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  • From: Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] plums/grafting
  • Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 14:26:58 -0500

Del:
Mystifying, because P.Americana accepts grafts quite easily.
I usually don't get around to grafting plum until March, even April.
The fastest take I ever had of any graft was a simple splice graft onto the
root of a P.
Americana: leafout in 2 days. The last 10 years, its been almost always an
inverted saddle
graft tied with a rubber band. Various sealers used included white latex
paint, Doc Farwell's,
poly tape, black water based asphalt and peat moss. All worked. In the
early 80's I bench
grafted, in the 90's it was always onto root suckers that occur as
volunteers. Graft about a
foot off the ground. I did encounter problems grafting much higher than two
or three feet. I
never had any luck with side branches, it always was onto the main trunk so
the scion now became
the central leader.
Charlie Paradise
Massachusetts/zone 5

del stubbs wrote:

> Charlie, your plum thicket makes my mouth water! My plum grafting luck on
> to p. americana has been nearly a zero. For 4 years I have been trying both
> spring W&T grafting of dormant scions ( both bench and in the field) , and
> late august bud grafting.
> So far I have only one that has grafted successfully...bud graft of
> Alderman on p. americana. I have been working with pembina, alderman,
> and waneta.
> On wild chokecherrry I have had fair succss experimenting with W&T graft of
> p. maritima, looks like this week I'll get the first blooms of that graft.
> On apples - I just bench grafted 47 M26's to about 35 varieties for a
> friend's first orchard, and all but two are good, so my technique doesn't
> seem too bad, Any advice? Thanks, Del
> Del Stubbs ag zone2/3





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