I have grafted some 40 trees so far and I used up all the rootstocks I had. I have over 50 scionwood left over, anyone have a suggestion what I can use these cherry scions for?
I am in EWR area where are you? I have a few root stocks and nothing to graft.
-give away
-save them in dubbel plastic bag in the bottom of your fridge, as backup to regraft if another graft fails.
-use them to chip bud below the graft on the rootstock as backup if the above graft fails.
Alright I’ll wait to see how many do end up failing so I can regraft, I just realized the other scions may not be viable as I froze them pretty cold. Could I experiment trying to root them as cuttings?
You can experiment to your hearts content. Having a few extra on hand is a good idea, so you can regraft in an emergency. Or get some more rootstocks or give them away. All good ideas
if they are sweet cherries they don’t root easily in my experience.
Do you freeze them in the freezer? or just kept them outside/fridge?
I put them in a freezer with an INKBIRD temperature controller, so I let the temp where the prob was get down to 30F but the wood I have left was kept in the back where it probably was a lot colder. The wood is sour cherry.
it’s worth a shot. But below freezing is not ideal for graft wood. And most fruit tree’s don’t strike cuttings super easy. (that’s why stool beds are more popular than hardwood cuttings) so i would count on them taking a month or few months to root.
Is there another way I can propagate these scions if cuttings don’t work?
root grafting. Digging up a cherry root. and grafting that to the scion/cutting