Thanks Dax.Don’t pay attention to me,Wade.I need to read better.
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Thanks for the help so far. The buds were cut cleanly and flat so I assumed it was with a knife. I unwrapped one to show you. Picture is fuzzy but you get the idea.
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Thanks for the tip. I love diving deeper into the botany side sometimes. Will check out adventitious buds 
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They sent it from their wrong pile of sticks. I’ll bet it was an accidental (mistake)…
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I will at least ask them why they did such a thing. I didn’t realize what they did until I was done grafting. I just assumed they waxed the buds so they would survive and then knocked the wax off and saw they were cut.
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Is there a bud on the other side of what you unwrapped? May I see what the other side looks, please?
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Ok, apparently made a rash judgment about these scions after seeing one with most of the buds sliced clean off. I opened up a few others and saw some really dry buds that weren’t cut. I’m guessing the ones that were cut were branches maybe. Sorry to divert your mental resources on my over reaction. I still wish they wouldn’t have sliced them down so far.
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Only good thing about my mistake was I uncovered another mistake. I grafted one scion upside down! Yikes. Headed to fix that now 
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Good work!
Have fun… 
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So do you think those are viable buds in that 2nd picture?
This is great stuff! Never heard of that type of grafting method. Glad someone messed around enough to figure this out. Great pictures too. I have such a hard time getting my phone camera to focus on my skinny branches. What’s your secret?
I tell ya I have a new operating system & no matter how many times I “circle” little dots on your photos near and on the bud scar of the last two photos you pictured, those dots which are the size of the tip of a generic writing pen and protrude forward 1/2 a mm are buds… those are the “extra buds” that may or may not wake, or, are not alive…
sometimes those buds wake up and then you get a successful graft. A lot of the time they’re dried up though. You’re missing all the main buds… what remains are not adventitious but are some sort of nature’s form of extra buds on a bud scar/bud shield area.
I’m not a botanist… I only graft & only know things from a non-technical perspective… most of the time, anyways.
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i tried all kinds of mixed grafting this spring to use up extra scion wood, got Kristen and Hayward z4 hardy sweets growing on Monty. black ice plum growing on Adirondack gold apricot and black ice plum growing on monty. all took and growing well so far. tried shipova on ivans beauty hybrid mtn.ash but both of those died.
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Question for the seasoned grafters: What’s going on with the light colored tissue in this graft? Is that still vulnerable to drying out and sunburn? Wondering if it needs exposure to air and light or if I should still keep it protected.
Im re-wrapping some grafts as they appear to be growing so vigorously they are girdling a bit. Especially this Zard graft - done in late April and nearly 3 feet of growth on it. Hopefully re-wrapping is a good call. They still seem too vulnerable to leave completely unwrapped.
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You still have the voice of experience, which I have in very limited supply The graft I redid, I noticed that both cambiums already had a thin brown layer. Didn’t take long to reject I guess. Hopefully I learned my lesson. Will update on the success/failure of these grafts and a few other apple grafts I’ve done in the future. Thanks again for your direction.
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The article describing this method you can find here: https://www.lwg.bayern.de/mam/cms06/weinbau/dateien/w1_standortveredlung-07.pdf
This is in German language, so I don’t know if you can read / understand it. Perhaps google translate can help (however, it’s pdf-format, maybe the text is not pastable).
Btw, the photo’s were taken by hand with a system camera, not a smartphone (focus manually adjustable).
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I copied a part of the pdf and pasted it in “google translate”. It works fine and as far as I can judge, the translation is good.
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Nope. For 1/4" or 3/8ths I leave 1/4". For 1/2" (what that looks like, I leave 1/2". It’ll be fine.
Get you a stake and be careful initially.
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Yep, put more parafilm over that callus-tissue until it toughens up.
3 ft. of growth w/o a stake is playing with fire. That should’ve already snapped off. Very nice carpentry…
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