Late last spring I had someone send me scion of kip parker and lawson dawson.
I bought 4 mulberry rootstocks from BRN and potted those up and waited for them to leaf out some… then did whip/tounge grafts of KP and LD to them.
One of the rootstocks was slow to leaf out and that graft failed… the other 3 were very successful. I have a LD and KP in my orchard now… and my daughter has a KP at her home.
This spring I am going to try the same with a couple of gerardi, a red mulberry, and a shellie.
I’m trying 4 methods with my scions this year. First is to just do fig pops with wild mulberry cuttings and when they show a lot of roots I plan to graft them (1st picture shows leafing out quickly but don’t see any root yet). 2nd method (2nd pic) was to buds graft the cuttings and root them in a single step. I give them less sun light with this method hoping to give the root a chance to start before leafing out. Just started this a week ago so we’ll see. My 3rd method was to graft them to a wild mulberry tree in my backyard a few days ago. And the last backup method is to graft them to my potted Tehama when it start to wake up…my ways of making sure the scions I got will be successful somehow…lol
