Beginner's questions about grafting apples

[marknmt]

You’re getting good advice here from everybody.

A few years ago I did a few posts about grafting which were intended to get input from others on the forum. (My own comments were pretty basic, but the responses are gold - a real wealth of information from people with much more experience). The idea was to provide something of an outline to help keep all that information handy and to lay out the basic nomenclature, which can confuse. Here are a couple of them -I hope they are useful to you:

Basic tip for new grafters # 1 Gathering and Storing Scions) (discussion invited!)

I thought it might work to start a series of post along the lines of “Basic Tips for New Grafters”. The idea is that one of us will enter a tip with details, and others will chime in with their own thoughts, disagreements, and refinements. I’ll lead off with a few words about, you guessed it, “Gathering and Storing Scions”. Anybody can chime in, ask questions, raise objections, and so on. And anybody can start the next “Basic Tip.” It would be a lot of fun if somebody did. So here we go! The e…

Basic Tips For New Grafters #2: Different Grafts (Discussion Needed)

I’m really hoping that others here will tear into this stuff and fix it fill it out as they see the need. Please do! Please!! When I started grafting I didn’t know the difference between grafts, so I thought it might be useful to lay out a few points. A lot of people graft in the spring as the destination tree is getting ready to take off. Typically grafters like to wait until the tree has small leaves on it, and the grafts generally used are splice (also known as whip), or cleft, or a splice …

Good luck and have fun.