Anyone here have a good tutorial? I have seen as few Youtube videos but sometimes they don’t tell the whole story. Many don’t have close shots, skip a step here or there, or do it on fruit that has a huge success rate.
Pics would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance!!
I’m not sure if this video is any more informative than some other ones.It’s from Kentucky State U.,about chip budding Pawpaw. Brady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3whSrfne9zM
I second Matt’s comment.
Awesome!! Thanks for the replies and the video links. Watched them all. Now here is a question for you guys… Weather. Right now I understand that the graft will have to “heal over” and in order to do so needs warm temps. With the temps right now being (next weeks predictions) high 50’s-low 60’s for highs next week and I can/will be bringing in the rootstocks at nights (when temps are expected to be in the mid 30’s) can I graft pluots/plums now? Or should I wait until the temps during the days are a little warmer?
In my z7a backyard, I successfully grafted Hesse plumcot onto a Thundercloud cerasifera/myrobalan ornamental plum on April 10 last year. Simple cleft graft with small wood.
I also successfully saddle-grafted Methley onto a Beauty plum on Citation. But I cannot remember on which date I executed that graft.
In future, I intend to keep better date records.
just planted 50 peach rootstock in south texas, and was wanting to get them grafted before the spring. Would chip budding still be viable? We wont have our first freeze for at least another month. Lows not below 55 for close to a month.
Quick question. Today while unwrapping a chip bud I somehow managed to break the actual bud off. The chip was healed in perfectly and everything looked great, but I broke the bud. I assume that is the end of it, but I thought I’d ask. Any possibility that chip will grow a new bud next spring or is it now doomed to just be part of the bark?
thanks
Ther are tiny latent buds there " under / on each side " of that bud you broke.you may not see them but they are " down there"
With luck,you can force them out in the spring.
that is great news. You’ve really been helpful to me lately- thanks!
I’m really excited by the results of my very first chip budding attempt. Here are photos of the first 2 that I ever did, which were done about a month ago and uncovered a few days ago.
Now, clearly my knife work has a lot to be desired! The edges are uneven and rough cut, but I think they have healed in and will hopefully grow out this spring. At least that is my uninformed opinion- those of you who have done a lot of this may say they look doomed?
These are both Saijo persimmon buds put onto American Persimmon rootstocks.
Last year I chip budded some persimmon .
Most took well, but persimmons send out a lot of sprouts that need rubbed off.
Often they would come out in the same area where I budded them ( under the parafilm )
I was, at times difficult , time consuming to determine which bud was what.
So this year I am making a paint line on the stock ,letting it dry and putting my bud In the middle of that line.
The paint mark is above and below the parafilm ,so I can at least see where it it supposed to be while it is still wrapped up.
When unrapped "the " bud is not white, so hopefully this will make things easyer ?
That should work. I suppose that alternatively you could put a dab on the chip, too, but six of one and half dozen of the other.
I do like the facility of chipping!
Yes, I thought of painting my bud stick. A different color .
And I may, …still a little scared of paint damage.
I use doc farwells partly for that reason… my scions are all painted yellow. This summer I found I had missed a stock growing below my Pixie Crunch graft but fortunately the yellow was still there five years after I did the graft and I could see the stock growth since it was not yellow.
Good Afternoon,
I attempted chip budding on a few failed grafts. I believe I have 1 that took, which I’m
Very proud of. Can somebody help me out, what do I do next?
Is the chip bud that took the one of the left that looks like a dead twig?
Wow now that I see it in a picture form that had to been the cop bud and not the new growth. Wow that really sucks for me lol
I think I don’t have a clear idea of what all is happening in that photo! Any way to help me out here?
