Plum Scion onto Peach Tree

I grafted some plum scions onto a peach tree in Fall of last year. In less than a year the scion turned into a tree. It’s from my neighbor. He does not know what type of plum. It flowers and fruited, but it dropped before he can eat it. Then again, he never water the tree and we typically have a month worth of over 100 degree. It’s a very mature tree.

Grafted using cleft method.The scions was half size of the host branch. In less than a year, it’s now bigger than the host branch. It’s very greedy for water and nutrient. It make sense because the neighbor neglect it. The scion produces 2 main trunks and each trunks is 7 feet tall and 5/8 size or greater in diameter. There are multiple side branches. I have to take out the old parafilm and re-wrap the new one because it grow too big and I still need to support it during that time. I don’t see anything like this.

The tree have 3 plum graft and 2 nectarine graft. All grafted at the same time.





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Nice when you get such an encouraging response! But the extent to which the scion has overgrown the rootstock would worry me- the simple physics is that the scion will likely eventually break off. (And parafilm won’t help, as it’s just not very strong). I’d consider pruning the new grow back and limiting the new growth that way.

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In Spring, one of the graft got ripped apart because of the wind. We do get 20 to 30 MPH wind at that time. Then, I reinforce it with a new parafilm. The parafilm that is use for mending broken or fracture branch and not the premium parafilm. I string the branches too to keep it from swaying. This month, I take the parafilm off. I will let it do its thing. I don’t even know if the fruit is good. If it ever produce the ripe fruits, I will give some to the neighbor. Image he will be surprise.

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