Thanks for linking. Is there a translation anywhere?

its all greek to me.. ???

hmmmm.. wait.. greek??

aw well.. it may as well be.. lol ...

finnish greek???

ken

wait!... there is one about grafting too. Here you see how they leave some branches onto rootstock under grafting point to maintain roots.

No, i dont think there is translation, you just have to listen very carefully and try to understand ;)

Here is a link that might be useful: grafting video

Hy!

Hm, the performance and economy of this selected plants strengthens, but genetic diversity goes down to zero... Could this be the plan for promising future forests?

Such genetically invariable clones have almost zero ability to adapt to changing environmental circumstances or against harmful organisms. If there forests from thousands of genetically identical plants are created, how quickly and to what extent they are erased when a certain fungus occurs, or a certain pest animal? Is the next step then a genetically engineered super tree that is immune to all pathogens, to avoid the loss of square miles of forests and millions of Dollar, Euro, whatever?

That may be a great step in the propagation methodology, but i ask me whether that makes sense?

Grts,
Andreas

I absolutely agree with you, Andreas! I think only sense might be in production of decorative conifers.

In finland practicaly all decidous trees with wanted mutated feature are allready propagated by using this microcultivation technique. Itôs easier with decidous trees because clones can be raised directly from cells taken from growing points, without having to go through long process of seed selection.