2017 Grafting Thread

[Bart]

Bart, Your first pic, it looks like the scion is upside down?

Yeah it does look upside down in the photo, but there’s a bud on the underside that’s going the right way

[Derby42]

i am declaring victory on these stone fruit grafts, contender peach, my unknown peach, amadiocot, orangered cot.

[jeremymillrood]

Red fuji graft starting to leaf on my Dorsett Golden…

Harrow delight graft on my Flordahome

[hungryfrozencanuck4b]

Hi @VSOP. For some more info on Capilano, check out: http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3839543/capilano-apricot-in-flowers-and2016

[NuttingBumpus]

Quite a few apples are partial tip bearers, and a few are fully so. It can be expected they would have a bloom bud at the tip. Take a picture and remove the flower stems when done blooming!

Some people remove that tip bud when they find a bloom bud at grafting, just to prevent any bloom the first season. That would be before you have bound the scion to the stock.

I don’t, figuring the hormone surge to bring nutrients to the blooms aids callusing and growth. Since most of my grafting is at home, I have the privilege of checking close by. I should look at the other places this year (one 40 miles away) just to make sure all goes well, but will probably wait a month, in which case i can find any fruitlets developing if a tip bloomed.

[Barkslip]

Heck yeah Johnthecook. I have to tell you before you learn the difficult way, and as much as I love cable ties… they will crack and break over winter leaving your tags on the ground and blown away with the wind (not a good for zone 6)

I love uline wire on a spool. It lasts outside in my cold and hot climate 8-years. Any other wire that you may get for 25-30 bucks a spool, the vinyl will disappear in less than a year. uline wire is expensive but I have something such as 375 plantings and I still have wire from my original spool purchased 8-9 years ago, today. I also have used it for years and years for field grafts at friends properties and with plants I sell.

I don’t know any other wire personally as good, but if somebody does, please let me know.

Dax

[Barkslip]

@Derby42 beauuuuutiful grafts.

@Bradybb Thanks for getting that wood for me.

@mamuang

Most all Mirabelle de Nancy did not graft. I got (2) of about 10. I’m happy with (1) though.

I got every single one of these! I must have 10 or 12 of them

My buddy and I grafted so much wood from several of you it’s just unbelievable how much we did. Not a scion left ungrafted…

Dax

[Johnthecook]

Good to know, I’ll change them in the fall. Thanks!

[Derby42]

Thank you , that means a lot coming from someone who has grafted as much as you. I have only grafted for a few years .

[Barkslip]

Welcome @Johnthecook.

I do appreciate that @Derby42

Thanks,

Dax

[mamuang]

Dax,
Your area must be pretty warm. My gratfs just start to push, 2-3 weeks behind you in development.

Sorry about Mirabelle de Nancy…

[Derby42]

Someday when I get real good you will have to teach me how to graft pecans.

[txpanhandle1]

From my experience. the black zip ties last much longer outdoors than the opaque white. I don’t think the white have uv protection.

[northof53]

I have black and they have been on the trees for at least 3 years no problems. I am not sure if they are the regular generic ones, as my husband is an electrician and they use these both outside and in for cable ties so they are pretty “skookum”.
There seems to be as many ways to label a graft as there are to tie one LOL.

[Barkslip]

I’m very happy Tippy with all that stuff you sent. @mamuang Couldn’t be happier. It’s been warm as heck here. The stray cool week of 4 warm ones in a row. Now going back into the high 70’s to low 80-81 coming ahead. Perfect rains, too.

@Derby42 me and my buddy have it figured out how to graft pecans very simply and have a saleable plant. Stuewe 10" long x 2.5 x 2.5 containers. Instead of what I’ve always done which is to sow my seed at Fall and put in my greenhouse which is kept at a few degrees above freezing, I’m going to store seed in the fridge and plant in those pots beginning of spring. The seedlings will never be in a greenhouse. They will come up naturally w/o shade cloth and a teaspoon of 10-10-10 added at commencement and off they go. I saw a guy’s shagbark and shellbark hickories grown this way a few weeks back. I couldn’t believe what he had accomplished. His shagbark and shellbark’s were 10-12" tall and pencil caliper or more in one cycle of growth. That’s the key. I can easily cut thru that wood and whip and tongue pecans and hickory scions onto these seedlings after that 1-yr. cycle the following year. The plants are then saleable the end of June or into July.

Every single plant in those Stuewe’s had a taproot that stopped precisely at the bottom of that pot. It’s like 10" is the magic #.

Whether I or you whip and tongue them or use a tool like that Zenport grafting tool for 31 dollars on banggood.com, we’re golden. A seed source such as Hark or Kanza (northern or far northern large pecans) will make a heck of a seedling just like those hickories did during one growing season.

Best regards,

Dax

[Derby42]

I have some pretty large seedlings now, sometime I will get some photos and start a thread

[Barkslip]

I’d be happy to help. Caliper, bench or field, that’s why there are so many options of grafting techniques to choose from.

Dax
@Derby42

[Matt_in_Maryland]

John Rivers nectarine is a definite take.

I can finally say that Zard apricot is a take too, as well as Reine des Mirabelles. I’m thrilled by that.

I’m pretty sure Hesse plumcot would have made it too, if the damned Methley/Myro host stock didn’t just die out from underneath it. Blast!

My earliest grafts did best. Like you said: “Don’t wait for the perfect conditions to arrive. They may never come.”

It’s a numbers game. Eventually you get some winners.

Today, I looked at a two-year Nancy Mirabelle graft. The thing just grew six feet tall and is over my head now. I remember when it was waist high. Amazing.

[scottfsmith]

I also had a peach stock fade on me this spring - bummer after all the work when that happens!

This cool weather has not been all that bad, its at least gotten into the 60’s plus occasional 70’s and when the grafts are in the sun they have been plenty warm. It looks like a good year here overall; both early and later grafts are doing well. Last year I grafted a lot of peaches too late in the heat and they got fried.

[Matt_in_Maryland]

Last year I grafted a lot of peaches too late in the heat and they got fried.

You and me both.