally any commercial avocado or fruit fruit tree is grafted
Aw sweet
Because of the lack of cambium it is impossible to graft monocots. I tried as well, splitting monstera stems and putting them back the same way, they are unable to heal, Monocots lack the ability to heal and form a scar. I gave up a bit too fast since many scientists say it's impossible. Hope you manage to find a way!
Does it only work when partially broken?? I've got a broken petiole right now that seems to be healing itself because the new leaf is still unfolding. Is this false hope?
I think that you'll have better luck attaching smaller plants to larger ones. Looks like the monstera may have been trying to work out, but not getting enough fluids from the pothos.
If you want a type of plant to really get into grafting with, give ficus a try. It's a huge genus with a lot of success stories, a ton of variation in size, growth habit, and foliage, and a lot of very hardy plants that are very easily available. I've always been curious personally about seeing a miniature ficus tree (in the area of a bonsai or something) grafted with oak leaf creeping fig in places. Would the creeping lengths, assuming they take off, climb around the other branches? Stick to the trunk like an ivy? Or would they try to drape straight down like a willow? Regardless, it would be spectacular.
This is cool. Reminds me of one of my archived video ideas: "Creating a Biological Monster (Grafting Moon Cacti onto Everything)" lol
Lmao you gotta
Try leaving both plants on their rootstock and take a thin slice from each where the branches touch in near parallel. Once the graft union heals you can prune out one rootstock and the opposite scion.
This is why you're my favorite plant CZcamsr. You always give evidence backed advice and your studies are fascinating to see. Now this...I think you posted your Halloween episode too early
I know you used plastic wrap so you could preserve moisture and also easily unwrap, but I've had good success by wrapping stuff in 3M micropore paper tape. If you have the patience to wait for growth and don't need/want to check the cut site's progress, the paper tape is sticky enough, breathable enough, and water resistant enough to hold the pieces together permanently.
Maybe try it like you were air layering it so there would be more moisture on the exposed parts. I know it would be harder to wrap sphagnum moss around it and keep it together but it might help if from drying out. At the most you would probably have two plants sending out roots rather than drying out.
you can air layer with a clear plastic solo cup so it's not super hard to set up a thing where you can see the join point and the roots well. Air layering may work, but you'd have to keep an eye on the moisture.
I have never seen someone try grafting houseplants, that's very creative!
Thanks! It's actually pretty popular with cacti!
Dude you have to protect your graft from drying out. I am mostly grafing trees but what I know for sure is - when you graft scions that already have been budding you need to protect them from drying out. This means reducing the surface of transpirating plant organs = cut away 80% of the leaf! Or wrap everyting in parafilm.
I failed 100% of my cactus grafting attempts in the beginning, but now I've done about 50 successful ones.. moral of the story is keep trying. One thing I recommend is to start with very healthy and plump material. I realize it's 2 completely different categories but same concept..i.e. grafting.
So, SO happy to see this video. I'd love to see more grafting experiments, perhaps with other plants. I love doing frankenstein shit to my plants and I love seeing other people do it too. Have you considered notching? I'd love to see you try and create a branching plant that isn't naturally supposed to branch, lol.
I was literally trying to research if you could graft aroids and then you post this 🤣 love it
I have both of these....now I must try.
good luck!
I’m definitely interested in seeing more grafting videos in the future!
I remember I googled if I could do this and had no results. So Thankyou for doing this! Keep it up :)
I’d break the razor blade in half so there’s only one sharp edge to watch out for 🙃 (they’re made to split safely - for use in shavettes)
i will give it a try
Cool experiment! Would be cool if it worked. I haven’t tried grafting any aroids, but I did start a bunch of fruit trees from seed a couple years ago and was passively thinking about grafting them all together into one plant-the the “Society” (horror movie) version of a Jabuticaba tree.
Anyways, thanks for tracking and sharing your experiments - interesting as always
try grafting a pothos onto a monstera next, I think the pothos can't transfer nutrients to the monstera enough, like plugging a 50 watt light into a 20 watt source. The pothos just can't give the monstera enough juice. Can't wait for the next video of manmade horrors!
your light example is great! I will try it the otherway around
I've only tried my hand at grafting a tree once but I feel like sterile technique and using grafting tape wouldn't do any harm and it's pretty cheap.
yeah I should pick up the proper supplies
That was a cool experiment! For next time, I would try a baby monstera on a golden pothos since they grow the fastest and can keep up with a baby monstera's needs a lot more than a manjula. It will be interesting to see what type of cuts will work to successfully graft the pothos back together.
I wonder if you take a small variegated monstera cutting and drill a hole into your monstera log, could you graft it into the hole and basically use the big boy as root stock
I guess you could also try that with the thick pothos and a pothos cutting from like an albo variety and see if the root stock helps it get new growth started
I think the toothpick is more of a splint. Sounds a bit like you're mixing up splint and stent. :)
For this type of hollow/vine stems, fuse it at the “knots. I tried different methods, and the mosr consistent for the graft to take wad making a small notch and socket type of joint, then using a thin piece of a toothpicki tru the midde of both stems to give it rigidity. If you see the buds comming out before the graft location, remove them. This is energy and resources that is not going to the graft site.
Yes! This!
The knots are called nodes, everyone knows that’s where roots and new growth emerge when taking cuttings, funny he didn’t try grafting node to node.
Also sealing it with wax before wrapping it might help, grafting wax…
Wondering if this’ll work with monstera on monstera. For example, ThaiConst on just regular Deliciosa, since Thais love to rot away when cut to propagate
Sadly it's close to impossible to graft monocots.
I gotta do more research and like the user said with monocots but dangit I'm still going to try
I’ve not personally done it but I was looking into the idea and basically you take a variety with good roots called “rootstock” and graft some tastier fruit or prettier flowers to it called “scions”. So with that in mind, a cool experiment might be which rootstock makes the pothos scion grow fastest or something like that😌
awesome! grafting really is facinating, i once saw a video where someone grafted a tomato plant onto a potato plant and used it to make ketchup and fries from the same plant lol :DD
You have to put a wet cotton ball on it, before you put the saran wrap. It keeps it moist
i will try it for round two
I just learned in my botany class that no monocot species an be grafted, they have differently organized vascular bundles which cannot connect
It seems to be the case but I'm going to try again and a few different ways
Waiting for "The Plant Centipede" now
There is a method of grafting usually with trees where you cut a slit into the main stem and put another cutting on that stem kind like an off shoot, I'm wondering if you tried to slot a pothos cutting on a monstera in that way would it work. It's the same method people use to make "franken trees".
Try grafting it and placing the graft portion in water after a couple of weeks.
I think you can do meristem cloning by making a chimeric blend of the two.
I love weird grafts and stuff. Thank you for also being one to do crazy projects like this, I don't feel so alone lmao. Frankenstein species are the best
great video
thank you
Thanks for showing us ideas😁👌👌🌹
I love you techplant!!!!!
Thank you!! ❤
Teflon tape works great for what you are doing
I wonder what would happen if you tried to use a water-rooted cutting as the scion. Ex. a leaf with 3 nodes, and you got roots growing in all three, and then cut off (or better yet, at) the bottom node to try and graft. Then, once everything's grafted and wrapped, submerge the water-rooted nodes in water again, so they can continue to uptake water on their own. It'd take some weird positioning, probably horizontal. Would it help the grafted top survive long enough to heal the cut? Or would it cause the graft to be rejected as the water roots are already providing enough..? I'm curious now.
Loved this. Thank you for sharing👍
PLant immune systems aren't like ours at all, the way you graft and the conditions that you get the plant to the stage of grafting is really important.
I've Grafted a Dieffenbachia and a Monstera out of necessity before and it worked fine for long enough to get new nodes to get the monstera back into its own pot. I''m not sure this is suitable for long term grafting...
I think the word you want is splint, not stent. I think a stent is what they use in heart surgeries to keep clogged blood vessels open.
Could you show how that massive monstera is setup(end shot)
I will make a video about it maybe some shorts too
Maybe you can do like an air layering on the grafted part? Instead of just wrapping it, add some damp moss or something so the plant cannot dehydrate before it could even fuse?
This is one of the videos I was hoping to see from you. I would also like to sugest you to test propagation with magnetic exposure. Several places mention it works, I am testing it on pothos. It's far from bulletproof yet but I am really seeing more rooting. 3 times as long after 2 weeks.
Like just having strong magnets nearby? I can try it
Can you share a reference where I can look this up more?
Seems like my answer keeps getting removed. You can find review articles with a quick search.
I use a 30×30×15mm neodymium magnet, south pole pointing up, underneath the plants
@@goncalodias1975 I will look into it!
you can make your razor blade a bit safer by taping one side
Very true I will try it next time
I get the feeling that it would probably work better grafting a pothos onto a monstera (growth + water), if at all.
But i only know about grafting trees (wood + green layer), so I'm loving the experiment.
Very cool video!
I wonder if you need to use the plastic wrap, though? I use masking tape to repair broken stems and have never had an issue with it. It's also more sturdy so you might not need a toothpick to hold it. Just an idea :)
Paper tape (like the kind for skin wounds) works really well also. I use the 3M Micropore paper tape. It sticks to itself really well so wrap it around twice or more and it won't come off if the plant gets wet.
I've seen in grafting videos for Desert Rose plants that Teflon tape (plumbers tape) is used.
This is the kind of wierd Frankenstein shit I subscribed for!
I think it is impossible to graft Monocots. Nice Video.😊
i dont know about this type of plant but with fruit trees doing a wedge graft you have to line up the cambium layer, a very thin layer right under the skin. for best results both pieces need to be same width, and the cut very precise.
Yeah I need to get some trees and try it!
I just ordered some Manjula Pothos Cuttings from Etsy, I am really excited to get them! It is very hard to find them especially in Canada!
An idea, take a small banana plant and remove the psuedostem and graft a monstera to the corm.
I tried this long ago and did not succeed... I checked with a trained horticulture teacher and I was told Monocots do not develop secondary growth in vascular bundles and hence cannot be grafted.( I am not sure I am writing the exact science but
i hope you get the drift )..Thus you will find all the commercial grafts like Avacado, Apples, roses, etc. are done on Dicots....
There's this cool art/horticulture project by Sam Van Aken where he's made a frankentree of around 40 different fruits. It's very beautiful in bloom.
They're all stone fruits so a mix of cherries, plums, apricots ect.
Ive heard about that, how cool!
this is cool !
The type of pothos mught make a difference too. My manjula is a little too slow growing, but a heartleaf or better yet golden pothos have much faster rooting properties, especially in water. Monsteras need way more water than most pothos, but the manjula is a drier variety in my collection so it limely doesnt have enough oomph to pull tons of water
Very interesting!
Splint, not stint. Both exist, but very different things.
Connect the nodes. That’s where the most stem cells used for regeneration are found in aroids
Experimenting with plants is entertaining & fun! What if you slit a plastic straw, slipped that over the graph? You could tape the toothpicks the the straw, then wrap with the plastic wrap. My thinking is the straw could be a 3rd hand.
love the experiment videos! to hold the razor consider a bread scoring knife aka bread lame.
Maybe try spraying where you.cut the graft then wrap it
yeah my next attempt will sorta be like that
Are you from Wisconsin? Cool vid, glad I found your channel!
yup
there is two concept need to be clarify vascular bundles and cambium. vascular bundles is the pipeline water and nutrients flow and cambium is where new plant cell grow.dicots has both and they grow together. Monocots has scatered vascular bundles making it impossible to line up the pipeline. on top of that Monocots do't have cambium. they do't grow new cell after initial growth so the cut won,t heal like dicots. but sometime by pure chance new cell can be grown from other tissue other then cambium. these volunteer cell is the only chance Monocots graft can work if it even could. but therory wise it look pretty improbable.
but not impossible ! i can see this work if you put in several month of effort and experiment. Monocots can have new cell and heal wound but it is prohibitively slow and difficult . figure it out is probable. after that you still have the scatered VB issue.this is impossible to solve and doom the scion to have only limited supply.
what do you think about an aquarium hose or some other way of sealing outside air out, and injecting distilled water into like a sub millimeter gap so theres just a wet interface and fluids can flow between?
@@TechplantChannel some time when i graft cactus and did not align vascular bundle properly,the plant will heal and seal together. but the scion never star to grow just sitting there do nothing for 3~6 month. i believe that is what will happen if your graft is success but screw up vascular bundle alignment. since Monocots can't be align i think that is what will happen. from theory and my personal experiment.
eventually scion will grow.i think that is because other plant cell transform into vascular cell and linkup with the misalign vascular bundle. if i dissect them i can prove or disprove this theory of my. but they are my precious baby cactus and i am not ready to sacrifice them to science. maybe next year. very good side project for content thou. FYI cactus tissue are soft and easy to observe with naked eye if you want to test this on other plant you need microscope to see vascular bundle properly.
Great videos, but little detail: That is not pothos. It is Epipremnum aureum, which is a flowering plant. Flowering is rare, but with all your tinkering around, maybe you will get lucky and get it to flower. Grafting another plant might actually supply the needed hormones under the right conditions.
W video
Interesting....keep trying
I ll try this with ficus lyrata and shivranea
I went to school for two years for a degree in natural sciences learned how to graft but I’m horrible at it have not had a successful graft in years but I also only try like one or two a year if that 😅
Please send me what you have left of this plant, I would love to add it to my pothos collection😊I love this plant!
I'd love to see a multi graft chain. Monstera, Florida Green, PPP, White Knight. Would take a lot of very careful work though to get the vascular bundles lined up though.
They are monocots...it is impossible/near impossible to do
@@markkaracsonyi8822 100% agree. If someone were VERY precise it might work though. There are an Infinite amount of easier plants to graft though. To me the juice wouldn't be worth the squeeze, but I'd still like to see it happen regardless. 🤘
When you graft like that you need to cut the grafted end cause the moisture evaporates quicker then it can suck out of the grafted area. Also it takes a lot longer cause the plant needs to support rest. :) just wanted to say taht
Also wrappin the grownode or „eye“ so it can’t loose that much moisture either
Like the other William said it’s impossible to graft Monocots. In dicots the cambium layer is right on the outside of the stem but in monocots the vascular tissue is in bundles that run through the stem. Unless you can line up all the bundles the graft won’t succeed.
I would have put "Frankenstein" in the title. Because that's what it is
It's cals a splint
You should try quality grafting tape
What would happen of you grafted a node/arialroot into another plant? I feel that it maybe would root into it
I have fooled with grafting two apple trees. It was a thing my grandfather did to get stronger trees that produced larger apples and bigger yield per tree. You did the "slip" on the end of the incoming plant and slide it into the "split" on the base of the receiving plant. It isn't a sure "take" all the time. He used the old fashion painters paper tape to wrap it and then strong wire around that. In some cases, it would take but fail long into the season. You really have to know your horticultural science if you are expecting far more results and expectations.
You mean 'splint'. Softwood grafts are done and easy - however plastic wrap is not the correct material. I think this is what is causing your grafts to come out of alignment
Wrap it and keep it moist
Sweet! Man made horrors beyond my comprehension!
Hi, I need help, please! My monstera albo variegata is frozen 2 months ago( it was a single leave cutting, already rootes in soil) and it does not do anything since that. The leaf was totally frozen to death, but the node is still alive i think, its not rotting. My question: should I wait until something happens or should I take the stem cutting out of soil an agai into water? Until now i have not checked the roots, because it dont want to stress the plant or break something :// but the stem is not loose, so i think the roots will be fine. I wish someone could help me, thanks!!!!
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I think this is pretty creepy and cool and you should do more of it. What if you tried candle wax or something like that?
So did the grafting work or no??
HELLO!
Yo!
splint
Now graft pothos on monstera Deliciosa
in order for plants to accept a graft, don't they need to be under the same species? Example Lemon tree with a grafted Orange branch. I mean if you tried to graft an apple tree onto a lemon tree it would not work because genetically they are completely different, in the same way a monstera wouldn't graft onto a pothos because despite them being airplants, they aren't that closely related, right?
Frankenstein’s monstera
you should use grafting tape
I will get some and do actual research for test 2
Potsera or Monthos?
Damn both of those are hilarious and also so cool sounding
the idea is good but you dont know basics of grafting. You should cut the laves and wrap upper graft part with some aluminium foil to prevent dehydration. Also you should always keep removing new grow below grafing point. graftig method that work best in this case woud be cleft. Try it one more time . I want to see this :)
Will look it up thank you for this information!!
Frankenstein lol
Lol
Nothing wrong with proving the null hypothesis
*Splint. 😉
*splint.