Today we grafted 4 Wang Bo Goumi and 2 Gigantea Goumi on Autumn Olive rootstocks.
We dug up the Autumn Olive rootstocks last April potted them an let grow all last summer.
We did cleft grafts wrapped in parafilm then splicing tape over the parafilm. I wrapped the scion with only parafilm.
Im disabled with no finger function so my mom does all the grafting I just talk her through how to do it.
I’m going to keep this thread updated with their progress.
The Wang Bo scions are from nuttrees.net
Wang Bo is supposed to be larger than Carmine an almost as big as Gigantea
The Gigantea scion is from a private collector and I can’t disclose their information.
Gigantea is supposed to be the largest Goumi variety
@lmvian I can’t wait to see how they do!
The Wang Bo scions are from Cliff at nuttrees.net
Wang Bo is supposed to be larger than Carmine an almost as big as Gigantea
The Gigantea scion is from a private collector but I can’t disclose their information.
Gigantea is supposed to be the largest Goumi variety
I’ll be really interested in following your results. I think you might be one of the few people in the US to grow Gigantea. I also haven’t seen anyone on the forum fruit Wang Bo yet so I will be interested in the results for both varieties. I also think it will be really interesting to learn how the two compare because there was some speculation that they might be similar.
@Cgardener@EJh i really hope the Gigantea takes. I only had one very skinny scion enough for 2 grafts. Ill definitely keep this thread updated regularly. Im really interested in the sizes. I have Carmine in the ground. Cliff England at nuttrees.net has recently aquired Gigantea but he said its a young graft an will be a few years before he has scions available
Hi what grafting method did you use? I have some wood I want to try adding to my mature goumi bushes as I didn’t have a new potted plant to work with. They can air root after they’re grafted, right?
Does anyone know what will be the difference in the resulting plant in grafting on autumn olive or grafting to a seedling of the same type? Autumn Olive is quite a bit larger, so will E. multiflora on autumn olive also result in larger plants?
This may have been me. I don’t have any empirical data yet, but it’s something I believe I’ve been observing. Either way, this season I’ll have Daiougoumi fruits from two plants—one growing on its own roots and the other grafted onto AO rootstock. I’m curious to see whether the rootstock has any influence on the quality of the fruit.
maybe next year I’ll try Wang bo, depending on how big my carmine gets this year.
