Grow light and scions grafting?

[Mikey]

Have anyone try grafting scions of atemoya and cherimoya onto cherimoya rootstock and then putting it under grow lights?  Does this work?

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I havent done it but can't see why it wouldnt work.  The nice thing about grow lamps and growing things indoors is you can control temperatures and light intensity.  Should work out better than hot august sun IMO.

[Alekhan]

I havent done it but can't see why it wouldnt work.  The nice thing about grow lamps and growing things indoors is you can control temperatures and light intensity.  Should work out better than hot august sun IMO.

Yep, anything better than outside >90 degree. I have 0% success (out of 4 grafts, scion/branch-green/green) so far in August.

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Im going to put some mango seedlings under a COB grow lamp and leave some outdoors and see what happens.  Maybe put the grow lamp on for 18hrs a day.  Not sure if mango trees are photo period sensitive?  Anyone know?  Since they are tropical plants that live near the equator they would normally have consistently shorter days throughout the year.  12 hrs on would probably be most natural but 18 hrs will give yhem 50% more light exposure at full intensity.

Mikey how many hours do you have your lamp on per day?

[kh0110]

I'm not sure if those rootstocks without a single leaf on them would benefit from the grow light. Anyway, I think this is overkill. Putting them in the shade with ziploc bags over the grafts to keep the moisture in would be easier and much cheaper and probably better result.

[Mikey]

I'm not sure if those rootstocks without a single leaf on them would benefit from the grow light. Anyway, I think this is overkill. Putting them in the shade with ziploc bags over the grafts to keep the moisture in would be easier and much cheaper and probably better result.

I got the grow light cheap on amazon when they had the amazon day sale.  I use it at night to control the temperature and I turn off the light in the daytime.  The seedlings are under my patio so no direct sunlight is on it during the day except during sunrise.  I graft these last Wednesday night and now some of the bud are poking thru the parafilm.  I hope all of them workout but it looks like the ilama and ilama rosada may not work on the cherimoya root stocks. 

Should I put a ziplock bag on them?