{"id":3029,"date":"2019-10-31T00:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T07:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-658\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T12:41:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:41:06","slug":"propagating-and-grafting-ginkgo-biloba","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/propagating-and-grafting-ginkgo-biloba\/","title":{"rendered":"propagating and grafting Ginkgo biloba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Onto what root stock should I graft a <em>Ginkgo biloba<\/em> scion?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <em>The Complete Book of Plant Propagation<\/em> (Taunton Press, 1997, Jim Arbury et al.), Ginkgo biloba can be propagated without grafting, by taking semi-ripe cuttings in midsummer and dusting them with rooting hormone and potting them up in a mixture of half peat, half sand\/vermiculite. Cuttings should root by spring if kept moist, and need to be planted out once they have roots.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to graft it, you need a Ginkgo biloba rootstock, which you could grow from seed if you have access to a female ginkgo tree (they are hard to find), and (according to the <em>American Horticultural Society Plant Propagation<\/em> manual) you can use a whip-and-tongue or spliced side veneer graft done in late winter. The AHS manual also recommends taking softwood cuttings in late spring or early summer for ginkgo.<\/p>\n<p>There is also helpful information from <a href=\"https:\/\/kwanten.home.xs4all.nl\/propagation.htm\">The Ginkgo Pages<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfaf.org\/user\/plant.aspx?LatinName=Ginkgo+biloba\">Plants for a Future Database<\/a>, which says that softwood cuttings are taken in spring, semi-ripe cuttings are taken in July and August, and hardwood cuttings are taken in December, and all are kept in a frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onto what root stock should I graft a Ginkgo biloba scion? According to The Complete Book of Plant Propagation (Taunton Press, 1997, Jim Arbury et al.), Ginkgo biloba can be propagated without grafting, by taking semi-ripe cuttings in midsummer and dusting them with rooting hormone and potting them up in a mixture of half peat, half sand\/vermiculite. Cuttings should root by spring if kept moist, and need to be planted out once they have roots. If you wish to graft&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/propagating-and-grafting-ginkgo-biloba\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">propagating and grafting Ginkgo biloba<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[262,96,400],"class_list":["post-3029","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-ginkgo-biloba","keyword-propagation","keyword-woody-plant-propagation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/3029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}