@spawnsfm
Nice looking grafting! A couple of minor things i do sometimes is i use less grafting wood on my clefts if i need to conserve. In those cases i only leave 1 bud per graft so my wood goes further. The other minor thing i do if there are problems getting back to what i grafted right away that year is leave my top bud facing out on short grafts so that when it forms a branch its facing out instead of in. When i go back and prune later its easier if the cleft grafts are not crossing. Neither thing matters really because one cleft gets cut off anyway in most cases so bud direction matters very little and the scion size does not matter to much. One of the biggest problems i face in my area is wind and storms so longer peices catch more wind until they heal. Birds use my grafts for perches at times also if my graft is tall. We graft very similar Top working Pears weather permitting. Many times im doing lots of grafts so its difficult to do everything perfect because it must be done fast.
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