Little hint of green from the unknown peach tree graft.
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UK extension office is hosting an apple grafting class on Saturday. I’ve been like 4 years in a row but haven’t been in about 4 years. Debating if I’m going to go, it’s a 40 mile drive one way.
I have 5 trees in my front yard from grafts I did over the last few years. Here’s some pics of them in the snow this winter. One of them, a Suncrisp, actually produced about a dozen apples last year.
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. Have secured the recent grafted trees now.
Yah the squirrels stripped all the bark off my B-9 rootstock last year just as the buds were opening.
I’ve trapped 33 of them from my city yard since October. Hope to have less problem with them this spring.
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Jeez thats terrible. I think its just one squirrel doing the damage and seems like its just eating the mulberry buds.
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So I found a way to get my hand on one of these garden shear to try out. I gotta say that this simple modification of the shear makes it much easier to get an flat and even slanted cut for grafting. I can see I’m going to be using it a lot this grafting season since my lack of knife skill usually result in wavy cut surface and wasted scions.
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Messing around with bench grafting Goumi to AO. Buds are pushing and bark slipping on these, and the 10 day forecast is warm here. Felt pretty rusty using my grafting knife again, but warmed up after while. A fun way to practice before the ~500 bench grafts I’m planning for this year
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Oh my, I am so excited!! I metioned a crabapple near my parent’s house that i really wanted to get cutting or graft of. Last summer '24, I did both and it looks like they made it!!
If it really makes it, that is my first successful graft!!
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Congratulations!
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Anyone a strong proponent of wedge grafts for bench grafting? This year I’m finding them to be sturdy and easy to execute at grafting time.
Unfortunately I dont have good data from last year to analyze how many took but this year I should.
I’m optimistic!
Third year grafting for me and it still amazes me.
Congrats on your first graft take and successful rooting of a cutting.
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Tossed some pear grafts on my pear tree, a couple pluots and a fig (maybe jumped the gun on it but I have more in case it fails)
Love being able to get some grafts up, looks like we are in the clear on frost knocks on wood
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did you bud graft to create new scaffolds/branches or other graft onto scaffold/branches? im still trying to figure out how to shape and multi-graft my 2-3yr old container pears.
Grafted onto existing branches, now I have 4 varieties on my one tree
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Last week I grafted Red Delicious and Arkansas Black onto M111. I grafted Bartlett (from neighbors tree), Warren, and Moonglow on OHxF87. No pics of those.
Moonglow on Callery Rootstock
Unknown Peach on Wild Plum Rootstock
Methley on Wild Plum Rootstock
Flavor King on Wild Plum. It has put on 2ft+ of growth. I staked it this morning.
Bartlett on Callery Rootstock
Dapple Dandy on Wild Plum grew a little and then started wilting. I cut open the tape and the graft had failed. So I regrafted it this morning.
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is this a controlled environment of some type?
It is in a semi-finished room in my shed. I have a small space heater in there that kept it 65-70* during the cold days. It has been semi-warm here for the last week and it has stayed 60-65* in there.
My next step is to figure out how to harden the off outside. We have a new puppy (5 months old) that will destroy them if I leave them out unattended.
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I think my dmor9 graft is dead. The buds are going brown now