Thank you @DennisD !
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My hunch is that without an interstem you may be able to graft it over to a Pluerry since Pluerry varieties are a hybrid of cherry. To graft other stonefruits you would need an interstem with wood compatible to Lapins.
Dennis
Kent, wa
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I’m with Dennis regarding the side buds - and would graft with that scion ASAP.
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Thanks for clarifying Dennis. I don’t want to lead others astray. At least those Giombo and IKKJ cuttings are looking promising.
I will keep the updates fail or flourish. I find grafting more fun than video games or movies. I missed my calling. I think field grafting all day on a farm would be an amazingly fulfilling job.
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Yes but … try to graft asap, wrap the scion thoroughly with parafilm, shade with aluminum foil if necessary, and so on. If the graft heals enough before the scion dries out you should be OK.
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Thanks again for the Sundance, lamb abbey, and windham russet.
. Next time I am in Spokane I will let you know. My BFF from high school has a vinyl/ used amp instrument store on garland right by you. So I will be in your neighborhood for sure.!
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@Noddykitty You are in the right neighborhood to grow Windham & few even know about it. Lamb Abbey is one of my favorites. Sundance? Someday I’ll get close to it again. May they & you prosper.
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My Asian pear on the crab apple tree flowered. Excited as there’s a good chance of getting pears from an apple tree. Then, my apple seedling branch that was grafted next to the pear graft woke up. There is no inter stem. Pear cycle and apple cycle are different. Pear woke up before the apple.
Pear flowers
Double side graft. Pear on top and apple on bottom.
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I did my apples and pears yesterday. Going to let them grow out and plant most in the Fall.
Is the cambium of B9 red? I saw streaking in the wood like I’d expected. Very little green though, but they didn’t seem dried out and dead.
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My pear grafts are getting covered in pill bugs. Going to try spraying neem, and maybe spreading some de around
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There is also Tanglefoot,spread as a band,around the trunk,near the base.
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Thank you. I’m going to try that on my figs this year, but these bench grafts are too small to wrap with that I think. Maybe not though
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Last year about this time. I bark and bud grafted this peach rootstock that I dug out as a root sucker, from an old peach tree that blew over. I did this more for just practice than anything. I snapped a scion off my mother in laws peach tree that i have no idea the variey either. Well you can see both the bud and bark grafts took. The flowers are nice and the little tree is trying to give me peaches. I’ll prune off the bud graft and plant this out in the orchard. I’ve named it after my mother in laws first name (Marge Peach). Hopefully it’ll grow up to.be something for the family to remember her by.
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. Double hearts for that. What a nice story.
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I’m considering trying some early season mulberry grafting, but wonder if it is still TOO early. The rootstock buds look like this:
That was a failed graft last year and now I have a bunch of stems to choose from:
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I feel ya. I planted my first mulberry last summer. The nursery sent the wrong variety. I obtained scion from a very nice forum member here for the right variety, and my mulberry is just a bit behind yours in bud swell.
I think I’ll wait until I at least see green on a few buds.
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So while I’m at it, a question.
On newly grafted rootstock here are my choices:
1). After new bud growth gets a decent length (say, 6+inches each), pick the most vigorous one and remove any others.
2). Let the new growth do what it wants the first year regardless of how many low laterals it develops, gathering resources and building a good root system, then winter prune before spring next year.
I see value in both ideas. Speaking about plum / pluot here.
Goal is manageable suburban lot trees.
Any strong ideas?
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Yeah, you’ll see the first photo does show a bit of green. I grafted mulberry successfully last April, but haven’t tried in March.
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I did a bunch of stonefruit grafts late January, and almost all are woken up and flowered. Here is a bark graft that looks especially happy.
I’ve also done a bunch of asian pears on shinseki and they all look good. here is a Fan-Stil pear grafted 1/29 and also how it looks earlier this week.
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