Request: Cherry blossoms in Kugane!

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Probably because like snow or falling leaves it's a seasonal thing. It's weird and , for me, a little jarring to have something like that happen randomly.

I am sad the ability to do it on your own house is locked behind an actual purchase but even in japan, cherry blossoms are a once a year thing right?

I'm not against doing cool things, but it seems like an oddly world flow breaking addition to a public area.

There are in-lore reasons for the ever-blooming cherry blossom trees. Have you not read it?

An authentic cherry tree from the Far East modified through generations of grafting and crossbreeding to bloom perpetually.

http://xivdb.com/item/17044/authenti...rn+cherry+tree

Grafting IS a real thing, too. I learned that in class. I grafted two different apple trees together. You have to take two related plants, like two apples (Malus spp.) and do either a V-shaped cut (easiest to do) to the trunk of the under-stock and then make a wedge piece of the scion (upper part of your grafted tree). You wedge it in there so it connects like a puzzle piece, then you bind it together with plastic wrapping and tape it. Over the course of a few months, that fresh wood that was bound together actually seals itself to form one new plant. You can even make grafts with branches; my Lowes Home Improvement store, in different parts of the US, sells actual apple trees that have THREE different types of apples growing on one tree! You can also do that with citrus trees such as lemons, limes, grapefruits, etc. Only 2 same species of trees can cross-pollinate, such as apples and only apples, cherries and only cherries, etc. Another kicker is that edible apple trees can be pollinated by ornamental (flowering crabapple) trees, and you'll still get edible apples from that first tree, yet the seeds inside that edible apple will be genetic hybrids. AKA, new types of trees to plant!

Now with cross-breeding a cherry tree, as in the description, it's basically cross-pollination. You have cherry blossom tree "A" (say for instance a Yoshino) and then tree "B" (Okame cherry). You cross-breed it with each other by just having the trees planted next to each other. The fruits that the trees produce, their flesh will be the same flesh as a Yoshino or Okame (I've yet to actually see Okame cherry fruits, but this is just an example), but the seed itself is a genetic hybrid. You take that seed out of the cherry it produced, plant it, and when the tree matures enough to produce flowers, you may get a new color and species of a cherry blossom.

Now going into the TRUE genetic hybrid of any regular trees are Japanese maples. There are over 2,600 DIFFERENT genetic hybrids of those trees. That's all of a result of cross-pollination, grafting, and such. For every 1,000 seedlings a single tree produces, you'll get 1 new genetic hybrid. To perpetuate that new hybrid, you make branch cuttings to grow a new tree out of that branch. I'm actually doing branch cuttings right now at my house during this winter. And yes, I'm not kidding you, you can grow a tree out of a branch. I've made 2 Okame cherry trees out of branches.

/end educational rant, lol