I went back and put some black pruning seal on top of the Vaseline. I spent too much time during the family Easter dinner grafting to let it be wasted time. The Vaseline had hardened up slightly but it hasn’t been hot and it has been cloudy out.
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I ordered 34 of the G890 RS from Cummins to trial. Some of the roots were were sparse on mine. I immediately potted the grafts in 4"× 12" tree pots in light soil mix & kept them in a dark room for a week or two to help grow roots out. All my grafts on G890 appear to have been a success but initially I was worried.
I will continue to use G890 over G210 which I found to be hard, brittle & the nodes super close on the stock. I’m a 1st year beginner and grafted G210 after grafting M111 and found the change in RS very different to work with. Could’ve been nerves since I was new. All the G210 RS appear successful. It appears I have 2 failures on M111 they were the first 4 grafts I made of 50 grafts on 4 RS types. I’ll take 48/50 successful grafts but they are all indoor in a controlled environment. Outside grafts are another level of challenge which I’ve avoided so far.
Trying to find that courage.
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Got a few grafts done today…
2 Green Gauge to my Mt Royal plum.
3 mulberry… Gerardi, Red, Shelli
1 graft of Saijo and 3 of Dar Sofiyivky persimmon.
TNHunter
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I too ordered G890 from Cummins and I can say they didn’t have too many roots and I was worried. All of my G890s took, however all of my OHF87s are as dead as a door knob. Not sure what happened, but none of them are pushing buds anywhere.
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My OHF87s were so slow last year - the grafts didn’t take, but the rootstock pushed some growth later in the season. I kept the rootstock in the ground and plan to graft again this year.
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I have them planted out in a garden bed. I plan on letting them there until fall. Hopefully they put on growth and arnt a total loss.
Im so sorry the pear rootstock did not work out. Maybe it needs an interstem?
Good luck with your growing season.
Is there a minimum amount of growth one should wait for, to graft pecans? My pecans here by Omaha are pushing buds, which is the signal I go by for most other trees. But I think all the videos I’ve watched, Their pecans had fully open leaves. Our highs aren’t quite up to 80 here, but they’ll be mid-70s for the next several days…
Pecans graft best when most of them have 2 to 4 inches of new growth. I’ve tried grafting earlier and had problems with bark still firmly attached. Temperature is also important with higher temps generally favorable so long as soil moisture is high.
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Gerardi whip/tounge to BRN russian mulberry rootstock.
Did this graft for a friend… have 3 others… Gerardi, Red, Shelli which will go in my new orchard.
In my new orchard… Silk Hope, Oscar, Kip Parker, Lawson Dawson, Gerardi, Red, Shelli.
When our new home is finished… I plan to put a few Gerardi in the yard.
Only Persimmons out number mulberries in my new orchard.
TNHunter
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Your whip and tongues are some of the nicest that I’ve seen.
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I maintain a list of pear varieties I would like to grow and try to arrange trades to obtain scions. I usually get most from the list. Sometimes I receive varieties that were not on my “wants” list and this year was no exception. I received 33 varieties which I dutifully checked off as they were received. I make a list of varieties and put in the number of grafts made so I can keep up with what has and has not been grafted. When I finished grafting Saturday, I had 2 varieties with scionwood received but did not show any grafts made. This is just a doublecheck I make to ensure I get everything on a rootstock somewhere. The varieties were Pai Li and Sucre de Montlucon. I have a few betulifolia rootstocks remaining so this morning I grafted the last two. I will still do some more pear grafting at another location, but for here at my home, most of it is done. I may try to set 2 or 3 more Beurre Alexander Lucas scions just to have a few extra trees.
I’m working on pecan grafts today with 14 varieties total to graft here at home. I will also be grafting a dozen or so trees at my place near Hamilton AL.
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Buried here under all the parafilm is a Catherine Bunnell plum on a Toka plum interstem, on a choke cherry rootstock. Quite the experiment. I need both plums to take, as the nearest plum I’ll have will be several hundred yards away.
Also, happy to report that my three apple on hawthorn rootstock grafts from last year made it through winter just fine. This one is a Trailman. I’m unsure what species of hawthorn I have growing here.
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I completed 10 pecan grafts today and made about a dozen apple grafts on B118. When I checked the pear grafts made a week ago, 3 had broken buds and are actively growing. The varieties are: Beurre Alexander Lucas, Ewart, and Orient all of which are looking very promising.
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What successful methods help the probability for pecan grafts to take? Ive read they can be a challenge to graft. Are some cultivars easier than others? I’ve been growing up native pecans to graft named varieties into them. I have Caddo, Candy, Desireable, Lakota & Choctaw to get scions.
Thanks for any tips. Im a beginner to grafting, only grafted 50 apples this season w/ 48 successful grafts.
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One of many grafts that look promising. It’s early, but the site is fully exposed to wind and sun. I have hope for most of the grafts that either look like this or are still dormant. We’ve had several days near 80 already with a fair bit of wind, some scions look dessicated, most still look healthy. I think if they hadn’t healed they’d all be dessicated similarly.
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This is SUCH a great demonstration with the carrots! Thank you!
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Okay, I have had way more success with my very first bench grafts than I ever expected! I now have 1 Mutsu, 2 Fuji’s, 2 Gravensteins, 2 Cox’s Orange Pippin (one promised to a friend), 2 or if I’m really lucky 3 Spartans, and waiting to see if 2 scions from a friend’s mystery heritage apple took. These are all grafted on M9 stock.
I’m planning to do either cordons or possibly a step-over or two and maybe one in a big pot. I’m not sure what to do with them in this first year while they heal and grow into proper treelets.
Should I plunk them into their planned future locations? Put them in a sort of nursery bed? Move into larger pots in hopes I can keep the watered well during the summer? Do I let them branch? Bloom?
I realize that my enthusiasm has far outstripped my knowledge. 
Can’t seem to paste photos using my phone, so here’s a link to pictures of my new baby trees. https://photos.app.goo.gl/oXB54VqavdtrgwTT6
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