2014 Grafting Adventures of CrazyED

[NY_Terrence]

Those pumpkin crabs are cool! I grafted Pumpkin Sweet this year from GRIN. Love the description on this site... Was used for feeding livestock. Some sites say September, but others October.

https://www.albemarleciderworks.com/product/trees/pumpkin-pound-sweet-apple-tree

 

[CrazyEd]

If you want to read about the fruit trees growing at my farm you'll have to pop over to this thread.

http://habitat-talk.com/index.php?threads/the-adventures-of-crazyed-the-beach-sand-guy.369/page-17

 

[CrazyEd]

Last weekend we had a nice heat wave come through. I think it was almost 70ish for like 3 days. I took my grafts out for a little sun bathing on my back patio (south side), underneath our big patio umbrella. Pulled them into the garage each night. Give them a little drink. They seem to respond well, then I went away turkey hunting for a few days and come back to a few trees exploding. Hitting some real nice growth spurts.

I keep them in a north facing window in the garage. Everything looking really good.

 

[CrazyEd]

Gave my trees a nice healthy dose of spring today and set them outside for 6-8 hours. Seeing some really nice growth spurts.

 

[CrazyEd]

Here are some pictures from March 29th of some Tbud's i made back in August of 2015.

Here's what 2 of them look like today, 1 month later. 4/29/2016. Today i pinched these down to a single leader and left the most aggressive one behind.

 

[buckvelvet]

Very nice CE, I don't think I'll ever venture into the t-budding world but I love to see some success on all kinds of ideas!

 

[CrazyEd]

Very nice CE, I don't think I'll ever venture into the t-budding world but I love to see some success on all kinds of ideas!

T-budding works great for failed bench grafts. That's what these were.

 

[buckvelvet]

T-budding works great for failed bench grafts. That's what these were.

Did you harvest your own summer bud wood?

 

[CrazyEd]

Did you harvest your own summer bud wood?

Yes, right from a previously grafted tree a few feet away.

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[buckvelvet]

HA! Well thats pretty cool indeed!

 

[CrazyEd]

Moved all my grafts out to the nursery today.

When I purchased my topsoil/mushroom compost I tarped it just so the rain didnt pack it down.

I packed them tight like I always do and then my helper watered them all. Should be cool tonight and tomorrow then towards the end of the week it should start warming up a bit.

Overall everything looks pretty good. I have not done a full inventory and likely wont for another month or two. I have had a few grafts look ok until August and then they finally croak. If i had to guess right now I would say i'm at roughly 85% success out of 100 grafts.

 

[jwill1776]

That is a sea of grafts, looking great.

 

[CrazyEd]

It apperas that my transplatning from 5 gallon bucket to the nursery has been highly successful. Everything looks great with no casualties as far as I can tell. They've been out side almost 2 weeks now and the weather has been very mild.

 

[CrazyEd]

Looks like low of 33 tomorrow night!

 

[Native Hunter]

Incredibly beautiful bunch of grafts!

 

[CrazyEd]

Incredibly beautiful bunch of grafts!

I've got a nice little Priscilla coming along in there going into year 2.

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[Native Hunter]

I've got a nice little Priscilla coming along in there going into year 2.

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Good deal!! I was just looking at the trees in my yard today, she has a nice crop this year. And even though the tree next to it had a touch of fireblight, Pricilla was spotless and radiant!

 

[Turkey Creek]

Its pretty amazing what a little heat can do to promote growth. I have some plums that I grafted that I swear you can watch grow on a sunny, warm day!:) We always say around here that you can hear the field corn growing on those hot, humid summer days.

 

[tinytim]

Looks great CE! Hope it did not get to cold for you

 

[CrazyEd]

Looks great CE! Hope it did not get to cold for you

I had my grafts covered with bed sheets and tarps, I think it should be ok.