Mostly whip-n-tongue shifted to the side, or a cleft if the scion is small.
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Modified cleft graft
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I added 4 grafts of Raintree select goumi.. to my existing goumi bushes.
Also.. 4 grafts of Waneta and 4 Grafts of Alderman to my two Jplums.
A mix of modified cleft and bark grafts.
TNHunter
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Awesome post.
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I’m getting the urge to graft at least apple but nothing feels ready yet out there. then it rained today!
I’ll probably do my one apple graft (Calville Blanc d’Hiver) soon. i know i need to wait on peaches, does anyone know about nectarine timing? first time grafting those this year.
I’ve got Italian plum and schoolhouse plum and yellow egg plum scion i cut over winter and nobody to give it to. it’s in the fridge bothering my partner when he makes salad.
I’ll probably give them away at my free table in late April and hope it’s ok timing for people to use em.
one of last year’s efforts, wolf River on gravenstein. if it ever produces it’ll need to be propped up i guess
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A few of my grafts seem to have taken and some did not. I still have some time to redo the ones that didn’t take. I also have 2 rootstocks that were planted outside last year that I will graft next week. Saturday morning is showing a low of 30 and then After that it’s supposed to be 70’s/50’s. Here are a few that have taken.
Flavor Grenade really taking off!
Sweet Treat
Black Ice Plum
Splash
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@dkr06022012 if you don’t mind me asking, what rootstock(s) are you using with your stonefruit.
They are suckers that I dug up from my in-laws 2 old Prunus Americana (American Plum).
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I started my grafting last weekend: one of the K1 rootstocks split and just kept splitting when I was trying to do a cleft graft to it. There was 3/4” split below the graft. I was so unhappy with it that I took it all apart and tried whip and tongue instead. Only 3 inches of rootstock remains now and the graft is not good. I’ll be shocked if it works. I had 2 K1 rootstocks, both looked great with 3 top shoots starting to leaf out and one was very easy to graft, but this one just sucked. Is the splitting a sign of something bad? Naturally, no pictures.
I thought I had more time, but noticed yesterday that my plums are suddenly awake and far along leafing out, and it’s going to be warm. Time crunch to graft them? Apples are still very asleep.
K1 for cherry? plum? something else? Are they outside? or inside? I wasn’t planning to start stonefruit grafts till May, but next week looks really warm… so maybe then. Mine will be outside.
I used adara interstem and grafted cherry. Bench. They’re in pots in my warm garage. I wanted to try grafting cherry straight to it since it has a Cherry parent, but was worried. There were 6 sizeable shoots off the 2 rootstocks with buds that I am trying to root. They flowered….if they work, I’ll try Cherry directly next year. I’m going to field graft whitegold next week after all the plums. It’s supposed to be 70-80.
Did i graft too early? Last year was my first year and i had a low success rate and thought maybe because i waited till end of april and some of my wood looked dead. So i started this weekend with hybrid plums, asian pears and sour cherries. 10 day forecast a few days ago had the lowest temp of 31f but now its supposed to get to 24f tomorrow night. Is that a problem? I though about rubber banding bubble wrap or something but its also supposed to be windy which might create movement. On the plus side my trees are sorta between 2 houses so it might be a little protected
Piggybacking off this question, but for mulberries. I haven’t grafted yet and this upcoming week should be the last week of freezing/below freezing weather at night. Is waiting one week best?
What if there’s upcoming Rain? Should it not matter much so long as there’s no heavy storms?
For pome and stone fruit cold spring weather would not cause a graph failure - both the stock and scion are outside normally. Ensure the unions are mechanically sound.
These are Asian pears, Flavor King, and sweet cherry grafts done 19 days ago, the buds are swelling and breaking the parafilm.
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You think even 24f? Chatgpt sounded like they would be nuked below 28f. Id rather not wrap them bc wind is supposed to be 25mph and that might cause a lot of movement
In my opinion, 24F is sketchy, but not impossible. I had a cold spell about 10 days ago that hit 24. 2 apple and 1 euro pear cleft grafts fared well, 2 euro pear chip buds and 1 apple chip bud got zapped completely. The pear cleft browned a little, but the new growth pushed right through the browned scales.
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Might need to elaborate for a proper recommendation. If you grafted recently I am assuming the scion buds are still dormant. The scion buds themselves wouldn’t be affected differently than other buds outside. I am also assuming a typical 1 or 2 bud graft… if you’ve grafted a whole branch, yeah, that would be a problem for wind.
Yeah just a few days ago, mix of cleft and whip and tongue scions about 6-10 >inch long