Hmmm. I’ve never had elec tape girdle a graft, maybe because I use the stretchy kind. I leave tape on bark grafts at least 6 months, up to 12 months on pawpaw that heals so slowly.
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I have similar experience with high rubber content electrical tape. It stretches and does not girdle.
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Have used various types of electrical tape. It’s really bad in every case - the graft area stays slender while the rest of the tree thickens. That creates a weak point. I’ve lost numerous grafts and I will never use electrical tape again. Regular grafting rubber is made for grafting. Electrical tape is made for insulating electrical connections.
Let me see if I can pull up a photo.
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You can remove the tape as soon as the callus is formed and you won’t have that problem. It looks like you used that self fusing stretchy tape and I have seen it do that too
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I don’t have a orchard to speak of but here are a few pictures
This is a Washington Navel Mato Butan Pomelo, Sue Linda Temple Tangelo and Clemenules Clementine approximate age 10 years
This is a lemon to which I have grafted Mexican Lime, Millsap Limetta, Frost Owari Satsuma and Shiranui Mandarin.
I’ll try and take some pictures of the smaller multi graft citrus later.
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Those are beautiful citrus! There is something about the appearance of citrus i like then there are the fragrant blooms and delicious fruit.
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Not really grafting, but cutting to promote branching… looks like I can direct flow of sap to other buds if I want other branches
Unknown pear, an old tree near my daughter’s daycare. Whip and tongue graft in March. About 29 inches of growth above the graft union and that’s after being chomped back by a deer.
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I had several successful black walnut grafts that I did late spring. @fruitnut Thank you again for the seedlings. I used some as rootstock. Some I’ll grow out.
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Cherries and pears grafted later in March.
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Here’s an avocado I grafted in late March, but it didn’t start growing until about a month ago. The amount of growth in one month seems almost impossible. Here it was on July 4th:
Here’s the same graft (from the opposite side) today, that bottommost bud has already grown thicker than the scionwood:
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Does the callus tissue create anything that bumblebees feed on? My only thought is that its maybe drinking water in the crevices… This was 9pm.
Macoun on a crab limb.
Still working my way through this springs scionwood… It finally dipped below 90 so appropriate weather for this now. I have to cut the parafilm otherwise water gets trapped and it bakes… have lost a few this way. Moyer on mirabelle, looks promising
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Ha! Some of mine I can barely find, myself! I don’t know how many times I’ve said to myself, “Wait! Where is the graft???” 
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Where exactly did you cut? On the branch? Or the trunk?
I cut right above the budding area where I wanted to redirect the sap, toward new growth. Take a careful look, both those branches on top of each other show a scar. I will remove one of them this winter.
Okay so i did that tonight on a couple roses 
Also, Pakistani mulberry on rooted cutting of a hardy, drought tolerant, vigorous volunteer from my parents’ house in the desert.
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My daughter and SIL bought a place out in the country… nice old farm house… 4 acres… no fruit trees… but one crabapple that makes tiny inedible fruit.
This spring… I got started on adding a few things for them. This is what they are looking like this fall.
Improved kieffer grafted to a callery. Hopefully it takes off and grows more nezt year.
This is a Chicago Hardy fig… I rooted for them.
Kasandra hybrid persimmon.
Kip Parker mulberry.
TNHunter
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Here is an update on some similar grafts on Asian pears. The Fan Stil initially grew the died probably from lack of water. Send a little ugly but the branch is healthy and grew 24” while the main tree is still in a pot
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I did an experimental bench graft of a 1ft long morus nigra branch on Sept 25. (I have some more cuttings in the fridge if anyone has something to trade) It dripped sap for a couple days. Almost at the 3rd week now and it’s looking promising. Buds are swelling and the top bud started leafing out. Also started a Java Plum graft last weekend with some cuttings in the pot to see if they will root…
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