Since humanity began to grow its own plants, it has always been selecting those that give better quality and greater quantity of fruits or those that had a greater resistance to pests and / or diseases. Currently, thanks to the particular »boom» of ornamental plants, much importance is also attached to the selection of the most beautiful specimens.
For that, specimens are hybridizing to obtain even more striking species. But how do they do it?
Before getting into the subject, let's see what the word "hybrid" means. Well, this word you have surely heard or read in various places. It is a being that comes from the cross between two species belonging to the same or different genus (which is identified by the first word of the scientific name of the plant). For example, we could cross the Almond (almond tree) with the Prunus cerasifera (cherry) to obtain a Prunus with characteristics of both almond and cherry. For a particular level, these crosses are the easiest to do, but if we had the right material we could cross two different plants, of course, belonging to the same family.
This time I am going to advise you on the first ones, that is, on how to make your own hybrids the easy way and without complications.
For this you need to know the scientific name of the two plants what do you want to cross. If the gender is the same, all you have to do is wait for both to bloom. Once the flowers are wide open, with a small brush or with a swab from the ears, pass it through one flower, and immediately afterwards through the other. To increase the chances of success, you can put the two plants in an unventilated room, and carry out this action.
If it is palm trees or trees of a considerable size, what is usually done is, after having pollinated the flowers, cover the flower cluster with a bag transparent until we see that the fruits are ripening.
That easy! 😉
Hello Monica, I am in a personal project that requires hybridizing some species and I would like to know if I can consult you via email the details that I am going to follow so that you can help me to achieve it.
I send you an email 🙂.
Hello Monica, would you send me your email? I would like to talk to you about my project is banana with kiwi and if it works but the reason is that like banana and kiwi are united if through ingestion but what chemical reaction happens inside if the plant eats the genes or only I would like to know the explanation because the bananan is eaten with kiwi and inside there is kiwi with banana
Hello William.
If you mean the banana, that is, the plant of the genus Musa that also produces bananas, it cannot be hybridized with a kiwi plant (actinidia chinensis), since they belong to very different botanical families as they have different genetics.
It's funny that the graft has gone well for you.
A greeting.
Hello, your blog is very interesting. I have a question is it possible to make a hybrid between potato and rice?
Hello Fabian.
No, it is not possible, since genetically they are very different. If they were from the same botanical family, yes, but they are not. For example, if the rice were a nightshade (which is the genus of potato), or the potato were a poacea (a genus of rice), they could be hybridized.
A greeting.
Hello, I have hybridized mammillaria mammillaris with mammillaria prolifera and vice versa, what would you call these hybrids? As you begin to name them, briefly explain that part to me. Thank you
Hello Manuel.
For the moment, they would simply be called like this:
Mammillaria prolifera x Mammillaria mammillaris
And vice versa.
A greeting.
Hello Monica. I would like to create new species of pitaya. Making enxerto of the cladodes of two different species can a new plant be obtained or if it is done in a different way?
Hi carmen.
Yes, you can get a new new species by grafting two different pitahayas in the way explained in the article.
A greeting.