Buds Flowers and Fruit - 2024 Edition

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September 18. There’s a photo of the grafts the day they were done here:

Best timing for peach grafting in the PNW

After being inspired to go check my peach tree by another thread, I inspected all the fall grafts I did on the tree, and it looks like they are mostly still alive, despite not growing in the fall. Both bark grafts and the only cleft graft are still alive, and two out of four T-buds look alive, too. Here’s what the bark grafts looked like when they were freshly grafted (September 18) vs today. [image] [PXL_20240213_170317028] Does anyone else in this region do their peach grafting in the fal…

You can see that I didn’t bother wrapping the scions and I left some partial leaves attached. We were already getting enough rain then that I didn’t think desiccation was a problem, and I didn’t want to remove all the leaves from a non-dormant cutting.