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experimental_unit_A-6-37
Experimental Unit #A-6-37
Permaculture Notes, #00552
Oregon State University maintains this mother-block of rootstock clones for the benefit of the people of the state (as per the charter establishing it as a Land Grant institution). As a citizen, you can request a clone if you wish, and they'll send you some samples, suitable for propagation. Among professionals, even twigs can be revived as new plants, so you just get a few sticks. – they only give you what you can do something with if you’re in the know.
The same is true of material found at the USDA clonal repository in Corvallis. Request a particular accession and they'll send you a 3-pak of tissue-cultured seedlings in their own perforated agar bags. These stage-4 seedlings are kept in cool storage and re-cloned as necessary to revive the stock. It takes a gentle touch to successfully transition them from the lab to an outdoor setting.
With some land, moxie and horticultural technique, one could create a very diverse community of fruiting plants around a hypothetical farm for very little money. Such a person would be a valued member of an agrarian community, serving as a local repository of useful germplasm for his or her neighbours.
To sum up: encourage sharing and incentive-based altruism with design.
experimental_unit_A-6-37
Experimental Unit #A-6-37
Permaculture Notes, #00552
Oregon State University maintains this mother-block of rootstock clones for the benefit of the people of the state (as per the charter establishing it as a Land Grant institution). As a citizen, you can request a clone if you wish, and they'll send you some samples, suitable for propagation. Among professionals, even twigs can be revived as new plants, so you just get a few sticks. – they only give you what you can do something with if you’re in the know.
The same is true of material found at the USDA clonal repository in Corvallis. Request a particular accession and they'll send you a 3-pak of tissue-cultured seedlings in their own perforated agar bags. These stage-4 seedlings are kept in cool storage and re-cloned as necessary to revive the stock. It takes a gentle touch to successfully transition them from the lab to an outdoor setting.
With some land, moxie and horticultural technique, one could create a very diverse community of fruiting plants around a hypothetical farm for very little money. Such a person would be a valued member of an agrarian community, serving as a local repository of useful germplasm for his or her neighbours.
To sum up: encourage sharing and incentive-based altruism with design.