I've been reading up on grafting Brugmansia and want to experiment with some cuttings after my Brugmansia gets established. I have some ideas going and I'm learning about each brug I have to determine which would be good to combine.
I just need to know - When grafting do you need to use the same species or will the same genius work? I have some links bookmarked somewhere but can't seem to locate them.
At first I thought same species but then I remembered that there is a tree at my son's school that is made up of two different species grafted together. It's done quite nicely and I think it took us 2 years before we noticed it.
Same species for grafting?
No, different species work together. A common graft might be a sanguinea with floppy stems to an aurea rootstock that brings big and hearty trunks.
Thank you for the reply. I know you were using it as an example but I was looking for sanguinea seeds a little while ago. Is aurea another cool Brug?
Here is a link for your to peruse all of the different Brugmansia species:
http://tiny.cc/2ad23
I would also highly recommend the book "Brugmansia and Datura: Angel's Trumpets and Thorn Apples", by Ulrike & Hans-Georg Preissel, you'll enjoy it. :)
- Tom
That might be the book my mom has. She grows brugs and mentioned a book that sounds like the Brugmansia bible.