Plant Propogation and Nursery Management

Types of Grafting

1. Detached scion grafting

A. Apical grafting

Whip-and –tongue grafting
Splice grafting (whip grafting)
Cleft-grafting (split grafting)
Wedge grafting (saw-kerf grafting)
Saddle grafting
Four flap graft (banana grafting)

B. Side grafting

Side–veneer grafting
Side-tongue grafting

C. Bark grafting

Bark graft (rind grafting)

D. Root grafting

Whole-root and piece root grafting

2. Approach grafting

Spliced approach grafting
Tongued approach grafting
Inlay approach grafting

3. Repair grafting

Inarching
Bridge grafting
Bracing

With increasing labour costs, only a few of the more efficient grafting techniques are utilized, such as side veneer, tongue and whip-tongue grafts. In automated and manual grafting of herbaceous vegetable crops, the splice graft is one of the most important. The description of some of the methods used in fruit crops, ornamental or vegetable crops is as under.