@Fusion_power - are you talking/describing this type of side-veneer budgraft, promoted by Dr. Hongwen Huang, for chestnuts, when he was at Auburn?
Granted, for pecans/hickories/walnuts, there are no phloem fiber bundles to avoid, as is the case for chestnuts.
Yes Lucky, same graft. I had not seen it in the chestnut literature. It was also used and recommended for pecan. The best I recall, it is a very common graft technique in China used on multiple species, especially those that are hard to graft.
Cathy Browne, one of Dr. Goff’s assistants, had recommended it to me years ago, but I’ve never tried it. Might be time to give it a shot.
It has several advantages such as using only 1 bud which can be huge when limited scions are available. It has both top and bottom maximum cambium contact which promotes rapid healing, and it leaves the top of the tree in place so it can help with the healing process. The only negative I’ve found is the need to remove the top of the tree a few days to a few weeks after making the graft. This is important for pecan as I found out when I made a few long bud grafts and did not remove the top. The grafts failed.
I saw Cathy Browne at the Alabama Pecan Growers meeting last September. She is happily retired but still active with pecan growing as the secretary of APGA.
