I would wait to graft apricots until its pretty steady temperatures.
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I’m slowly removing some of the electrical tapes to see what the calluses, they are ugly to say the least, and I’m not sure they are strong grafts either.
Sumo, I’ve decided to buy this tree when it’s available, $25 down the tube for this, while removing the ET, I knocked out some emerging leaves too. But I’m not ordering anymore scions.
BNR graft, not sure I should cover with something because the graft seems very fragile without the electrical tape, especially with the squirrel out there.
CDDNoir
Figo Preto
Violetta bud graft
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i leave the elec. tape on until early fall with no ill effects. it stretches out with the graft.
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Thanks @steveb4, I’m going to rewrap them in Parafilm to give them a bit of support. With the BNR graft, the Parafilm was suffocating one emerging bud so that’s why I removed it.
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excellent job! i wouldn’t even notice if you didn’t point it out. my cleft grafts aren’t so pretty but after 3-4 years they disappear also.
Prok to wild DV … April 25.
It was grafted about 12 inches high… and has now grown out the top of 50 inch cage.
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Just did some cherry grafting for a neighbor, thought I’d share.
My neighbor has a couple old sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) trees planted as street trees, and they are somehow holding a huge crop of cherries this year despite the main trunks both looking like this:
They appear to be Montmorency or something similar.
One of them has a vigorous cherry seedling of mysterious parentage growing right next to it, which fruited for the first time last year and has more this year:
The fruit is small and dark when ripe, slightly sweet, it might actually be a seedling of the next neighbor’s flowering cherry, which I believe is Prunus serrulata (Japanese cherry), and which sets a small number of black, unpalatable fruit every year. There are at least three other cherry species within a block, so it really could be almost anything, but whatever it is they prefer the sour cherry and asked me to graft this over to the variety on their dying trees. I did a couple T-buds:
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Improved kieffer and kieffer grafted to callery transplants. Very nice growth.
Novamac grafted to M7 last spring.
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Got about 300 grafted plum, apple and pear in this nursery bed. Coming along nicely considering we’ve been living in a sunless rainforest so far this growing season.
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this rain and heat has done wonders in my new orchard. all but 1 bareroot apple grafts are growing as well as most i planted on cardboard have survived and growing well. having a hard time keeping weeds in check as i cant spray and keeping the tent caterpillars from eating everything has been a struggle. your Canadian plum scions took and are putting on growth now on my black ice/ waneta plum and carmine jewel cherry. for growing grafted trees , you couldn’t have asked for better weather. for us , not so much.
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Weed pressure has been insane due to the rains. Seen some mildew on some tree seedlings where the weeding got away from me for a bit. Airflow has been the orchardists best friend this year for sure because there’s been no sun to burn the dew off. I’m sure it’s not true, but it’s felt like my trees have done 90% of there growing during the 5 or so days of full sun we’ve had the last month and a half. You can almost hear them growing on those days it seems. Glad to hear my wood got you some takes!
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same here . the last couple days we got some sun. felt like a sauna out there but the plants are loving it. damned cane borers, earwigs and horseflies are terrible! seems black ice a partially self fertile and set 4 plums. next year it should be loaded. got it from fedco spring 22’. nice sized tree. also got a Manchurian and brookcot apricot also grafted on it. haven’t seen more than a few days of sun at a time since late May. horrible! if i wasn’t for the 3 sprays of pesticide/ fungicide i snuck in, id get no crops this summer/fall.
Several pears I bark grafted this year. I added support to all of them. I removed tape on some of the grafts. I plan to open up the canopy a bit more later on.
Turnbull and then a closer pic after removing tape
Raja
Chojuro
Harrow Sweet and then a closer pic after removing the tape
20th Century
Drippin’ Honey
Dixie Delight (2-year old graft)
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Kentucky looks like the middle of the jungle compared to dry Eastern Washington!
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There was a 2 to 3 week period where it was hot and dry. Otherwise, we’ve been getting sufficient timely rains to keep things green. Summers, at times, can experience drought, but we usually get about 50" of rain a year. I’d probably trade our humidity with yours though.
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I’ve been doing lots of avocado grafting now that the seedlings germinated over the winter are starting to get big enough to easily graft them without my clumsy hands damaging the stems.
But I’m also trying to get better at budding avocados, so I’ve done a few of those on larger rootstocks or on existing grafts. Here’s a side branch on a “Jade” tree I planted out this spring, which I added a “Duke” bud to today:
If the bud takes, I’ll remove the branch above, which will of course be saved as scionwood. This will be the first outdoor test of Jade, so I’m thinking I may need to remove this side branch in the winter anyhow, to make it easier to cover the tree if necessary.
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I did some apple grafts probably almost 2 months ago, almost all took and started growing quite quickly after the initial grafts. I grafted a couple of different scions onto a Fuji espalier apple tree to add a few different varieties onto it other than just fuji and to start another tier. The top graft took and has been growing OK for like a month and a half now. The graft on the bottom branch hadn’t shown any sign of growing in the better part of 2 months. Every time I’ve passed the tree lately I’ve just considered cutting off the cleft graft as it seemed obvious it was never going to grow. Low and behold today I noticed a couple of buds on this King apple scion starting to show signs of life. Just goes to prove you just never know.
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Hurray, my Sumo scion not only took but is growing nicely with maybe tiny flower buds, phew, for a long time I wasn’t quite sure. I thought I wasted my money in the 3 scions, plus shipping, at that rate I might as well just buy the darn plant from Four Winds.
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