Hi,

Grafting *is* cloning. Taking a scion from a parent tree and grafting it onto rootstock preserves the genetic makeup of the parent tree.

If by grafting you mean propagating maples from tissue culture I'm not sure if it has been done. There was a discussion, here or elsewhere, about possibly propagating maples from tissue culture, but I didn't really follow it. In any case propagating anything from tissue culture requires an elaborate and expensive laboratory set up.

Another way to clone maples is by taking cuttings and rooting them. This can be done but it is not that easy....as I'm finding out. :-(

Layne

I might have been using the wrong term, but I ment was taking cuttings and rooting them

Tom

Hi Tom, Monrovia Nursery out in California has a JM they report was from cuttings, I was given a copy of it when I attended a maple seminar in Massachusetts back about 7-8 years ago.

I don't know it they named it but it was upright, red leaf and grown from cuttings.

Ron