Thank you. Yo ur pics of grafts protected by aluminum foil inspired me. We had 90+F for three days. I used foil to protect them.
Forgot to protect other grafts. My Arctic Fantasy was fried. So sad.
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I’ve had 100% succes with grafting to purchased (apple) rootstocks before budding out, waiting until bud swell is probably good, but most of these indications are indications if the tree likes the weather yet, indoors you can graft earlier, and while they’re still dormant too.
I’ve only grafted one persimmon, but it worked, I had planted a persimmon seedling and then got an incredible American persimmon Scion from a good friend.
I mostly talk about this great because it’s the only time that my scion was significantly wider than my rootstock, double the diameter, but it worked just fine and survived. Also that seedling was basically planted in a woodchuck den! I thought long and hard about that spot and it was the only good for for a tall tree, and started digging in the wonderful soil with a pick axe and crobar and broken through into what must have been a woodchuck den, instead of choosing a new place I threw some rotting roadkill in the bottom of the hole, then just enough dirt to be able to breathe and then a massive layer of thorny hillside hawthorn Branches all around the hole lining all the walls, then planted inside that. I’m pretty sure that will do it for the woodchucks, hopefully it survived the deer too.
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