In late summer probably August or September I was trimming one of my Mirabelle plums and decided to experiment with some grafting. I removed the leaves from the actively growing Mirabelle wood and grafted the scions to some suckers of a wild plum tree that I had cut down in spring. A couple were cleft grafts and a couple were saddle grafts with a grafting tool.
Over the fall and winter the scions did not grow but they also did not appear to be dead. It seems that some of the grafts had healed beneath the electrical tape but the buds had remained dormant.
With spring upon us, they are pushing growth now and they are surviving in spite of being hit by the slug and snail plague that I have this year.
