You said it very well! Every year grafts fail there is a reason why. Sometimes it is incompatibility. Graft or tree doesn’t always have adequate moisture. Temperatures can swing wildly causing graft failures if the scions dry out before the graft takes. Oil from the graft can seap into the graft union preventing callusing etc. I’m very thankful for the difficult callery pears i grafted years ago. Failure taught me many more lessons than success. Have grafted things in ways that will hopefully benefit people for many years to come. As others like those who post on this thread put themselves out there and try something new we will learn from it. Every time we get better at what we do. @haldog is in zone 7b and had no problem with late season grafting. Experts will tell us that type of grafting can only be done in early spring. A years growth on a fruit tree is going to put us in fruits from a tree an entire year earlier!
It does not seem like it but this old thread was over 5 years ago. Will fall-budded buds swell at the same time as the tree budded to? . @fruitnut put up this thread to help people with late season grafting
T-budding tutorial . There are many inspiring posts in that thread!
“Mine grew into a tree now. @fruitnut did a great tutorial T-budding tutorial - #41 by BobVance - Guides - Growing Fruit Which I think will answer about anything you want to know about tbud grafting. That’s where I learned and I tried it a couple of times with fantastic results. I did this tbud graft in July of 2016. Here is a photo overview. Pictures for some reason always get shuffled out of order but these photos give you the process start to finish and it’s now been nearly 2 years ago since I initially grafted.
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Those tbuds are now 30 foot tall trees! @JesusisLordandChrist on this thread The price of fruit trees is too expensive - #504 by Shibumi mentioned that people literally cannot afford a fruit tree now. That is very true , many families are spending more on 1 fruit tree than i spent on 30 fruit trees. If only the ultra wealthy have fruit trees and the people who need them most cannot afford them then we have reverted to the old system of peasants and royalty.