@Robert … sounds like your deer are despirate for food. In my front field there at at least 50 persimmon seedlings 2-3 ft tall (with no cage) and lots of other lucious grass and weeds other tree seedlings, clover, to eat.
I am much more worried about a buck rubbing (this fall) one of my grafts. Hopefully a cattle panel cage will discourage that.
I had 6 persimmons in those cages last fall and winter and nothing bothered them. Hope it works again this fall and winter.
The cages do work for rubs. Like what you have I start with a three foot ring. When it’s big enough I shrink the cage just big enough to protect from rubs.
Yes, my deer are starving. Their population with no one hunting them has gotten out of control and they have eaten everything.
i grafted 4 trailman crab to semi dwarf roostock. all took and all attempted to set a 5 bloom cluster with barely any leaf out 1st! talk about precocious!
Here’s my 6 main trees that I’ve grafted many other varieties onto. The six main trees are Keepsake, Zestar, Frostbite, Sweet 16, Chestnut Crab and Connell Red. In total there are just over 50 varieties. Behind the apples are a row of Romance cherries and then a row of lilac.
looks great! the only one i dont have is Connell red.
So far after first inspection, my Winter banana has green leaves but not much growth, I think it’s dying.
My Adriatic JH graft is also dead.
2 Sumo grafts are dead, only one sumo graft is half alive, good thing I bought 3.
I checked all the pears I grafted this spring. Out of 15 rootstocks grafted, exactly 1 scion failed. It happened to be Clara Frijs which I made 4 grafts with. These were cleft grafts onto 1 to 2 inch stock where I set 2 scions in each cleft. One of the four did not make it leaving 3 grafts that are growing vigorously. The other varieties I grafted are all growing rapidly. I’ve had years where I got 60% takes. It is nice to have every rootstock grafted with a growing scion.
Of the pecans I grafted, 2 failed outright with no acceptance and no growth. One graft is showing signs of delayed failure and will probably die over the next 2 weeks. I had 70% success rate which is pretty good when grafting pecan.
@TNHunter
That is some impressive growth on your grafts, good job.
Keep in mind that the hybrids ( jt-02 , others )and Asians ,must be picked
(Cut) from the tree , as they do not fall when ripe ,
May consider pinching the top on that Jt-02 to encourage lower branches so you wil not need much ladder work ?
I topped all my hybrids / Asians this year with that in mind.
I don’t want to be on top of a ladder cutting fruit off my trees ,
Be best if they were trained so as to reach most from the ground.
@Hillbillyhort … a little worried about deer with hybrid and asian persimmons hanging low enough for them to reach. I dont mind harvesting from my 4 ft step ladder… and if i had fruit in the 7-10 ft range… that should work.
If my fruit is hanging much lower than that… think that might be a problem. I may let them grow on up to around 8 ft and then top them and see how that does.
I only have one asian… IKKJ… and it is about 3 ft tall now. I may have to keep that one caged for several years. I dont think it gets all that tall… i may have to keep it caged forever.
@TNHunter
I understand the concerns of deer getting the fruit.
I used to feel quite comfortable on a ladder.
Picked apples for several seasons on a 16 ft.
Ladder in commercial orchards .
Lots of construction work on ladders , used to be able to carry a bundle of shingles up a ladder to the roof without holding side rails all day long .
But after several recent falls off a ladder , I am scared.
4ft may be my new limit ! ?
We ain’t getting any younger, just saying.
Mere Pippin was found in the UK by Nigel Deacon in 2007. A columnar tree, as I understand it, hangs well, late harvest, doesn’t oxidize when cut, might keep to June. Mr. Deacon wrote me this is best eaten in March and following. Just what I hope for.
I finally removed the electrical tape around my first graft, Yali pear, pretty ugly. But this tree now has 4 successfully varieties, Hosui, Chojuro, Yali, and 20th Century. Very exciting to see, I don’t have much luck with pears. Eventually I might graft my Daisui pear to it.
This is an update to my prior post. All 7 bark grafts of Morris Burton on two branches of Prok have taken. Some are farther along than others.
FWIW, once a shoot gets well-established, I remove the other shoots or buds on that scion. That’s why there is only one shoot on most scions.
Today I Removed grafting tapes from my apple grafts done on 2/14/23. For beginners my pics may be helpful so I am including these as illustrations of what you want to see! In both pics the callous lines trace a nice strong joint.
Standard whip & tongue pic
Modified to accommodate smaller scion pic
Dennis
Kent, wa
I took some pictures of my nectarine graft, Snow Queen, the one in full sun took, but the one under the tree umbrella didn’t, maybe you need sun to push growth.
No sun
Full sun
I was going to remove the electrical tape on Massandra jujube, but the tape is already broken, maybe I don’t have remove anything.
On Callery? I don’t think so. They can grow in swamps.
and deserts! Just look at Clark’s callery rootstocks for proof.
