Rooting Garcinia cuttings

[SonnyCrockett]

Has anybody had success rooting cuttings of Garcinias? 

I have a bunch of cuttings of Luc's garcinia, but they are much bigger than my seedling rootstock.  How difficult are they to root?

[dwfl]

No. With Garcinia species, seed is always best. Grafts can work if rootstock is compatible

[Tetsu0]

I've grafted them with inverted cleft graft and had success with the luc's garcinia scion stems being slightly larger than the rootstock. It appears I centered the stems although I guess the safer bet is to align one sides cambium. I wonder if anyone has tried a inverted veneer graft because that seems like it would be the solution for have a scion that is too thick. Or maybe try cutting out more inner material in the V groove for an inverted cleft graft and thus making the cutaway profile slimmer.

I mean how young are you seedlings, like just sprouted this year?

[SonnyCrockett]

Yeah...Most of the seedlings I have are Lucs seedlings from this year.  I bought a couple of lemon drop mangosteens for rootstock as well and they are about the right size.  But they cost me a fortune for how small they are.

I did try a couple of z-grafts, since I read that was a good option for odd sized scion/rootstock combinations.  I'm not very hopeful though.

[Tetsu0]

Well, just to give you some hope. I had 100% graft success with mine surprisingly. A couple of the grafts took way longer than the rest to push but they all eventually took. I've seen that others had good rates of success too.