In a trial carried out at Itambé Experimental Station -- IPA, Pernambuco State, Brazil, ten Surinam cherry genotypes were cleft grafted on nine months old rootstocks in order to evaluate their grafting ability: IPA-1.1; IPA-1.3; IPA-2.2; IPA-3.1; IPA-3.2; IPA-4.3; IPA-7.3; IPA-11.3; IPA- 14.3 and IPA-15.1. Genotypes behaved differently in its grafting ability, in which the majority of them has shown good relationship between rootstock x grafts. Grafting percentages ranged from 81.5% to 53.5% for the highest uptaking ( IPA-7.3, IPA-2.2, IPA-11.3, IPA-4.3, IPA-3.1, IPA14.3, IPA-15.1 and IPA-3.2, respectively) and 20.0% to 38.5% for the lowest ones (IPA-1.1 and IPA-1.3, respectively).
Vegetative propagation; Myrtaceae; graft; pitanga
