Grafting non dormant wood

[danchappell]

I posted my experience about this topic some years ago. The buds didn’t push until the following spring and the damage to the scions turned out to be from earwigs not snails & slugs.

2017 Grafting Thread

In late summer probably August or September I was trimming one of my Mirabelle plums and decided to experiment with some grafting. I removed the leaves from the actively growing Mirabelle wood and grafted the scions to some suckers of a wild plum tree that I had cut down in spring. A couple were cleft grafts and a couple were saddle grafts with a grafting tool. Over the fall and winter the scions did not grow but they also did not appear to be dead. It seems that some of the grafts had healed …