Awesome
A few loquat grafts starting to push. Got really hot and windy the past week and dried a few scions out so I pulled em in for a bit and they seemed to appreciate it.
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Some of my pawpaw and persimmons got a bit dry this past week… I’m hoping those few pull through.
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A few very late (for 8b SC) persimmon grafts that seem to be hanging on thru the windy heat. They pushed hard on two days above 92 °F which kinda surprised me.
Persimmons didn’t mind the heat near as much as the loquats. Still a bit early to say, but 100 percent of the persimmons I grafted late and had temps over 90 have at least pushed buds and shown callous.
Could be I just lined up better than normal. I think all were tiny whip n tounge .
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You may know, but pinch on the weaker shoot(s) and allow the most-vigorous to continue making your tree.
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Thanks for the reminder.
I’ve had some really bad luck with potting soil this year and lost a ton of grafts early. The more you talk about grafting onto in ground roots, the more Im starting to listen🤣
I had to move this Spring and start fresh in a new climate, and it’s been a roller coaster of grafting success and failures. Temps way warmer than I’m used to. Hopefully after it’s all said and done I should have around 100 grafted trees for the new property (when I get it soon) . Lots of gifts if I don’t. Lol
Happy grafting!!
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Thanks, ok will get some more parafilm on there. I guess I better get some stakes. I’m sort of shocked it hasn’t broken too. Birds have been landing on it, it’s blowing in the wind. I did most of these as side grafts, which I don’t think I would do again. I was persuaded it was best for apricot grafting, but my other graft types took just fine and better angles.
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You can always trade those trees for smaller plants (blueberries? goji? goumi?) if you have a smaller space you can use. Or work towards financing that future property with extras?
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Thanks barkslip, curiosity got the best of me and I pulled the rubber band off and parafilm. Do you think I should wrap it back up with parafilm? Thank you.
It’s healed. But… (majorly) without a stake, then you’re dealing with decent subjection to it snapping. It’s strong and you can tell that it is from the caliper and length of growth. It’s on there real good.
The rule however… is remove budding strips mid-July. Check. then decide…
a) if something should have a re-wrap (for removal after the following Spring’s growth which again is mid-July)
or b) it doesn’t need a repositioning of the budding strip.
Keep it tied weekly/tie weekly to a stake. Remove weekly all growth below the graft. If you don’t stay on it, all of a sudden one week will shock you and the rootstock will have thrown major growth and continues for quite a while - then slows again.
You gotta stay on things when the rootstock is really throwing growth or (should or if) two weeks pass and you weren’t on top of things, that could kill your scion. Not necessarily a scion of vigor stature that yours is showing, but, a weaker one.
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Thank you for the help.
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Shinsui pear
Got my stake ready for Shinsui for the long haul:
Docteur Desportes pear
Shin Li pear
EDIT:
Awesome, man. Appreciate the scionwood!
Thanks!
Dax
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Dax, great to see your successes! It’s the other way around though. Shinsui ripens early, and Shin Li keeps well (ripens maybe a little earlier than Korean Giant.)
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I did the same thing last year (leaving foil on bud grafts too long). I had decent luck with the apple pushing the following spring but the stone fruits didn’t like it so much and most never grew.
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Is citrus just that much harder than anything else? Almost all my citrus has failed (15+ grafts) yet my stone fruit, loquat, and mulberry took pretty easily and at a much higher success rate.
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My pear on mountain ash are pushing a lot of growth. Should I choose one scion per branch as the future leader and pinch back the others?
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Thanks Jack,
How are you grafts doing now?
Dennis
i would pinch off the ones growing toward the center to keep it from growing too thick. mine grew so vigorously on my mountain ash that the weight of the 1.5m of new growth bended toward the ground, so i cut them off about 16inches above the graft this spring . now they are sending out growth from what is left.
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@DennisD I had a lot of rain all at once 4-5 days ago and yesterday I checked the bark on walnuts for slipping and they are juicy, the right color green (dark green) and the slipping peeled down wonderfully. So, I set more grafts of a cultivar I didn’t get the first time. Keep on grafting…
Dax
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