SMC_zone6,
That looks like a great deer fence in the background. Nice grafts!
John,
Those should grow like crazy this year! It looks like you took off 3/4 of the tree. In 2-3 years you will be eating apples from there.
Itās going to be all disease resistant ones as I go along. Beautiful tree, if I had noticed it when younger I would have snagged it for my lot.
I grafted my amadiocot today. I put two nice rind grafts on my Manchurian bush apricot. I could have done a cleft graft on a side branch but I decided to go with the rind, this is my first time grafting apricots and I really want an amadiocot to take.
To bad you didnāt have more bud wood to put on going around the trunk to help keep it alive. I would let any suckers grow that shoot out on the trunk to keep itās system working. You can cut them off when your graft gets tall. I did my trees like that and they grew fine for two years then we had two really cold winters and the trunk died on the opposite side of the grafts. The bark popped and pilled off. I may have exposed it to sunburn too by cutting the canopy off. If it takes you should see some good growth this year. It will be fun.
4/25 of my attempted apple grafts failed this year. I didnāt save any scion to attempt to regraft fails so what do I do to retain the rootstock? Let it bud and then cut it off just above the top bud? I would like to graft Wickson or Bastiens Orange Crab next year. On a happier note that means 21/25 were successful! I think thatās some rank beginners luck!
I would say that 21/25ths is very decent indeed, and I can tell you that while luck happens it happens more often to the careful and prepared. Good job!
Yes, let your rootstock grow, and either bud-or-chip graft to the new growth this summer if you can get a bud stick or do a spring graft -whip, whip & tongue, or cleft, or chip- next spring.
My first attempt was not nearly as good. Bill
Do not try it, because the graft does not prosper, must be grafted on plum pattern Adara or MonrepĆ³s (one mirabolĆ”n type plum)
That is a good point Johnny. I ran into a similar situation with my pear tree that I top worked. I grafted peaches onto this sami e apricot last spring but lost the graft to a thunderstorm. I allowed the apricot to sprout branches throughout summer. It also had a fairly large nurse limb left on it. I could have tried a cleft graft on one of the sprouts but I feel that the rind is more foolproof for me, and I really want this to take. I left some sprouts on my pear to keep the bark alive but it was only marginally successful. If I get this graft to take I will get some scion from it this winter and try to graft some sprouts. I can look at the sprouts and collect scion that will be a little better size match also. I hope to get some real nice growth on it this year.
Bark grafts are weak for a while. You might want to brace your new growth so the wind canāt break the graft, or critters too. Have fun watching it grow. it should do well.
I hope it is a success, I have had those darn Manchurian bush apricots for like 15 years and when they donāt get frozen they make a small dry , kind of mealy apricot with a big pit.
Iāve had great success in my two years of grafting with the exception of bark grafting. Only 25% success rate. All other types probably 90% or better.
On a nice side note, I was at my pops yesterday and had a look at the grafts I did last year on his 2 apple trees and a Bradford pear. They are looking great. Suncrisp has set a half dozen fruit, williams pride has set 8 fruit, gold rush has set a couple of fruit and the funny this is the 20th century a grafted to the Bradford has set 9 fruit. My dad thinks Iām a witch doctor. Haha. I thinned the apple grafts down to 2 fruits each and the Asian pear down to 3. Canāt wait to see how these turn out when compared to those horrible red delicious heās been feeding to the deer for years. This year I grafted Ashmeads, Karmijn, Arkansas black, and Granny Smith to his trees. Hoping heāll get some fruit from them next year.
I added goldrush, Roxbury russet, coxās Orange pipen, hudsons golden gem to a seedling tree at my dads this year. He was sure pleased when they all started growing. I could see the doubt in his eyes as I chopped up his little tree and put little dead looking sticks on the stumps.
Here is my pakastan mulberry grafted on a wild mulberry. That bud is so fat it will have to open soon!
wow, nice. I am encouraged.
Well Iām down to 19/25. I took two of the bench grafts to school to give to a coworker, he set them down in the gym and went to a meeting for about 10 minutes. When he got back they had both been decapitated 
Very nice Jason it looks really good.