They are officially open for 2024 Bench Graft orders.
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So…are there multiple comments on these folks posted anyplace?
But I don’t need any benchgrafts.
I don’t know anything about them other than their website. Just posting them as I found their list impressive which they admit is made from various sources they have access to.
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I had a negative experience with them last year. Was new to grafting and figured I should get some bench grafts as back up; ordered 18 euro pear bench grafts on OHxF87 and he said he could do them; only did 15 and 8 grafts never took and even one rootstock never even budded out. It is not that the grafts budded out then failed - they never even budded out at all. Ridiculous. He was hard to get a hold of, then sent a check for the 3 he told me he could do but didn’t, and then that check bounced…
I cannot recommend them. Complete waste of time, money, and energy.
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guess not! always amazes me when people sell fresh unestablished grafts. The likelihood of them doing well just seems inordinately low & Ive seen people charge premium prices for what’s effectively a potted up wholesale rootstock with a quick whip graft.
Many moons ago, I planted a couple of bench grafts from:
I had no duds.
At the time, I had little inclination to do my own grafting, and this was an expeditious and economical way of obtaining the scion varieties I wanted.
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Keep in mind benchgrafts are just that. The benefit to wagon wheel is they may offer something impossible to find elsewhere. One row of trees i grafted last year i had nearly 100% failures. It was sprinkling that day which caused the issue. Nearly all other grafts grew well. Still grafts are not established trees. Most of us figure on a 90% or higher overall success rate. Many times we get 100% of grafts to take but lose them in wind storms, to birds, fireblight, etc. . If i tried to plant out bench grafts directly i would lose 100% of them. New trees should be allowed to grow a year or two at least here before grafting them.
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I hate transplanting, and even more growing in pots. I much prefer to establish the rootstock and then graft in the field. But when I have bench grafted, I’ve usually planted out directly with mixed results.
I started my home orchard hobby in a small suburban lot and more than a decade on, am still adjusting to being out in the woods.
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You mean to say the rain got on the cut faces of scions and stock causing failure?
I had a terrible experience with them years ago. Pretty shady place.
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Ditto - it was horrible