Grafting thread 2021

franc1969 · April 12, 2021, 5:46am

Grafts I did two weeks ago have leaves pushing! and several buds pushing on my to-be-franken-tree. Grafts took on at least the most vigorous varieties, now to see if the trees grow well. I am working on building extra beds this week, and getting them filled and nets.
When do I get these into the nursery beds? How long do I wait with them inside? What definitely is pushing are the roots/scions. What is a bit behind, but seem to have taken are the interstems. I will have extra graft material on those(rubbers/buddy tape), do I need to remove below-ground materials?

IL847 · April 12, 2021, 3:27pm

Well, I checked my records. I did my pears grafting on March 7 when we had seasonal warm 50 to mid 60 weather for several days. Checking these grafts a little over a month late, all grafts are take. (All were cleft graft if I don’t specify). On March 22, we had temperatures in upper 60s for few days, I grafted plum/pluot. 3 weeks late , they all show certain degrees of growing except a chip budding and one my experimental no name grafting method. On April 3, 4, I grafted peaches. We had a week of most 70s, few days mid to upper 60s temperature. Most of peach grafts show sign of growing now. But peach grafts are still too soon to tell. I will wait for couple more of weeks to update

JinMA · April 12, 2021, 3:31pm

I think I’m just about done with grafting for this year. Maybe one or two more, we’ll see.

So far:

Ashmead’s Kernel
Blenheim Orange
Orleans Reinette
St. Edmund’s Pippin
Windham Russet
Beurre Clairgeau
Cabot of Vermont (pear)
Dana Hovey
Louise Bonne d’Avranches

All cleft grafts done with utility knife, parafilm, and electrical tape. Very basic and there were definitely things that I could have done more adroitly, but had pretty good results last year, so we’ll see how everything turns out.

ggrindle · April 12, 2021, 6:11pm

Grafts this morning. All persimmon. Thanks @k8tpayaso

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ggrindle · April 12, 2021, 6:15pm

ggrindle · April 12, 2021, 6:20pm

k8tpayaso · April 12, 2021, 6:26pm

You’ve been quite busy today… good job!

IL847 · April 12, 2021, 8:54pm

I grafted Blue Berry into cranberry and it is a take. Not sure the long term compatibility but will find it out.

NJpete · April 12, 2021, 9:08pm

Cool! Out of curiosity does generally put the “after” pics on the same thread. In August will we see how everyone’s grafts panned out?

NJpete · April 12, 2021, 9:21pm

This was the technique that I was trying to mimic. I did not think I was very successful. I re-watched the video and realized that I was not well positioning my knife-hand’s thumb behind the scion (as shown ~ minute 4). This might explain my scalloped-shaped cuts…

ggrindle · April 12, 2021, 9:30pm

So here is one that I did in early March. Waaaay too soon. Bark not slipping. And yet…

jcguarneri · April 12, 2021, 10:26pm

I only grafted my persimmons 4 days ago, but this chip is already trying to grow! Hopefully it’s got at least a bit of a connection…

Bsnyds · April 13, 2021, 2:26am

First attempt at grafting: Seckel (yellow), Ubileen (red), and Orcas (green) on to a red Bartlett. Used a V-shape grafting tool for the branches lower down and tried chip grafts higher up for practice of the Orcas and Ubileen as I felt most confident the Seckel graft will take. Crossing my fingers this pear is as easy going grafting as everyone seems to agree they are