Wanna go to restoring eden today? 
Oi, if only I had seen that earlier!
Kent east hill nursery has 10-15 gallon Oliver loquat but itâs expensive as hell at 200$
Uh, no!
I canât do $100 or more for a tree!
$60 is pretty much my max and only cause I got something for my husband.
I am gonna keep checking the seattle tree and hope I can nab some seeds from the ground or something!
Yeah, i wasnât going to either 
but itâs there if anyone wants to lol
Can others post your grafting successes too? I would be happy to see my scionwood reach so many.
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Good point about the name genders, I hadnât thought of it that way. But Edâs Delight isnât a male name.
Is ed short for Edwina?
These loquats are my only grafting success so far. I think itâs because i finally managed to slice my finger while trying to make a whip/tongue graft.
Internet said they have soft wood⌠it was not soft⌠and i miscalculated my strong handâŚ
I had very poor results with cleft grafting loquat. Only 2 of the 7 grafts were successful. I donât know what went wrong because I also cleft grafted 7 avocados at the same session, and 5 of those took.
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Iâve noticed that the middle of the scions were nearly rock hard to me. If your scions were hard too, maybe the middle poked out too much so the cambiums couldnât touch/was pushed by the middle hard part? Just a thought cause this happened to me but i caught it. It was so hard to cut through it for me. I had to do small slices and chip away at it
Jujube is hard, loquat as I recall, is much softer. I suppose its relative.
We,ve all been there. Now that youâve made a blood offering, the grafting gods will hereafter smile upon you.
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That is shocking to me, I havenât had a loquat graft fail yet. Not like Iâve made thousands of them, but out of a dozen or so grafts I have 100% takes. In various months ranging from late winter to early fall.
No clue. Maybe too hot? This was the hottest April in a long time, sunny and above 80 many days, and a couple close to 90. Inside the greenhouse was definitely above 100. Other than that the only possibility is the scions got old. Cleft grafting is fairly idiot proof.
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Yeah Iâd say not fresh scions. If the temps are above 80, I cover them. Not that thatâs the rule just kind of how I gauge things.
Iâve had plenty of loquat grafts fail. None were cleft in my latest batch. Clefts fail with about the same probability as others IME.
I just did 12 with 4 failures. 8 takes. You folks with 100% success rate, truly impressive!
The only thing I do is repeat.
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There is no need to use whip & tongue for any grafts. I have been grafting and teaching new people how to graft, only use cleft grafts for all my fruit trees. This includes loquats, mulberry, guava, longan, lychee, white sapote, citrus, over thousands of these grafts. Cleft is just as good if you know the proper technique. Iâm sure most of you never use a glove, start using one on the hand without the knife and you wonât get cut. All my students are taught this way, no one gets hurt. Also use a baseboard and 2"x4" block to cut the scions to have perfectly flat sides, that is the main trick, most people donât do this. I have been grafting for 30 years so have some experience in this.
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