Boy if you can get those flaps to take it sure would be a bonus. Great craftsmanship in your grafting Jesse!
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You got it, the flap heals over the oversized stump end of the stock. The inlay graft takes 100% reliably, the flap maybe around 80% of the time. My site is quite exposed and windy, this graft is very solid by mid to late summer when t storm season kicks in.
Hereās one one year later, scion was 1/4", stock was 1" when I grafted the Purple Heart plum onto p americana stock.
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Very impressive plum grafting.
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Yes, very nice Jesse!
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Jerry,
Just make sure you brace it or else one strong wind then it will snap off because of the heavy growth on top and a weak union. I had quite a few snap off in the past and learned from my rookie years.
Tony
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About two months after grafting I can confirm that my peach/nectarine success was very poor. I have one nectarine and one peach graft that I think will be successful. Several that failed. At the time I grafted the temps were nice but got cold again the following week. Now itās hot as blazes and the truth comes out. I donāt remember exactly how many grafts I did but I think around 10. So thatās only 20% success. Pear grafting was 100%, apple about 90%, cherry 100%, plum about 85%. Apricot I think about 50%. I grafted 2 sticks of my own Nadia . One to plum that looks successful and one to black gold cherry that has failed.
Believe the hype about how easy pear grafting is because I did more pear grafting than anything and I canāt find a single dud. They graft very well.
One other interesting stat is that all 4 of my side grafts are growing well. Even the side graft on the crushed apple tree is still growing. A side graft of satsumas on emerald beautiful is about w feet long. I need to cut it back or support it.
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Having grafting wrong scionwood on wrong trees a few time this year, when I saw the leaves of this scionwood I was a bit nervous. It took a minute to realize that that is what apricot looks like.
I donāt have an apricot tree and was told to graft it on peach trees. I grafted apricot on both nectarine and peach trees. The grafts took and have grown well. I have very good grafting success this year. All but one were cleft grafts.
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I had the same thoughts this morning when looking at some peach grafting I did. I thought someone might have mislabled the scions. It makes sence now that you say this because I did get apricots. I didnāt know this. Iāll have to check my lable. I was thinking it was a peach.
Johnny,
I stop on my track every time I pass by an apricot graft. It looks so out of place on a peach tree. This is the first time I have apricot. I am not used to the look of it yet.
I purchased a small Goldcot tree this spring that was my first experience with Cots. I think it is developing holeshot. I also grafted Robada, orangered, and spring satin this spring. About half of those took. All the takes were on japanese plum stock and all of the fails was on Spicezee. Actually I did get orangered to take on Nadia now that I think about it.
I do like the look of the leaves on Cots. Lots of red that really stands out.
Itās the first for me with apricots too. The leaves look way out of place on the peach tree. My grafts are just getting big enough leaves to stand out.
Peach is a very common rootstock for apricots.
When do you normally put your bench grafts in full day direct sun?
Thanks
I recently chopped down an old āGreen Gageā (mislabeled) from Millers nursery and discovered its also on peach - a peach is growing up from the base. I didnāt think peach was used on plum.
Iāve got an apricot on marianna 26-24 that suckers horribly. Not really liking it.
My Marianna suckered a lot too, but since the top died I used the suckers as new rootstock and one of those worked and is still doing well. Weāll see down the road ā¦
marianna is a good rootstock for areas with high humidity or flooding
Iāve got it under a white apricotā¦and the tree is just so ugly. I really want to hack it down and just start over. The shoots out of the rootstock are longer then the ones the cot has put out at this point (iād cut them back, but iām unsure of what i want to do so iāve just left them).
I saw a product that alleges to stop sprouting shoots - youāre supposed to apply it in the dormant season
Havenāt tried it myself