These Amazing Clones Of Apricots (part 1)

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Years passed - and again the conversation about new vegetative clones of Manchurian apricots

Photo # 1 Actually, you don't have to read any further. After all, the creation of vegetative clones with the help of vaccinations, together with the debunking of "Lysenkoism" is recognized by many scientists as pseudoscience. And what should I do now: put the apricot trees under the ax, since their frost does not take up to -40 ° C, and the yields are outrageous.

But let's not chop off the shoulder. I have told enough about vegetative hybrids, "… which do not exist and cannot be …", all this is on my website https://sad-sib.ru. But everyone who was interested read it and probably forgot.

Then I decided to just talk about quite fresh (at the end of 2013) "wrong" and "illegitimate" clones and at the same time … vegetative hybrids that are not similar to their "moms and dads". It is impossible to solve the riddle of vegetative hybrids at this stage. It is impossible to plan for their appearance and future properties. Once again I repeat myself and deduce seditious postulates that: vegetative hybrids appear on the border of the survival of a particular grafted tree (therefore, they are not in warmer regions, they do not know about them and do not want to know). Moreover, Mendel's laws do not apply on this border.

And God bless them with these laws. But how interesting it is to live in a Siberian garden, which is an analogue of paradise, and there are fruits that even Adam and Eve did not eat more delicious.

Whether the new qualities of fruits, the structure of their skeletons and leaves, and, most importantly, frost resistance, will be preserved in the genetic memory of seeds or scion branches - the next generation of gardeners will figure this out (sorry - not science), but I don't have time.

Will vegetative hybrids be explained? I don't know, I'm at a loss myself. It seems that histochemistry is powerless here too.

From just one question: is there a gene for frost resistance? - only validol saves. How many terms have I used, causing the ridicule of specialists! He piled up literate and illiterate terms, they say, genes are involved in vaccinations: "sleeping", "wandering", "returning", "awakened", "borderline", "protective", "recessive", "dominant", "combined" … fertile material for research is the transformation of cherries into cherries and vice versa in … one generation (see video).

V. Zhelezov - a look beyond the horizon

But apricots are haunted. Let's talk about them, loved ones. Well, is it possible that "frost resistance", according to theories, is just a certain, optimal set of "sugars", "starches", "minerals", "salts", "enzymes", etc. for each individual grade and tree.

Any specialist within the framework of official science will use special terms to explain anything in his normally southern garden, where trees, in order to survive (offspring), do not need to strain. But, attention! Let this specialist explain how in one year the fruits on a seedling of a hybrid Manchurian apricot (see photo # 1 - his “dad”, presumably the Amur variety, which is in photo # 2) turns into successively …

Photo # 2

The improbability of what I will tell you next is so great that only cooperation with the head himself saves me from being accused of insincerity. laboratory of fruit growing AIAP Ph. D. T. Duskabilov.

So, we are immersed in incredible events: in the third year the seedlings of the Manchurian bloomed, and in the fourth year they gave pale yellow fruits (see photo No. 3), and in the fifth they gave this beauty (see photo No. 4).

Photo # 3

Photo No. 4

Well, how is it possible!

And below is the dialogue, like Red Riding Hood with the Wolf:

- Where does the powerful growth come from? - From the Manchu.

- Where does the frost resistance come from? - From him.

- Where do the pale yellow fruits come from? - From him.

- Where are the large noble leaves from? - Not from a Manchu, but from … a sort of Academician?

- Where is the great edibility of the fruit? - Not from a Manchu, but maybe from his own biological "dad" (Cupid), and maybe from a vegetative "dad" (Academician).

And then - the uttermost!

- Well, where did you get, seedling, (unprintable expression) - see photo № 4 - such a red-scarlet color of the fruit literally the next year after yellow? - I don't know, damn it! Maybe from the Academician. But he also blushed so much only this year (see photo # 5).

Photo # 5 You, my friends, are probably already twirling your finger at your temple and asking me: what is the side of the Akademik variety? And from such that when the seedling was one year old, an Academician stalk was grafted onto it, which did not live a day with awakened buds - gradually dried up.

And then, although you can continue to twist your fingers at your temple - (well, I have no other answer options) - the Academician's genes managed to penetrate into a foreign organism that did not accept the scion as a foreign body, and this may not be a full-fledged vaccine (since the scion died), but let's call it (this attempt), attention: vegetative selective injection.

That is, a separate case of what I previously called for a simpler - "vegetative hybridization - vice versa or from top to bottom."

And I came up with this explanation in despair - having not received a single response from science to this riddle. And you friends, if you like, look for your explanation.

But the time has come to reveal the already shared secret. All, I emphasize, ALL self-rooted seedlings of hybrid Manchurians, including the one in photo No. 4, at one time - 3-7 years ago - were grafted with the most cultivated and large-fruited varieties of apricots - Faina, Akademik, Korolevsky, Amur, Seraphim, Bai (Levitsky) and the Khasansky peach. Over the past three years, they (grafts) died (a couple) or froze (the rest gave tops below the grafts), and I brought the rootstocks to fruiting.

The result is that frost resistance has decreased in only two rootstocks (frostbites). But the color, taste and size of the fruit turned out to be different and not necessarily similar to the alleged "dads".

Let's go further. This unnamed medium-sized European cultivar was laterally grafted with the Akademik cultivar (see photo No. 6). The classical form of the Academician and the weight of the fruits is about 50 g (in the photo № 5 - already a clone).

Photo No. 6

After him, take a closer look, all the fruits of the round-headed European became indistinguishable from the Akademik variety (see photo № 7).

Photo No. 7

Another tree - now try to recognize these fruits in Academician (see photo # 8). But dear "mom" (more precisely - "dad" - Academician GT Kazmin) - they definitely do not recognize.

Photo No. 8

And the Academician does not recognize these fruits, which is in photo number 9, since the influence of the rootstock is clearly strong - the mentor (the first step to a vegetative clone). And the fruits are not colored properly, and the weight is no more than 50 grams.

Photo No. 9

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Address: 665602, rep. Khakassia, Sayanogorsk, 10 md., 2-A, apt. 7

Tel. 8 (39042) 2-63-76, 8-960-776-86-72

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To be continued →

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