From this:
To this!
details… rubber bands and parafilm starting to disintegrate without removing them.
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The only maintenance I have needed is to remove the rootstock sprouts below the grafts! If you do this faithfully, you’ll have a lot higher chances of take of your grafts.
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Joe, How deep is your scion insertion into the bark?. Mine average is around 1.25 inches.
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I usually do 2" minimum and will only do less than that if the scionwood is shorter.
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Nice job! Do you know of a decent guide on citrus grafting? I’ve only grafted a plum tree, and it never made it.
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here’s my pictorial tutorial, be sure to read the details in the caption of each picture.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154011161611804.1073742033.762176803&type=1&l=fe93335158
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Nice work Joe!
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Joe it is save to call you " The Godfather of Grafting", learn from you years back.
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Thanks @aap Bob! I don’t deserve the credit, many other people are far better than me at grafting. I don’t have a plant surgeon’s hand and lousy with the knife but I try to work around my limitations.
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You could have fooled me Joe, i know better.
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Joe, i’m not much into multi variety tree’s but i do have a nice assortment of citrus tree’s all grafted.
I do have a seedling mango tree that i have growing for about 3 years now. I am able to keep this tree alive and growing good. This early spring got brave and got sionwood from different sources, Florida and grafted 3 varieties on this tree, a total of 7 grafts, got 5 left, one is growing pretty strong and the others showing live. I’ll know in another week.
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Wow! You’re getting very good at it!
Man, citrus is the one fruit that I have no success in grafting.
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My citrus newly grafts, spring 2017 and spring 2018 expansion over 20 growing in Rootmaker containers. All looking good. Don’t know where to put them for the coming winter, sh…!!
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Try and try! My first few citrus grafts didn’t take and I thought citruses are the hardest to graft. Timing is truly the biggest factor. Use appropriate style with the season.
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