|
|
|
Manila Bulletin,
Agriculture, Sat., Feb., 12, 2000 |
|
DOUBLE
ROOTSTOCK |
|
|
|
 |
| DOUBLE ROOTSTOCK.
About 4.5 years ago, Dr. Rodolfo C. Undan and
Bernardo Dizon planted two grafted mango trees
in a not-so-favorable area at the Central Luzon
State University. One had single rootstock while
the other had two. Today, the one with double
rootstock (right being pointed to by Dr. Undan)
is virtually double in sized compared to the one
with a single rootstock being pointed by Dizon
at left. In another planting in a private farm
in Bulacan, Dizon said that a four-year-old
mango tree with double rootstock has caught up
with an 8-year-old grafted tree with single
rootstock. Dizon has been employing the double
rootstock technique to hasten the growth of his
mother trees so he could produce more budsticks
within a shorter time. That is the same
technique he had used in his mother plants of
longkong, a special variety of lanzones from
Thailand |
|
|
|
|
Agriculture Magazine, March 2000
|
|
MANGO WITH DOUBLE ROOTSTOCK
GROWS FASTER |
|
|
|
About four-and-a-half years ago,
Dr. Rodolfo C. Undan and Bernardo Dizon planted two grafted
mango trees in a not-so-favorable area at the Central Luzon
State University. One had single rootstock while the other
had two.
Today, the one with double
rootstock (right being pointed to by Dr. Undan) is virtually
double in sized compared to the one with a single rootstock
being pointed by Dizon at left.
In another planting in a
private farm in Bulacan, Dizon said that a four-year-old
mango tree with double rootstock has caught up with an
8-year-old grafted tree with single rootstock.
Dizon has been employing the
double rootstock technique to hasten the growth of his
mother trees so he could produce more budsticks within a
shorter time. That is the same technique he had used in his
mother plants of longkong, a special variety of lanzones
from Thailand
|
|
|
