Top work apricot tree

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No bark graft in the sumner. You can try budding in late summer.

Search for T-budding or chip budding on this forum on how to do. Here is one.

T-budding tutorial

very informative thread. Reviving this to add my experience. I am grafting citrus now and tried both with and without the wood in the bud. Removing the wood for the latter is very hard and finicky with the thin budwoods from CCPP. Lets see how many will take. Also, it is soooo much more easier to do the inverse T than the regular T on the rootstock. The starting point of the bud is the sharpest as I tend to start the cut from there. With inverted T, its easier to poke the separated bark with th…