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Forum: General Talk
07-12-2018, 04:44 PM
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Vegetatively, as in cutting off a chunk and sticking it in moist soil so the chunk grows into a new plant. Some plants can be propagated by taking cuttings of roots, some you can have success by chopping off an above ground growing tip and convincing it to grow roots and eventually become a stand alone plant of its own. Next willow you see, cut off a handful of ~10" tips from the ends of the branches. Stick the cut off end in a glass of ~5" of water and watch the roots grow (it will take a few weeks, so have a good book on standby:)).
Mass propagation can be done via tissue cultures where, in labs, they can grow new plants efficiently from very small parts of the mother plant. It can be a problem when your entire crop is genetically identical though, the wrong disease could potentially wipe out all your bananas. We're trading genetic diversity for a fruit that's a sure thing.
I don't know much about apples, but I don't think any apple varieties come true to their parents via seed. In other words, if you want a tree to produce Crispins, you'll have to propagate it from another Crispin vegetatively. You can make more apple trees via seeds, but they might end up even more horrid tasting than the apple you started with (or possibly better).
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Forum: General Talk
07-12-2018, 10:00 AM
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Have you never seen a watermelon helmet? That's the most fun you can have with a watermelon. Plus you'll blend in with Saskatchewan Roughriders fans, and they know how to throw a good shindig.
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Forum: General Talk
07-12-2018, 09:39 AM
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It's kinda like a mule, the sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
I believe they are hybrids between parents with different numbers of chromosomes, which result in a viable but sterile plant. You need to have fertile watermelon plants around to produce pollen to get pollinate the blooms of the seedless variety so they produce fruit, inside which it attempts to produce seed but isn't quite up to the task.
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