Apples March 30th, Pears today
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Hudson’s are a little later to leaf out and flower in the field, too. Paw paws, in my experience, are the latest.
Edible Landscaping “Gerardi” mulberry is not the true variety? Dang have one on the way.
I would think they’d be fine.
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Does anyone callus off bench grafts in aged wood chips? I have some pear + plum to do over the next few weeks. Plan is to stick a few dozen plum bench grafts in a bin with drainage holes+woodchips in my basement for 2-3 weeks minimum.
Last year I used wood shavings from Tractor Supply. It worked fine. I have yards of woodchips that were cut last year and have been sitting by the road between 50-200 yards from my house since last june.
I assume I am safe doing this… the goal would also be to colonize the bare rootstocks with beneficial microorganisms from the woodpile. Id prefer to save the 7$ and am due to for at least a carload or two of woodchips anyway…
I purchased my second this year during one of their free shipping promos. What is your preferred sharpening method with these? Do you keep the double bevel… I believe it is just a kitchen paring knife quite honestly. I did ~100 grafts last year and it was up to task.
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Check out these threads:
And there are probably others. Mine grew taller than me last year AFTER summer pruning it back. After comparing mine to the pictures of true gerardi, I knew it wasn’t right. Growth rate is crazy and node spacing is huge. It did have some good berries though. But very few.
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I hate to hear that for both of us. Sounds like you did not get the real thing. I read it’s a good rooting variety and was hoping for that. O well. hopefully we can find the real one eventually.
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I just grafted mine so that’s always an option! Those threads I linked to also list reliable sources for true Gerardi. I’m not sure why Edible Landscaping continues to sell theirs (unless they’ve hopefully fixed the issue).
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When do you graft che onto osage orange? I was thinking when some leaves start growing, but not sure exactly when.
Dug up over half a dozen trees for rootstock.
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I did it when it was warm and growing 75-85 during the day and at least 50 at night. They took but the cows ate the grafts. I recomend having a dedicated grafting knife for osage, it ruined the edge on one if my knives.
Also if you have the time you can cut it back and graft onto a fresh stem the following year, that 1st year wood isn’t as tough on the blade. Bark graft would probably be best really.
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@svr68 … mine has a bevel on one side only and when sharpening it I have maintained that.
TNHunter
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I grafted once leaves started showing on the Osage Orange
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Are pecans easy to accept grafts?
Pecans are among the hardest plants to graft. If you can pick the right temperature, right stage of growth for the rootstock, right amount of rainfall, and store the scions exactly right, you can successfully graft pecans… about 60% of the time.
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Thats great. I was strolling around reading post and even liked you first graft picture some days ago and saw it again this morning. Hope it is successful.
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Question
I had some majorly angled OHxF87 rootstocks from Cummins where the 1yr wood was at least 45° from center. I don’t normally like to W&T on the older wood and they’re so thick that it’s hard to cut them anyway.
Do you guys usually cut the angled growth off and just cleft graft onto the straight pieces or graft lower down the newer growth? I went the latter route and hoped to get growth out of the lowest bud and train it straight upward. I did that in a Warren pear graft last year that turned out okay. But I’m wondering what the majority does with these.
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