What is the best rootstock for grafting camellia? When is the best time to graft camellia to achieve a high survival rate?

As people's quality of life improves, more and more people like to grow some flowers and plants at home, and camellia is deeply loved by people. So what is the best rootstock for grafting camellia? When is the best time to graft camellia for high survival rate? How to maintain camellia in daily life so that it grows well? Let's take a look.

What is the best rootstock for grafting camellia?

The most common grafted rootstock for camellia is the oil-tea camellia tree. There are many varieties of oil-tea camellia trees, such as white flower camellia, large fruit camellia, small fruit camellia, red flower camellia, etc., which can be used as the rootstock for camellia grafting. In addition to the oil-tea camellia tree, there are many wild camellia species in various parts of my country, such as the sharp calyx red camellia, Zhejiang red camellia, Nanshan camellia, Yunnan red camellia, Nujiang red camellia, etc., which can be used to graft camellia.

In addition, in recent years, some people have used tree species such as continuous stamen tea, mullein tea, and short-column tea to graft camellia, which also has a certain affinity.

When is the best time to graft flowers?

Around the Waking of Insects or the Winter Solstice, the sap is close to the budding period. Grafting will not cause excessive damage to the incision cell tissue, which helps to improve the wound healing ability. The plum rain season is the best time for grafting.

How to graft camellia

The basic operation of camellia is to cut the rootstock with a knife to the wood layer, and then keep its length and the cut surface as consistent as possible, and pull the skin off. Insert the cut rootstock into the cut rootstock to wrap the scion. Try to use polyethylene plastic film for wrapping, which can effectively promote the healing of the grafting wound. When the scion sprouts and gradually begins to lignify, you can uncover the wrapping. The specific details should be determined according to the timely grafting growth of your own planting. I hope it can be helpful to farmers.