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"Estradiol Saved my Life"

Grafting is really common. Most edible fruit trees, cultivated roses, some tomato plants etc are grafted onto a different rootstock as standard- you can control size that way, or make a useful but weak plant much stronger. As long as your two plants are related closely enough and you have cambium to cambium connection (cambium is the thin layer of green under the bark), you can do all sorts of weird shit - like a single tree that gives you plums, cherries, apricots, peaches and almonds.

Grafting compatibility is *not* associated with close relations between plants. There have been multiple theories as to how graft compatibility works, but so far no luck. Also some plants can be grafted one way but not the other around. Fascinating stuff. My own current theory is that it has something to do with nutrient availability and distribution, but that is untested. In my experience stem size (in grafting full shoots on rootstocks) is not really a determining factor, as long as there is overlap between the xylems and floems.

for anyone interested, i recommend reading these papers:

wulf et al 2020 on grafting compatibility

To kind of half-arsedly answer your question and then point you towards a much better resource, methods of grafting tend to come down to either the amount of material you have available for the top part (scion), the size, age and condition of the rootstock (stock), or the type of plant you’re working with.

If you’ve only got limited plant material for your scion then bud grafting (chip budding) is the way to go.

If your scion and stock are similar sizes then splice or whip and tongue method (like what @haveyoueverconsideredpiracy I think is describing and mostly what I’ve done) is your go-to.

If you’ve got conifer material, for example, you’d use a side veneer.

A Crown of Candy - "Blood & Bread"

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.