Had a fun visit with Joe, his lovely wife and his puppy snowflake today!
In spite of his busy weekend - having guests over, airport pickups, other errands he accommodated me for 2 hours with a smile!
I had received some Shiranui budwood from CCPP but was not comfortable grafting it. He was kind enough to give me a tour of his amazing orchard and graft it for me @JoeReal - your so accomplished yet so humble!!!
Now all I have to do is try not to kill the tree.
Joe’s puppy snowflake stole the show. She decided she needed to make sure Joe was doing a good job with the grafting. So she jumped up onto one of the patio chairs and watched him graft
Here are a few more pics of Joe’s orchard - you name it he has it - hundreds of varieties of stone fruits, pomegranates, figs, citrus, berries, fruits, veggies, purple potatoes, herbs, cold hardy tropical trees producing fruit in California, papaya, perennial herbs, grafted tomatoes. there is a surprise at every turn!
Great documentation @Girly! I didn’t know you were going to record it, I only thought you were taking pictures. Next time, I’ll do better and position myself to give you a better view.
In the 150-n-1 tree, I used saran wrap around the main trunk, held by painter’s blue tape. I then applied Tanglefoot on the saran wrap. This has prevented ants from shepherding aphids and scales on my tree and it is super effective. I don’t need to spray even organic pesticides on my tree.
Here’s hoping, It’s going to be frying time here in our area where 5 days of consecutive above the century mark is in the forecast. Anything newly grafted here will die. So I told @Girly to take the grafted plants back with her for a better chance.
It’s worth a shot. The next 10 days, the air temperatures would be above 100F or hover just 1F below it. But in the next 10 days, @Girly’s extra Shiranui Budwoods from CCPP would lose its viability. I never had successful grafts on citruses when air temperatures are like this but I have no choice but to try it once more. To have an edge, I covered the new grafts with aluminum foil while allowing indirect lights in. The earlier budwood grafts have already taken but am not forcing them out yet.
@JoeReal - your so accomplished yet so humble!!!
