2025 Grafting thread

[Ginda]

No, all of the grafted material is above the damage. There’s no way to save it by cutting it back.

I attempted a bridge graft. I wrote about it here:

The great winter girdling of 2026. Do I have any hope of recovery?

I should have posted here I, also, live in Eastern MA, and had the same problem. It occurs to me that i have a random apple rootstock i bought years ago, decided i didn’t have any use for, and potted up. It lives in the shade, and has never gotten very large. But this afternoon I’m going to see if it’s large enough to use as a bridge graft here. I’ll also look around and see if i can find any volunteer apple seedlings. That’s what both the scion and the root were on my damaged tree. Maybe th…