Chip budding is a grafting technique. A chip of wood containing a

bud In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem. Once formed, a bud may remain for some time in a dormant condition, or it may form a shoot immediately. Buds may be spec ...

is cut out of scion with desirable properties (tasty fruit, pretty flowers, etc.). A similarly shaped chip is cut out of the

rootstock A rootstock is part of a plant, often an underground part, from which new above-ground growth can be produced. It could also be described as a stem with a well developed root system, to which a bud from another plant is grafted. It can refer to a ...

, and the scion bud is placed in the cut, in such a way that the

cambium A cambium (plural cambia or cambiums), in plants, is a tissue layer that provides partially undifferentiated cells for plant growth. It is found in the area between xylem and phloem. A cambium can also be defined as a cellular plant tissue from w ...

layers match. The new bud is usually fixed in place using grafting tape. Chip budding can be done in mid- to late summer, unlike most grafting which takes place in the early spring. Depending on sap flow, the bud may not begin growing until the following spring, though you can determine if the grafting succeeded before that by seeing whether the bud swells or shrivels.https://simpson.ca.uky.edu/files/reproducing_fruit_trees_by_graftage_budding_and_grafting.pdf The next spring, all other shots than that from the scion bud are removed, which will then become the source for the new top of the plant. File:Rose chip budding, right after grafting.jpg, Chip budding of a rose File:Rose chip budding, after 5 days.jpg, 5 days later, the bud shoots through the parafilm protection File:Rose chip budding, after 7 days.jpg, 7 days later File:Rose chip budding, after 10 days.jpg, 10 days later

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chip budding part 2
- Demonstration of chip budding by Stephen Hayes Horticultural techniques Plant reproduction Asexual reproduction Agronomy {{botany-stub