Subject: RE: [NAFEX] spring grafting; bench grafting
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:53:55 +0000
When I was learning & experimenting w/ grafting, I tried bench grafting and
had 100% FAILURE, because of SEVERAL errors, I've since learned. I found
that my best success was to graft in May, even into early June, with dormant
scion (stored in refrig), onto rootstocks which had fully broken dormancy,
and which had been planted into a nursery row at least one year ahead. I
use a simple graft: one long diagonal cut on the rootstock stem, and one
long diagonal cut on the scion, and an elastic wrap to join the two. And
keep the nursery row watered.
tc, s.WI, rather poor sandier soil.
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From: Jason MacArthur <rotread@localnet.com>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] spring grafting
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:46:28 -0500
I have a few Bud9 apple trees going into 2nd leaf which I would like to
graft over to other varieties. I have done cleft grafting on larger trees
but I am leery of doing this on so small a tree. Another option is to do
whip and tongue grafts on all the branches, "topwork" the tree so to speak.
A third option, which was recently recommended to me, is to bud graft the
trees over in spring, a method I am not familiar with. My fourth option is
to wait and bud graft the trees in late summer. Are there are any
recommendations out there? I am relatively new to grafting and apple tree
growing, and I don't want to mess up my poor little trees!
Jason MacArthur
Marlboro, Vt
Zone 4b
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RE: [NAFEX] spring grafting; bench grafting,
tanis cuff, 01/09/2004