GRAFTED ZOAS AND GRAFTED PALYS

[phyto4life]

Started a new post because I was grafting as opposed to hybridizing.



So far it's been around 2 motnhs and the grafted nuclear death is still looking the same way.

While the 2 babies have a slightly smaller % of the 50%/50% color

I'm looking forward to there offspring. and there out come in order to see if they end up going back to normal.


Just attempted to graft these zoas:







I used a different grafting precedure on the zoas. If they don't turn out I'll go back to the original grafting way, which is letting them grow into each other and slicing them into each other.

[phyto4life]

here is my 1 blue and 1 orange zoa graft in which the sliced off orange zoa head is placed on top of and on the side of the blue zoa that had it's side sliced off

then I applied crazy glue gel on the orange zoa head in order to keep him in place as he grafts into the blue zoa



so far it's a 70% success because they are melting into each other

tomorrow I will slice them where the soft grafted tissue is melting into each other so that they graft even more.


here's an update on the nuclear death paly's 2 offspring with a 3rd too young to know what color/pattern she took on.





one is like a purple/green die dye shirt while the other is green with 2 piece pizza slice of purple

sorry for the pics it's my old old camera I'm still learning how to use manual focus with my canon rebel.

[phyto4life]

here is the offspring from the 50/50 nuclear green/purple death isolated single polyp frag





The razor in which I used to graft the paly's:





any coral propagator's that want to attempt this.

should look at my first pic in the thread it kind of look's ugly but the thing that is great about this is that every attempted graft is different and once you get that right graft that you like you can honestly call it a real L.E created only by you something that may be laying in the ocean with million's of others for all that anyone knows just not yet discovered.

or the 2 in which you chose to graft might of never crossed path's in nature because they were harvested from 1000's of K's away from one another

with that purposely made L.E you can take your razor and slice it in half carefully to make 2 and so on

so in theory you can fill a plug with that exact morph through slicing in half which later on once sold will give off alternating morph's

with splitting single paly's you just need to slice in half cleanly scoring a few times in the same spot then you let heal and if it doesn't split try again in 2-5 day's and it will eventually split with in 2-3 try's.