Ichi Ki Kei Jiro Question

[TNHunter]

The scion wood is collected late winter when the wood is very dormant.

It can then be packaged properly and stored in the fridge crisper drawer. It will keep well there for months and will remain dormant.

Then in the spring when your apple rootstock is ready (waking up, budding, shoots, small leaves, sap flowing, bark slipping).

Graft your dormant scion wood onto the rootstock that has come out of dormancy… and it will cause the scionwood to wake up, grow, the graft union heals, etc.

That is how it works.

[Well_Well_Well]

OK but bud grafting is different, right?
Can a bud graft be donated from a non-dormant donor, and grafted on to a non-dormant recipient?

[mamuang]

T-budding tutorial

I’m new to T budding figs. They seem easy so far and the wood is big enough to show well in pictures. Too close on some so not focused but still visible I think. First a couple of key points. Don’t even try if the bark isn’t slipping well on the rootstock. If not slipping it’s hard or impossible to insert the bud cleanly under both flaps of the T. Not cleanly under and success falls thru the floor. Get bark slipping by watering at least a week ahead of budding. Also cut back the rootstock in w…