Thanks. 1/2 pushed leaves finally! Now, just waiting to see if the last one decides to grow.
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I grafted nine pawpaw seedlings a couple weeks ago. Had to carefully manage some unexpected chilly days, but Iām seeing signs of life on all of them. Grafted Halvin, Honeydew, and Summer Delight.
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Well my successful mulberry graft just snapped off
In other related news: is this like what i should expect when buying scion from like larger nurseries? I got 2 cherry and 2 apples and they were all so much thinner than I expected and it made it very hard for a beginner like me to graft since I couldnāt do a lot of the standard graft types easily. next to a pencil
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NIce. I didnāt graft seedlings, but I did my first pawpaw grafts 2 1/2 weeks ago. I grafted both Sunflower and Wabash to an isolated established Allegheny that needs pollinators. And I grafted LSU Chappell, Shenandoah, Potomac, and Susquehanna to an adolescent Sunflower just for fun. Maybe a dozen in total. All bark grafts. My grafts seem to be roughly as far along as yours. Hereās a representative pic.
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I have not tried buying scion of everything, although much of what I have bought has been about as thick as a pencil, a little more or less than 1/4 an inch
yeah this was quite a bit thinner than a pencil, and 4 buds total. which is fine on number of buds. the width howeverā¦.
My experience has been that scion wood significantly thinner than a pencil is very rare, although I have never bought cherry or apple scion wood before, I am not sure if there is a different standard for those types of fruit trees. I once even got scion that was about 1/8 of an inch thick, I was amazed that I was able to make a graft using my grafting tool with something that thin, although like I thought the graft failed, it being so thin.
One little white winter pearmain scion grafted onto the shady side of a Tompkins King 2 years ago. Two years ago the tree was loaded with fruit. Last year it took completely off. This year it overbore again but I had to thin a lot of damaged fruit. For now the fruit look kind of similar.
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Iāve received persimmon scions that thin and it came out fine. 3 for 3 this year on those actually
welp i broke off the blue pearmain graft by accident today
damn
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What method did you use?
Very nice! Iām hoping these warm days will supercharge them.
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Nearly done with grafting for this year. 18 persimmons yesterday and today, plus 3 from a couple weeks ago. One of the three may need a redo, but Iāll give it a week to be sure. Next up is walnuts. Iāll be waiting until itās good and hot to do those.
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Whip and tongue
how do you do that with such thin scion? it seems like it wouldnt work?
Bummer, Iām sorry!
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I actually find that size to be pretty easy with a properly sharpened knife. Itās only when you get down to nearly toothpick size you have to watch you donāt just cut through when doing the tongue. That being said, bark grafts are a great alternative for wood thatās skinnier than youāre comfortable handling.
As for your original question, Iād say thatās within what Iād expect to receive if ordering scion wood.
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I found a really thin branch to graft it to 
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I got a scion that was closer to half an inch than a quarter and I made a crazy inverted graft on my tiny seedling persimmon that was already in the ground, the graft worked perfectly well even though my technique was āupside-downā and the Scion was almost 3x the diameter of the rootstock.
I think I did a side lap graft with a tongue, obviously upside-down from the typical large rootstock and small Scion.
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