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 6. At 21 days after budding, open and check the
budeye to determine if the union is successful. The
indication of success is when the bud eye is green or
brownish.

7. If budding is successful, cut accross into the half of

the stock 15 cm above the bud eye and split into four.
8. Cut the rootstock at the point of bending or bowing
when all the flushes have hardened.

Writer
MA. NORMA G. MADDALORA
Information Officer II, ATI-RTC 02

Technical Editor/Subject Matter Specialist

ENGR. WILLIAM V. CONTILLO
HVCC Coordinator
DA-CVIARC, Ilagan, Isabela

Graphic Artist
DANICA E. MELEGRITO
References:
Editor
ANTONIETA J. ARCEO 1. Cocoa Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.
Head, ISD, ATI Sustainable Cacao Production Technology.
Advisers
RENATO MAGUIGAD 2. Bureau of Agricultural Research, Diliman, Quezon
Center Director, ATI-RTC 02 City. 2011. Cacao.
ASTERIO P. SALIOT, PhD, MNSA, CESO III
Director, ATI 5
Procedures in Patch Budding
1. Prepare patch window
two to three centimeters
long without opening the
same as it may dry up or be
contaminated with fungal
diseases.
2. Prepare the bud eye of
about the same size as the
patch window.
3. Open the patch window as
quickly as possible and insert
immediately the bud eye.
4. Cut half of the patch so as
the eye of the scion is exposed
before tying with plastics to
cover cell.
5. Wrap the bud eye with
budding tape thoroughly and
gently.
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General Considerations
A
sexual propagation gives more advantage
in terms of reproduction of true-to-type trees,
more uniform growth, early to bear flowers,
and the clone perpetuates most if not all important
characters of the original seedling mother tree like
pod value, bean size, fruit wall thickness and others.
Major considerations in asexual propagation is
the use of the selected varieties that manifest the
characters mentioned above.
General Considerations
1 The budwoods to be used should be collected
from trees with the best yield capacities and
resistant to pests and diseases.Preferably those
varieties approved by the National Seed Industry
Council (NSIC).
2
Germinated seedling top is used, as the rootstock
should have at least two pairs of mature leaves
before grafting operation.
3 Budsticks (fan branch) selected from
recommended clones with matured leaves and
whose terminals are about to flush or emerge should
be gathered in the morning before 8:00am and
grafted immediately.
4
Do not collect bud wood from trees that are
recovering from heavy cropping.
5 Clean knives and other tools with alcohol before
and after grafting and budding to minimize
disease infection.
6 Avoid grafting in very hot and very dry periods
and wet periods.
Types of Asexual Propagation

Patch Budding - This is propagation of true-to-type

4 Cut the base of the scion
in a wedge shape cut and
insert into the cut portion of the
trees using buds from any of the NSIC approved rootstock.
clones.

5 Press the grafted portion

to ensure overlapping of
cambium layer of both rootstock
and scion.

Conventional cleft grafting - This propagation

technique is similar to the procedure in grafting
6 Tie the overlapped portion
with plastic strips to hold the
grafted in place and ensure
mangoes. Scion of selected variety is attached to
union.
rootstock with an inverted V shape cut and fastened
to each other using thin palstic strips.

Procedures in Cleft Grafting

7 The newly grafted plants will
be kept in plastic tunnel or

1 Cut the stem of the

rootstock in between the
nodes.
tubes (0% light penetration) or
propagation tunnel with 100%
shading for 15 days.

8 Starting from the 16th day

after grafting, the tunnels of

2 Slice the stem of the

root stock in half, 2.5
to 3.0 cm long downward
the propagation box/bin shall
be opened gradually for 10 days
before the grafted seedlings will
using a sharp thin knife. be exposed to 50% shade in the
established nursery.

9 The recommended shade

regimen presented earlier
3 Cut the budstick into
parts (1/2 of its size) with
one bud-eye each stick.
should be followed.

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