Lone montmorency in coffee can
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Scion bought from England nursery.
So many newly grafted scions fail to realize that they’re not adults anymore! It takes them a while to adjust to their reincarnation as children.
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Several baby trees in pots that were slow to start leafing out can now be reliably considered to have failed after 3 days in the upper 90s. Little leaves just dried up. Grafts on Pacific crab, a tree local to my region, look good in pots and in the ground. Here’s a little Milo Gibson as an example. Just 2 cleft grafts. Rootstock diameter was laughable in April, but is starting to size up a little.
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I bought a pair of cut resistant gloves and feel more emboldened,when making a tongue cut or holding onto a branch,to steady when using a knife.Only one is needed at a time and they are thin enough to leave on,but I usually remove it,while doing the other parts of grafting and it only takes a few seconds.
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Is that growth from the scion or the rootstock? It looks like the wrapped scion is pushing buds under the plastic in places.
Sometimes I wrap scions in parafilm except for the bottom two buds and everything under plastic cooks in the sun and only the unwrapped buds survive. Other times they break through fine… Grafting is always an adventure
Spice Zee Nectaplum on a Nanking Cherry from TSC.
Asian pear from seed on a crabapple in the woods. I totally did it on purpose and not because I’m an idiot and thought it was a callery pear.
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Some of the scion wood for Chuchupaka was quite thick, so I used it for bark grafts on an established DV. Both grafts are popping.
FWIW, I believe the tree to be infected with SDS so this may be a test of the vulnerability of this hybrid. So far, so good. Last year, similar grafts of Nikita’s Gift failed when JT-02 and H-118 succeeded.
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Stupid birds perched on my Rosseyanka persimmon graft and broke the leaves and stem that had come out right off of it. It was my first persimmon graft to break bud, so was very disappointing. The persimmon stumps I grafted to are in a big open field with few trees and places for birds to perch, so they are loving the persimmon stumps and pawpaw stumps with grafts on them for perching spots. I watch them fly from graft to graft. Horrifying!
So I decided to take some of the twiggy branches off the tops I had cut out of the persimmon and pawpaw trees and tape them to the stumps protruding above the grafts. Hoping those birds will use the branches as perches instead of my grafts.
Dollywood persimmon coming out pretty well with branches taped to be taller than grafts.
Dollywood and DEC Goliath starting to pop.
Rosseyanka trying to pop from a different bud after the first one was broken off.
I grafted the persimmons on 5-10-25 and 5-17-25 and we had a stretch of cloudy, cool drizzly days after that. I noticed they just sat there and were doing nothing for a long while and I got worried. Then we had a stretch of warm, sunny weather in the past week and a half, and it seemed to help them and they began to pop.
Hopefully the branches taped to the trunks will help. We shall see.
Sandra
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There’s two scions there. One leafed out nicely and the other is kind of pathetic. There are also rootstock leaves showing. I pinched them off for a couple weeks and then stopped bothering. I am still pinching leaves off the potted grafts.
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Is that hickory back on hickory? If so, is encouraging because I plan to do the same thing with a redbud and can’t find any info on anyone who has done it.
Have any of you ever had a successful graft in which the new growth on the scion didn’t come from a node/bud? This is a jujube graft in which there has been no growth from the node/bud of the scion yet, but instead there was callusing at the exposed cambium at the cut at the tip of the scion that has resulted in a new bud. I’ve never seen this before (on a graft of jujube or any other plant), and I think it’s pretty neat.
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Not sure if this is where I should post this, but I have some scion wood left over that I don’t need and hate for it to go to waste. If anyone needs it, I will send it 2 day express free of charge. I have:
Carmine Goumi
Xu Zhou jujube
Shi-Hong jujube
Sugarcane jujube
Kanza Pecan
First one who messages me, I will let you know and you can send me your mailing info.
Sandra
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My first successful citrus graft. This is a Nordman Seedless cleft graft on a kumquat seedling. All of my previous citrus bud grafts failed.
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Most of my grafts seem to be taking, Even peaches. Still waiting to see on pecans. Just grafted them a week ago. Will post pictures of the various grafts that I believe have taken soon. However, my mulberry grafts seem to be having a hard time except for this Varaha graft which I grafted onto a big old Russian alba that I beheaded and which bled sap excessively for at least a week after grafting. One other Varaha graft on that tree may be taking, but the two Illinois Everbearing grafts on that same tree budded out, then shriveled. Maybe another bud will pop on them?
I also did 6 grafts of Gerardi dwarf to a dwarf everbearing mulberry I planted last year. They seem to have big brown buds swelled up but are not growing further, just sitting there. I was really excited about the mulberries and everyone seems to think they are not too hard to graft, but they seem to be the most challenging to me. I am still hopeful one of the Gerardi grafts will make it, but who knows?
One of the Varaha grafts that seems to have taken is making fruit. See photo below. And I see buds pushing on quite a few of the jujube grafts which were done pretty recently, maybe 7-10 days ago, so I am very excited and hopeful for the jujubes.
Sandra
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I’ve never made a bud graft work. Not sure if it’s my shakey hands or what, but cleft grafts work for me most of the time. I have failed exactly once on citrus cleft grafts out of dozens of attempts.
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