{"id":99,"date":"2006-09-16T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T18:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=98"},"modified":"2009-05-03T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T18:14:24","slug":"a-plant-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"a plant hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"float\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/89\/236627319_29cbfe8332.jpg\" alt=\"Medlar grafted to a Hawthorn\" width=\"275\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 275px;\"><small>Medlar grafted to a hawthorn<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"float\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/85\/236627564_17a88bc95c.jpg\" alt=\"medlar to hawthorn graft\" width=\"275\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 275px;\"><small>close up of whip and tongue graft<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<p>To the delight of plant geeks everywhere, MAKE Magazine has put out a <a title=\"Make LInk\" href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\">HACK YOUR PLANTS<\/a> issue (Vol 7). I&#8217;ve been a phyto-hacker for years and reading this magazine made me feel all warm and fuzzy.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the results of a cool inter-species plant hack I recently performed by grafting the scion from a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medlar\" target=\"_blank\">medlar<\/a> <em>(Mespilus germanica) <\/em>to a feral <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crataegus\" target=\"_blank\">hawthorn<\/a> tree<em> (Crataegus monogyna)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why? you might ask.<\/p>\n<p>The Medlar has a fruit that tastes (to my mind) rather like sugar-frosted baby shit, (although I&#8217;ve been told by people who like it that I should give it a second try.)  The medlar has historically been used as a kind of metaphor for prostitution or &#8216;premature destitution,&#8217;  a quality which makes it oddly endearing to me. And, I couldn&#8217;t resist trying an <em>Inter-species <\/em>graft, just to see what would happen. I haven&#8217;t been able (yet) to produce the elusive <em>+Crataegomespilus<\/em> <a title=\"wikipedia link\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graft_chimera\" target=\"_blank\">graft chimera<\/a>, which I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/weblog\/archives\/000204.html\" target=\"_blank\">back in  March  2005<\/a>, but at least I now have what looks like a viable graft union, from which the chimera might one day sprout. I will just have to bide my time a little longer to see if this exquisite botanical monster eventually appears.<\/p>\n<div class=\"float\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/81\/236627227_a11692025a.jpg\" alt=\"Medlar\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"width: 375px;\"><small>Medlar, <em>Mespilus germanica,<\/em> Cortes Island 2006<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medlar grafted to a hawthorn close up of whip and tongue graft To the delight of plant geeks everywhere, MAKE Magazine has put out a HACK YOUR PLANTS issue (Vol 7). I&#8217;ve been a phyto-hacker for years and reading this magazine made me feel all warm and fuzzy. Here are the results of a cool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}