Pencil thickness seems to be 1.50-2x the size of pencil to alot of people, so I ask for 50-75% pencil thickness to make sure its actually pencil thickness haha. and if its actually a true 50-75% size, then that works out too. But yeh, I still get alot of thicker scionwood (when I request smaller sized scionwood knowing the rootstocks are not going to be huge).
The best sized scions always come from trades here :).
I also saw someone at Persimmon World FB Group today said you can graft Persimmon at the crown or even below crown level. I wonder if thats a viable option. Anyone try it with Persimmon (or anything else?)? Mine are def are thicker at the crown. I’ll take some measurements and post ‘thickness’ at ground and 6-8" off the ground maybe later today.
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I have done that, with mixed results. I think the failures were as much my fault as anything. I also find that the bit of main taproot above the first feeder roots will be just fine converting over to “trunk” mode if planted a bit high.
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if that was reference to the 50 1-2ft pawpaw rootstock I got from Cold Stream Farms (where they taproot was cut hard in the pics a bit above the message referenced above)… Yes they survived and mostly had 80% success grafting ratio (maybe 3-4 died to the ground but rest seemed good after 2.5months). Not as strong growing as the grafts i did on pawpaw rootstock with alot more feeder roots but still good for the price I think.
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