Oh my gosh!! That is so cool. Who would've ever thought that you could do that.

Leona

Eggo: Good luck with your experiment, I have read in India sometimes they bury a whole jackfruit and in a couple of years because of growing so packed they become 1 huge single stem and thus creating a vigorous and fast bearing tree.

Leona, I thought it was such a great idea too. Who knew! Imagine how the tree looks when it gets much older.

Patusho, wow thats interesting. I never heard of that. Put wouldn't a whole jackfruit produce about a 100 seedlings. wOW.

Wow, that's cool! I may have to try that, as my wife is starting to complain about all the pots in the backyard. :) But for some reason it sort of freaks me out to try it. You don't think it would promote disease or constrict growth or anything, do you?

Braiding stems is done often here on ficus standards. I used to make 20-30 of them a day at my parent's nursery. As they get big, the trunks tend to grow together.

Lisa

Hey Lisa, do you how long it seemed to take for the ficus to finally graft onto each other. I seen braiding done on small trees but it was the first time I seen it on a tree that old and a fruit tree nonetheless.