So I went out today and took a look at my top graft plum that I cut down and grafted a couple of weeks ago with Sierra, Beauty, Broken Heart, and Jordan (a very rare Burbank plum). I didn’t want to post pictures until they were all budding out. And…the Broken Heart (lower left) is bulging, but not really budding yet. I know it’s not really pretty, but I did better later (see below). The Beauty is most vigorous at the moment, but we’ll see how that goes.
Here are my first 2 cleft grafts. I grafted Burbank and Sierra onto Lovell rootstock. The Sierra was more shy, but you can see it’s just starting to bud. My question is when should I transplant these to bigger pots?
Here’s my friend’s Chinese apricot tree that I went a little wild on. Apricots are fussy, so I hedged my bet and grafted over some hybrids to give it “hybrid vigor”. Included in this batch is Royal apricot, Hesse plumcot, Cot-n-Candy aprium, Katy apricot, Shah Kar Pareh plumcot, Tomcot apricot, Apex plumcot, and Flavor Delight aprium. I got the scions shorter for this one, too, so the tree doesn’t have to work so hard to bud everything out. I figure that not all of these will take, but if they do, it will be one helluva tree.
And finally, here’s my Passe Crassane pear. Last year it grew a very disappointing amount and honestly, it was a pretty disappointing looking little tree when I got it from Arboreum. But I can tell things are going to be different this year, it since it already has more growth than it did for all of last year.
