I would say that is a mulberry with the will to live…
It is pushing out shoots all over… even at the base of the stump.
Just checked my apple grafts again…
Love it…
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Thought I would post some graft results. I’ve been very pleased so far. The first three are on BUD 9 rootstock.
Fallawater
Glockenapfel
Niedzwetzkyana
July red graft
Ambrosia last year’s graft
St Lawrence. Beautiful striped apple
Yellow Newtown
Tsu Li last year’s graft
Red delicious tree. Love all the blooms and the apples are so beautiful. The taste, not so much, thus the plethera of grafts
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A neighbor who likes to germinate avocado seeds from the grocery store just learned about my project and dropped off a couple of their most recent seedlings. Hass seedlings aren’t my top choice for rootstocks, but one did survive the winter here outside this year, planted with the graft at ground level, so I won’t turn down free roots. They both got Duke scions grafted on them:
Before:
After:
The second one looks sloppily wrapped, but that was just some extra buddy tape I put over it when I realized the tightly wrapped layer had torn a bit at the top. I didn’t want to mess up the graft alignment by wrapping too tightly after the fact.
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@Luisport
Ariwa and Ladina were bred by Agroscope, the federal Swiss agricultural research program. Ariwa is a cross of Golden delicious with a scab resistant breeding number, while Ladina is a cross between Topaz and Fuji.
I’ve seen Ariwa in another farmers orchard (got all my scion wood from him) and have been very impressed with its healthy foliage and nice fruit. Ladina is all the rage right now, because it has very crisp, juicy flesh and a very exotic taste, quite unusual. In contrast with the Ariwa it will probably be a more wimpy branch, because it has Topaz growth habit with the hanging fruiting wood and thin branches, while Ariwa has a much more robust form.
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Thank you very much my friend! They seems very interesting! Congratulations! 
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If you are doing apple and pear that should not be a problem. 50s is in the optimal temperature range for them. Apples are very tough. I had one that took close to 60 days before it showed green.
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The cultivar “Dula’s Beauty” seems for a second year to be among the most reluctant to push buds and get going.
It’s one of just a couple of my first 50 apple grafts this year that Im not certain has taken or not. (Over 30 days.)
Happy so far. Except bench-grafted pears are lagging. The ones added to callery are doing better.
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How long should I keep mine in dappled shade? Most are pushing buds. Been ~3 weeks. At what point do they need more sun?
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Sorry to hear that.
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Dappled shade all year is OK if you’re keeping them in pots all year.
Or, move to sun anytime, but expect to need the garden hose often.
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Trev
Those mulberry scions are looking pretty promising, you may want to rub off the majority of those bud sprouts below to favor grafts
Dennis
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I have been cachunking a good amount of wood today to get some persimmon action going. I think I’m up to 20 trees finished. I think it was tree number one, a JT-02, that I learned not to also cachunk my left middle finger thumbnail. I can’t say I’ve ever punctured the center of a nail before, but a bit of pressure and some medical tape eventually stopped the bleeding. I got lucky, if that had been the soft part of a digit it probably would have been a visit to urgent care.
Suffice to say, this is a friendly reminder to be very careful and cognizant of your actions with very sharp objects.
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I made my first attempt at grafting a few years ago. Cut the crap out of my finger and retired till this year. Near 50 grafts, no cuts, and quite a few beginning to push.
Didn’t you know that you have to make a blood sacrifice for grafts to heal? Your in now-blood in blood out! You can never leave the grafting cult now.
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I reckon I donated a little blood at some point…but 158 grafts using a box cutter and no cuts this year…
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Nice wrapping job!
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I uncovered this graft yesterday because I wanted to see what it looked like. This is Korean giant onto Bartlett pear
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Looks great.
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It does look great but with those panhandle winds I’d sure put something on it for support!
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