Looks like the majority of grafts are taking, some are still sleepy and just waking up. Some definite takes on stuff I’m most keen on so happy so far.
I dug up a 1 year apple tree to transplant and since my soil sucks a huge section of root broke off. These three grafts were on a branched root system that I trimmed and split up. L-R: Muscat de Venus, McIntosh, Frostbite on M7
Sacrificing a Robinson crab to a multi-variety. Frostbite, more pixie crunch, red royal honeycrisp all growing good. pink lady was redone because a bird broke the callus. Muscat has not waken up yet.
I think my techique with the parafilm is bad but I never understand why some buds can push through sometimes and not others. It will be whole scions where only one bud breaks and everything else cooks and rots. Or they all boil under the plastic right after the stage you posted with green budswell.
My potted Milo Gibson from last year has green cambium and green rootstock cambium but hasnt leafed out yet… Super weird because it had 1 season of growth all last year
Pictures of persimmons (Fuyu, Kasandra, Chuchupaka, Zenji Maru, JT02 Mikusu,Chocolate) grafts taken on 3/9 and 6/16. The Kasandra graft was knocked and bent over by the watering wand a month ago, I straighten it back up but still hasn’t leaf out, it may be a lost cause.
Rubber band deteriorated and fell off in the sun this afternoon so I got a peak at one of the MM.111 to Ashmead’s Kernel grafts. A little difficult to see with the buddy tape still on it but the whip and tongue graft seems to be callused nicely. The other 9 grafts I did this Spring are doing well too.
noticed a broken graft on one of my multi-grafted pears. the growth was pretty strong so it must have been a bird. maybe the node will shoot out new growth
No. Glad to hear. I’ve read lots of different opinions of it on here. I will keep my eyes peeled at a farmers market but I may have to wait for these grafts to mature
I finally tracked down Frostbite apples last year but the variety has been on my list for years. I like intensely flavored smaller apples so muscat de venus might be one of those as well
It was a really clean break and was hanging by the outer layer of bark. It looks like that because a tried to unsuccessfully connect it back up with a splint and wrap that quickly failed. No large animals can get in the back yard. Could have been wind/rain from the storm the night before I guess. Birb seems more likely, though.
I have a plum tree onto which I grafted Toka about 7-8 years ago. The branch grew well but never produced fruit that survived the June drop. This year it set ridiculous amounts of fruit. It also split and the Toka branch, while still hanging on is pretty much a goner.
My original plan was to shorten the Toka part of the tree and the rest of the tree (which is very sparse and has never produced a fruit). Green wood is still too soft (I think). Any chance I could cut back hard and bark graft wood from last year or am I better off giving what remains a couple weeks for the green wood to lignify more? I’d like to save Toka at the least.
I’ll add a pic, this is this morning, about 5 days since the split happened (its been raining non-stop so this is the first time I could get out there and start removing the mess)
interesting, ive had a lot of grafts break, before i started reinforcing them, even when they are reinforced, they pretty much always break at the graft union.
i havent looked but maybe this was one of my cleft grafts and i positioned the cut parallel to the ground instead of perpendicular, giving it more strength.
