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  • From: Jwlehman@aol.com
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] cherry budwood question
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:02:40 EDT

In a message dated 6/27/2005 10:50:24 AM US Eastern Standard Time, markl@nytec.com writes:


In the past I have been unsuccessful doing whip-and-tongue grafts of
cherry scionwood in the spring.  This year I was thinking of trying
budding.  When is it time to cut cherry budwood, and when is it time to
bud?  Should I have cut dormant cherry scionwood for budding in the
summer?

-Mark Lee, Seattle zone 8a


Hello Mark,

I don't have extensive experience grafting sweet cherry but have done a few last and this spring.

Based on this experience my answer is yes, use scion wood collected while dormant. But store the scion wood in a very cold refrigerator. As near to freezing as possible. Prunus begins bud break early spring and likewise if the storage temp is around 45 they think spring is arrived and bud swell and elongation begins. Once this happens the success rate drops drastically. Its stored energy is used up, none left for callousing. I haven't counted but believe my success rate this year is about 70 percent using dormant wood stored at about 34 F (jugs of water used as a buffer to reduce cycling were partially frozen) then grafted in May.

I don't believe it would work well for fall budding. You would want current summers growth budwood.

If anyone wants an exact number I'll count and provide.

Jerry, zone 5b.  



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