Universal Super Rootstock Magic Plant

A week later.

Locke stood before the Magic Field in his botanical garden. Using the Grafting Cultivation Method, he transplanted a seedling bred from a seed obtained from a Great Green Owl Plantain onto a branch of a Plane Tree.

Locke used a medium-grade Magic Item—a rune-covered grafting knife specially used by Formal Breeders for grafting cultivation and cutting Magic Plants—to slice open one of the main trunks of the Plane Tree, which had been pruned until almost all its branches and leaves were gone.

He carefully cut a V-shaped wound beneath the bark.

Then, Locke carefully inserted the Great Green Owl Plantain seedling into the Plane Tree's V-shaped cut and tied it in place with thin thread. This was the [Bark Bud Grafting Method] of the Grafting Cultivation Method.

By now, Locke had thoroughly mastered ten common grafting techniques under the broader category of Grafting Cultivation Method.

These ten common techniques corresponded to grafting methods between different types of Magic Plants.

The Great Green Owl Plantain was a perennial herbaceous Magic Plant—in other words, grass. To graft grass onto a tree, he couldn't use the most common [Cleft Branch Grafting Method].

He had to use the specialized [Bark Bud Grafting Method].

Only then could the grass-like Great Green Owl Plantain be grafted onto this Plane Tree.

If an ordinary Breeder failed to realize this, the graft would have been doomed from the start.

Thus, a Breeder's theoretical knowledge largely determined both the speed and quality of their results.

Locke used a [Lesser Grafting Healing Spell] and sprinkled Advanced Nutrient Solution, Advanced Nutrient Soil, and Advanced Rapid-Growth Gel over the Magic Plant's roots.

The Plane Tree's bark glowed faintly and actually fused with the Great Green Owl Plantain seedling. It soon became smooth, leaving no scars behind.

The Great Green