Grafting

Grafting
Originally uploaded by gaikokujinkyofusho.

Ok, a post or two before I said i don't know much about horticulture but I would think most aggies would at least understand (in principle) grafting, in this case I do but the farmer insisted on explaining the whole grafting process. It would have been fine but i am fairly light skinned and had gotten a bad burn the day before and didn't have any sunscreen so listening to a topic i already knew in the mid-day sun was not in my skin's best interest.

Anyway, the purpose of grafting here was that there was one variety of coffee which was well adapted to the local soil but another variety of coffee that didn't grow as well here but brought a higher price so they grafted the higher price variety onto the grows-better variety stump and then covered the grafted stem with a plastic bag to protect it.