Yes, that’s a better bet than rooting them.
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From my experience Fall is the best time and I don’t have to wait for Spring to do it. Summer is just too hot. October is the best month for me. Most of the scions will have time to heal, but not leaf out before going dormant. A few will push out, but most will leaf out the next year. The one with bud will show the first sign of leafing out the next year. I mostly cleft graft and sometime a cleft graft turned into a bark graft. I did a few veneer graft just to try it. Converted 3 peach trees into nectarine. Grafting most of the main branches.
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I have been hitting that same number doing 50 in the fall and 50 in the spring, This has been my routine for 3 years now. So far I have about 10 spring success, and only 1-2 fail from fall peach grafting. Heck if I know why. Same parents, same scions, same skill, same graft methods. If anything my skills have improved. I would not bet on the spring grafts I am attempting now. But I gave away almost all of my fall grafts with confidence. 
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I did all mine each year the first week of September. They almost all push new growth before dormancy.
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Am I reading this correctly that you’ve had nearly 100% success in September (about 148 of 150) but only about 7% success (about 10 of 150) for spring? Or am I misunderstanding? Because that would be a pretty strong argument in favor of September grafting in our climate.
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Yes , that has been my experience. Apples, and plums, and pears no problems spring grafting. Peaches I thought it was me until I tried the fall.
I donate them all to the pta plant sale.
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what style of grafts do you do in the fall?
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So interesting. I’ve done cleft and whip n tongue in spring, bud in august/September. Had good succes with buds grafts then - peach and nectarine both grown befire winter. Plum starting now. Out of 11 bud grafts, 9 success. And probably my fault for not doing 2 of the peach buds as tight. I was able to “bud graft” on of them as a little tiny 3-bud spur brach - and it grew great too. Yours look great. Nice to know you can break the “rules” of when to do these.
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Bob’s Nectarine … haha my neighbor’s name is Bob and i stole a stick. Small (apricot sized) super sweet juicy nectarines.