Looks like ‘she’ is getting ready to sit under the dryer at a beauty shop.
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That statement dates you…and me!!!
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That’s a good thing. Those born in the last 40 years will not have it so good.
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Truer words never spoken. And it is not their fault either
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I don’t spring graft, but i do summer chip budding. Last summer only placed a few (just moving a few things around). Always fun to see some life come out of those things that just sit dormant for 8+ months
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I’ve grafted my quince (BA29) rootstocks today (14 in total) which I bought 2 years ago. I had them ordered by mail and when I’d received them they were too thin to graft anything on them. So I decided to just plant them tight to see if they will “thicken up”))))
And here is the result after grafting:
They’ve even exceeded my expectations.
If they take, I’ll relocate them to my orchard in autumn. The varieties of pear grafted are: Director Alphand, Leven, Decolour, Yay Guren and Winterforelle.
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Looks like supper …those dandelion leaves. I had some yesterday.
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Yes you are spot on, I have dandelion grow all over the place. It is even used in medical purposes against cancer.
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nice grafts!
Are the VA-29 or BA-29? i don’t know the VA-29 do you have more info on it?
Also what did you do with the prunings? might be worth trying to make cuttings. Especially since they exceeded your expectations, can’t hurt to have more 
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Quick and dirty bark graft on Cherry. Thanks @IL847 for the scions. Didn’t feel like digging out the putty, electrical tape, and sealant. So I used grafting rubbers and buddy tape like on the whip and tongues I’d been doing.
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Thanx! Sorry about misspelling, it is BA 29.
I threw the prunings away. I have another 100 coming this fall. Next time I will plant them in pots for much easier grafting.
I hate the spring time waiting for weather to warm knowing that my cuttings in the fridge are aging and drying day by day, week by week…
And we’re expecting 4-8 inches of snow this Tuesday…
I doubt I’ll be grafting much before May 1st this year at this rate…
Scott
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No reason unless you don’t want to graft any more varieties. I think it’s a great idea for everybody to have a wild patch of Prunus americana or something else they can graft when they need to.
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Chill,
I recommend wrapping your scionwood as soon as you receive it in stretched parafilm, head to toes.
Once it all wrapped, you can put it in a ziplock plastic bag without any damp paper towel. My wrapped scionwood stays fresh for months.
I do have a little fridge for scionwood only. No fruit or veggies in that fridge.
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I’ve received wrapped in parafilm (anyways) that lasted 6-months from people in California @Stan . me and Tippy learned a lot from him including that he can write in 1-2 mm letters that are easy to see.
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I thought the same thing! ‘Beauty shop’??? Oh well. It is what it is.
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File this under “things I don’t expect to work.” Asian pear on flowering quince (Chaenomeles). Just wanted to try. The three year old is confident it will work.
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Top worked two apple trees today. It was my first time top working, so I was quite nervous. I hope some of them take…Most were bark grafts. I bound them with raffia and covered them with wax. Since this trees stand in a hayfield I would rather not work with rubber bands that could get into the fodder.
For marking the grafts, I cut up a beercan and a mayo tube. The tube worked better. They golden ones are the mayo.
Before grafting, I put the scions in water so they could rehydrate, but mostly I thought they looked really well.
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Is that on as much of a slope as it looks?
I’ve just begun planting on steeper slope this spring because I’m running out of space, and I’ve mostly tamed the stumps and blackberries in the area I planted. I’m hopeful that I’ll still be able to keep it mowed between.
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Looks good! Keep us posted this summer so we can see the progression. Hope you get lots of takes! I recently cut up soda cans for temporary tags too. Easy to cut, easy to write on. The aluminum is very thin so I plan to use something thicker in the future. For now they work fine and they were free of course!
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