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istoric tree: Students graft the Klootchy Giant to revive it
said Horticulture Department
Chair Elizabeth Howley.
While on a trip to the coast,
,'he tree will now die,”
LPaul Reis of the Oregon Howley took cuttings of the grand
wnent of Forestry in the tree to be used as grafts in Bruce
Nelson’s Horticulture 133 practi-
zine^Vew West.
,:is’ thoughts on the historic cum course. The class was about
1 demise may have been said to learn about the very subject of
aturely, however, due to the tree grafting on Jan. 23.
“Many of our students in this
mention of Clackamas’ own
class carried out grafting to see if
Culture department.
Jt was still attached to the tree,” we can get some viable trees from
the historic Sitka Spruce,”
Nelson said.
Grafting is a process of
plant propagation in which
a healthy, live and rooted
yearling plant of a certain
species has a section cut
away, and then a plant
of another species has a
similar cutting done in the
same angle as the first. The
two plants are ultimately
joined together.
This is done with the
hope that the two plants
will bond in the cut area
and form a new connec
tion that will stand without
the aid of bonding material
such as twine and grafting
tape.
“I always stopped [to
see the Sitka Spruce] when
I was in town,” said stu
dent Lisa Gunion-Rinker.
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Gunion-Rinker
and
se-up of the grafts shows the
other horticulture students
different trees joined together.
used the grafting technique
iued from HISTORIC TREE, Page 1
known
as
“veneer meth
od” to con
nect the Sitka
Spruce to a
Norwegian
Spruce.
To
cover the cut
between the
two
trees,
they
used
sawdust and
other media to
help close the
exposed area.
“We
did
20 or 30 of
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that particu
lar
plant,” ABOVE: Horticulture 133 prepares to go outside and collect cuttings for class.
G u n i o n - BELOW: Instructor Bruce Nelson displays the Sitka grafts done by his students.
Rinker said.
The next step in the Sitka’s
rebirth is now a waiting game.
Spending time in the cam
pus greenhouse, students will
watch the plants’ water level,
humidity and other factors that
are crucial to the plants’ chanc
es of survival.
“We probably won’t know
if the graft takes for a month,
month and a half,” student Bev
Ashenden said.
When spring rolls around,
the grafts that took will be
planted just like any other tree.
The portion of the Sitka Spruce
will be 100 percent DNA-
related to its fallen brother in
Seaside.
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