Cleft graft questions

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Both grafts have their place. A cleft heals in half the time usually of a rind aka bark graft. Cleft grafts are stronger in my opinion in many cases for the first 2 years.

Wondering what your grafts will look like in a couple of years?

This pear tree is already producing fruit and has mostly healed from the cleft grafts I did two years ago. In 3-5 years all you see of a rind or cleft graft is roughness in bark where the scion union was made with the rootstock. In my experience rind grafts take 1-3 years longer to heal than cleft grafts. This is a wild callery rootstock. [image][image][image][image][image][image][image] These are rind grafts on a large tree after 5 years [image]