Awesome thanks for the info. Maybe next week if it warms up I’ll go uncover them and cut from the base. If there’s any I think I could graft right away I’ll try, if not should I put in the ground and grow them out until it’s summer to chip bud?
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I’m hoping you have built up some soil above ground to promote root growth. That way you can get more suckers from the same location in years to come, by cutting a rooted sucker and not the level stem.
Yes, I have done greenwood chip bud in late summer and dormant bud grafts (from plum) in spring once the stone fruit stock had leaves filling out. It’s a wondrous activity. sometimes the newly planted whip seems to not grow much above ground even by late July. In some cases, most energy has gone into establishing roots. If that seems a likely scenario to you in such a case, there is no harm in waiting to graft onto it the following spring. I begin to think roots may continue to establish when the upper part is dormant.
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