Peach graft results

[BobVance]

@alan

Then Bob tells us he got great results grafting much earlier than I thought would be optimum and preceding much cooler weather than Scott has been suggesting for successful peach grafting the last couple of years.

I wouldn’t say “great results”,maybe “much, much better than last year”. The success rate was still in the 50-70%- I’ll take stock this weekend and report. But, that’s a lot better than grafting when it is too hot and getting no takes.

I think you did OK because of 2 reasons:
1.) There was a 3 week period of relatively cool temps for the trees to callus (and they were already actively growing when you grafted)
2.) You’re probably better at it than me, getting good contact, so you have more wiggle room.

I’m interested to hear from anyone who grafted close to the warm temps we got. @mamuang?

@alan

I couldn’t find the topic where we were recently discussing this so I decided just to start over.

I think it was in this thread:

Peach grafts

I’ve mentioned it before, but hesitated to bring it up again, as I didn’t want to whine about it I checked and the exact count was 0 in 109. It hurts a bit, but I suppose that is how you learn. It hurt enough that I would encourage you to go out and put a few grafts on tomorrow. That gives them a few days before the heat hits and 3 of the next 4 days are close to 60F (57, 51, 61, 61). I’m not sure if your forecast is the same as mine, but it is probably close given our proxi…

Alan, looking at the timing, there were 3 days in the 88-93 range from 5/17-5/19. Did you graft before/during this time, or right after? The 3 weeks after weren’t really that cold (yours could be a few degrees cooler, but I bet they were close):