Grafting thread 2021

[murky]

@murky

I grafted some plums in early April. Normally I do them later.

Some of them I did to St. Julian suckers that I transplanted this winter, without a lot of roots. A pluot and pluerry on one of them only just now started breaking bud after showing no signs of anything for 5+ weeks.

In retrospect, I bet if I’d grafted them 3 weeks later they would have leafed out at the same time and have born less risk of failing. The ones I tried to side graft into my peach trunk failed. Maybe they’d have had a better chance if I’d waited longer.

This Brooks graft into the trunk of my tall gage plum was also done about 5 weeks ago. Looks like a take - but probably done too soon. At least the bark was clearly slipping when I did it.

Follow up, looks like this plum made it to this season:

[clarkinks]

Looking good @murky to bad about the one. How do they look now?

[Trav]

Recommendations? I recommend being seen as crazy. All the best people are!

So how did your, probably super dwarf, winter banana on ohf 333 project go?

[Trav]

Plant patents legally don’t apply to personal use as far as I understand the laws, but I understand not wanting to get yourself under any additional scrutiny, because there are some cases where things are illegally enforced which you probably know if you haven’t been living under a rock your whole life.

So let your conscience be clean food is a right and so is nature, but this probably doesn’t apply to GMO’s…because that’s not food or nature.