There’s a guy that makes YouTube videos,The Weird (Fruit) Explorer.Maybe he can provide some contact info.People send him things to try.
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Is there a way to graft stone to pome fruit, or the other way around, with interstems? I’m fine with it being stupid and very impractical.
I don’t think grafts are compatible outside of their scientific family. Maybe cousins might but i think if the species is too far off, there’s probably 0 chance.
I could be wrong though so if i am, someone correct me
Are branches like these still okay to use/cut as scions to graft and stuff?
Also is this too big for a scion?
Most of those buds look like flower buds. And thus are a little harder to graft with. But often still work. They seem to be waking up though. That also lowers your chances.
I would say it’s not impossible to graft with. But definitely harder than leaf buds of a nice dormant stick.
Thicker older wood can have a thinner cambium layer and thus has slightly lower takes. However if often taken chip buds off almost thumb thickness wood and they often did fine.
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mid-Missouri zone 6b. Keiffer and Bartlett pears should both grow well for you. Keiffer pears are more resistent to fire blight. This past year, our Keiffer pears averaged 0.6 pounds each. Beautiful pears.
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I’m sorry if this has been answered already, but what is the difference of the message button and chat button on one’s profile? When I PM someone, do I use chat or message button?
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Basically just the layout of the messaging.
Can you use slow release fertilizer on freshly seed sprouted plants?
Depends on the seedling, depends on the fertilizer. Some plants can take it, others cant. Usually good to wait a little bit before using strong fertilizers, but if its something weaker like a 2-1-1 or similar it ain’t gonna hurt it.
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Anyone ever taste wild nightshade (I know they are poisonous unless they are ripe)? I have 3 plants that have just popped up in the yard. They are pretty ornamentals regardless.
It’s a random staple in my culture? 
i don’t know how they prepare it though but I’m still alive. We eat the entire plant though, not the berries. The berries get picked off and it gets turned into a soup of sorts
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The ‘All The Fruit’ YT channel guy has shown a bunch of the black fruited variety and some yellow/orange ones. Looked interesting/sounded tasty, but I’ve only seen a not-great native golden berry type fruit and some ludicrously poisonous horse/hog/something-nicknamed one that’s covered in wicked thorns growing locally.
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Carolina Horsenettle, nasty stuff.
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This isn’t a question. But there is no ‘Looking for Sympathy’ category . . . so I’ll plop my post here. !
'Couldn’t have happened at a worse time . . . I tripped and broke my left foot.
I had just put my first spray on my fruit trees and ready to do the second, when the rubber sole of my Sketchers (oh-so-comfy) shoes ‘caught’ on my wooden floor and BOOM - down I went. NOTE: rubber soles and wood floors are not a good combo. I’ve had other people say they’ve experienced the exact same thing!
But . . . (as you guys probably have noticed) being the stubborn gal that I am . . . I had to figure out a way to be able to hobble out to the trees to at least do follow up spraying AND the little bit of grafting I had planned to do!
“Where there is a will . . . there’s a way.”
A contractor clean up bag and some masking tape later . . .
TAAA DAAAAH ! A solution to keeping my ‘airboot’ clean while I continue to hobble!
I was kidding about the ‘Sympathy’. No need.
I only have 7 more weeks to go - in this contraption. And although it looks like ‘Star Wars’ apparel, it really does support the injured foot soooo well.
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There is also no ‘Giving Sympathy’ icon, just the universal 
. So please interpret mine as ‘sorry to hear,’ not ‘like.’
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Thank you, Lodidian. I’ll take that
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If I’m just stacking 3 blocks for a makeshift raised garden bed, do i really need masonry glue
Been reading the safety data sheets for all ingredients and they all look pretty bad when you get down to it. Especially what it causes in animals exposed to the fumes and such…
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Once,I stacked cherry logs about three high and drilled holes through the ends.Then pounded pieces of rebar to secure them,to the ground.
A masonry bit could be used with yours,depending on the material.
dang girl! A+ for effort! great job making lemonade out of lemons. 
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