Combination bark grafting and t-budding. I removed the lowest bud from the scionwood and then bark grafted the remaining scionwood. No buds were wasted in the process!
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Good idea. Since I haven’t had much luck grafting peaches I’ll try that to increase my odds.
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i would do a combo chip budding and bark grafting on peach. I have better growth with chip budding on peaches than T-budding.
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So please clarify Joe or others, I see you are zone 9 but
I’m in zone 6A and would like to ask:
Come springtime when I do my regular whip or cleft grafting when the rootstalk are starting to grow, can I take some of the buds off of the Scion and attempt at the same time with those buds to T bud or chip bud on apples pears plums
Thanks
Yes you can. For T-budding the bark needs to be slipping. The more active a tree is growing the easier the bark peels of (is slipping). So it might be difficult to do T-budding in spring. You might have to wait a little longer or you do chip budding. The bark doesn’t need to slip for chip budding.
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I think chipping is the easiest, quickest way to graft. The only drawback, as I see it, is that you often get a “perched on top” look to the finished product.
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Curious…So is it conceivable in one season to graft your scion to a rootstock early spring then later that same season take a bud of the same now growing Scion and put it back on to the rootstock somewhere else by;
1.chip bud
2 t bud
Keeping in mind 6b zone
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Yes. I have done that several times in spring. Also in the fall, T-budding of peach works for me.
I remember doing it but with a different purpose. When I see that my W&T grafted scion earlier in the season is longer than needed, later in the season as the stock are pushing out leaves, I nip off the long scion to the correct length, and then use the cut portion to graft to another rootstock, this time using bark grafting. I kind of used the extra long scion grafted earlier in the season as my temporary storage.
A little break in the rain. Sprayed H2O2 followed by spraying of vinegar and tea tree oil. Then grafted like crazy. I replaced the branches of Valencia oranges with other blood oranges that I haven’t tried yet. And one photo shows the first fruits of Bream Tarocco Blood Orange grafted to the same tree. It isn’t ready yet but getting excited here!
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Joe how do you graft the bud graft when you don’t have a leaf stem to hold on to? how do you make a bud or T graft that way with scion wood taken during the dormant season?
I ordered a scionwood with at least 3 buds on it, about 3-5” long. I hold one end of the scionwood while I take off the bud from the other end. I then cut a T on the stock and insert the bud into it and wrap. The remaining stick, I whittle away one side and bark graft it to the stock.
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I never needed a leaf petiole to hold the bud. I just hold the bud gently as I could with two fingers. I use big bud cuts that include the wood. Depending upon the thickness of the stock bark, the thicker the destination bark, the deeper I cut the bud into the wood to remove it so that when I insert it on the stock, it is not swallowed by the bark.