North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi,

As long as the graft survives, and heals over, in time it will be as good as 
any graft.

Depending on the type of graft you did, and where you live, March is plenty 
early.

I just bark grafted 2 days ago.  The rootstocks were actively in growth, and 
my scions dormant from the fridge.

I also did some "benchgrafting during February, and they were left in cold 
storage till the weather warmed.  Now
they are just pushing buds on the scions outside.

Did a crazy thing too.  I had a Antavoka rootstock that had a "Y".  On one 
side of the "Y" I grafted a blue
flowered crabapple "Alexis", on the other side of the "Y" I grafted a 
red/purple blooming crabapple
"Baskatong".  As It grows out, I will swap and graft scions from side to side 
and have a very unusual tree.  It
will have various colored foliage and bloom on different areas.  A real 
mish-mash.

I have been wanting to try the same thing with various colored lilacs.


Later,
Tom

Later,
Tom

Lisa Almarode wrote:

> I did several apple grafts in early March that
> weren't very good.  I'd long given up on them but
> left them on.  Now some of them are producing leaves.
>
> Will this be a permanently weaker tree, or if it
> does survive and grow will it be just as good as a
> well-grafted tree?
>
> =====
> Lisa in Ashland Oregon
> USDA Z7 - Sunset Z7 - 1800' - 19" annual rainfall
>
>
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
> http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover
> _______________________________________________
> nafex mailing list
> nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>
> **YOU MUST BE SUBSCRIBED TO POST!**
> All other messages are discarded.
> No exceptions.
> ----
> To subscribe or unsubscribe, go to the bottom of this page (also can be 
> used to change other email options):
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex
>
> File attachments are NOT stripped by this list
> TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM COMPUTER VIRUSES!
> Please do not send binary files.
> Use plain text ONLY in emails!
>
> Message archives are here:
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex
>
> NAFEX web site:   http://www.nafex.org/

--
Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Canada
Hardiness Zone 5b