I don’t even have a clue what you’d call this graft I came up with earlier this year, but it has grown a lower scaffold on a quite old red heart plum tree.
Read my post here on the spring grafting thread:
The single bud graft has actually sprung 2 new growths that are now over a foot long. I’m hoping to finally have a more balanced tree after deer destroying half the limbs on this open center plum tree.
So I just took a look at this tree and it has gone from this:
To growth over a foot long now:
Sorry for the quality of the pic. It was hard to get a shot because I have 2 layers of wire around it to keep the deer at bay.
I will remove the second more upright growth soon, but I wanted to make sure at least one of them survived the caterpilers and other pests that feed on new growth.