My Ruby persimmon that was planted last fall had a graft failure about a month later. I wrapped the whole scion in grafting tape and put in the fridge and forgot about it. I don’t have a persimmon to graft to. Six months later I cut the scion in half, removed the bottom couple of inches of tape, dipped in clonex and stuck both in good potting soil. Surprisingly (to me) both pieces are pushing out leaf buds. I haven’t checked to see if there are roots yet.
So if they do root and survive what do I do now? Just grow as is? Find root stock and try to graft?
I didn’t expect them to be viable at all so didn’t have a long term plan plus I’m new at this in general.
Thank you.
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Well…?
To start with don’t get your hopes up to high…
Persimmons are not known to root from cuttings ,Easily …!
But if they do ? No need to graft, just grow as is. And tell us!
But . You say you had a ., graft failure . So don’t you have a root ? Somewhere ? Could graft back to it.? ( best shot ?)
Even if it’s a root , say mowed off at ground level.
The cuttings likely will not root. But have only lost a stick in the mud, by trying.
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Thanks for your input. The rest of the original persimmon did not winter over unfortunately. I’ll let the cuttings go and see what happens and maybe find rootstock in the meantime.
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