if it grew fruit, would it have blueberry's and or raspberry's or a new fruit in general. or no fruit at all. To grow this bush would I have to graph a piece of one bush on the other?
2007-02-26 15:08:10 · 4 answers · asked by Catherine A 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
They are only related in the fact that they fruit. To be able to graft, you need a root stock from the same order and family for it to be successful, and they both are from a different orders, families and genuses.
blueberry-order-ericales
-family-ericaceae
-genus-vaccinium
raspberry-order-rosalea
-family-rosacea
-genus-rubus
Cross pollination is not possible either. About the only way you could create a dual plant would be DNA manipulation and splicing. Even then it would be a combination fruit not both on one bush. Sorry. Makes for some interesting thought tho. Try grape vines instead and graft a white grape onto the side of a red grape for a split bush. But use an already grafted base plant and graft the new piece on below the first graft.
2007-02-26 17:27:47 · answer #1 · answered by Big red 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might be able to cross-pollinate them to produce something new. If you GRAFTED the branches of one onto another, you would probably get a plant that grew part raspberries, and part blueberries. They do that a lot with citrus plants, to make "fruit salad" trees.
However, with citrus plants like oranges, grapefruit, lemons, limes, tangerines, cumquats, and such the plants are all very closely related. I believe that blueberries and raspberries are not very closely related.
If you were to drop the blueberries, you could probably do some combinations with raspberries, black berries, elderberries, goose berries, and boysenberries. These are all pretty closely related, so far as I know. However, working with them might be uncomfortable, since they all have thorns somewhat like roses, and I don't think they are easy to graft.
2007-02-26 18:44:58 · answer #2 · answered by ye_river_xiv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
grafing is the only way to do that it would not affect the fruit al all ,all you are doing is taking the root stock from one and placing a fruit onto the root stock wont do anything but give it a better root system been grafting 20 years in tennessee
2007-02-27 04:13:56 · answer #3 · answered by mountainchowpurple 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it takes scientist many attempts sometimes years to engineer new plants. ofen its not as simple as grafting.
cross pollenation sounds like the most realistic way to yield hybrid seeds that would indeed be a new plant not raspberry or blue berry
2007-02-26 15:26:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋