2022 - 2023 Grafting Thread

[swincher]

@BlueBerry

So the years got ‘merged’

Someone edited the title of this thread (which was originally just 2022) to add 2023, but there is also a separate 2023 thread:

2023 Grafting Thread

I haven’t actually done a graft in 2023 yet , but I’m getting ready to and hoping to learn a bit more from my last years experience. This is an apple bark graft I did last spring. I was wrapping my scions in parafilm, then the union with a stretchy garden tape, and then black electrical tape. For bark grafts like this one, I wrapped the top of the stump with parafilm. What I found happened with bark grafts like this was the parafilm cracked sometime in our hot, dry summer and then I…