That stuff looks really good, but I use regular rubber bands. You can get them plenty tight but best thing is by the time the graft is good and strong they will dry rot off on their own (or with minimal assistance). If you’re doing a ton of grafts better to have something that won’t need an additional input, and I save every rubber band from the mail or whatever into a junk drawer for my few annual grafts.
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Should I trim the wood that is above the bud? I’ve always wondered this when grafting where exactly to cut above the new growth.
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I personally have cut it of to a 1/4" above the first shoot, but don’t know if it’s a good or bad. It seems to turn out fine for me, but probably completely unnecessary.
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I have a grafting question. I have a grafted heartnut. The graft union looks like is was done flat. I saw a fig grafting video that had a stick looking protrusion and was done flat. Wondering if anyone grafts like that.
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I bought this CHE from Englands Orchard in 2020… it is grafted to osage orange and was quite small when I got it. The graft was clearly a whip/tounge.
But now that it has completely healed and grown for a few years… you cant tell it was originally WT.
I expext that several other types of grafts would heal and look like that too…
Cleft, modified cleft, bark grafts… for example.
TNHunter
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Just ordered me one finally yesterday. I’m excited about it and wish I had ordered one the moment you mentioned it. Scratching names onto aluminum cans was getting old. Now I have far too many grafts that I just have to remember what is what, while I have a good memory; I’d rather not rely on it.
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3/4" or so of slant in a graft will look much flatter on a 10" trunk, years later, than on a 1/2" rootstock.
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Hey noddykitty, i found you here. I will figure this thing out. But in the mean time, hello growmie
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