Grafting Techniques for Watermelon
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Grafting Techniques for Watermelon1

Kent Cushman2

Abstract

HS1075, "Grafting Techniques for Watermelon," describes and illustrates four methods for grafting watermelon scions onto squash, pumpkin, or bottle gourd rootstocks and lists the advantages and disadvantages of each method. It explains splice graft, side graft, approach graft, and hole insertion graft techniques. Please see the pdf at the following link: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/HS/HS33000.pdf.

Footnotes

1. This document is HS1075, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date October 3, 2006. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

2. Kent Cushman, Assistant Professor, Department of Horticultural Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, Immokalee, 34142.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Larry Arrington, Dean.


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