Here we go
- Thread starter chucker66
- Start date
greyphase
5 year old buck +
Hey Chuck, I see your in zone 3b brrrrrrrrrr. You'll be able to get good advice from some of our far north members. For some of us grafting is an enjoyable hobby for others (like me) it's a palm sweating addiction, always thinking you need just one more variety of apple or pear to complete your orchard. 
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
I want to graft more of the late-hanging apples ( unknown variety ) that I sent scion to Greyphase from. ^^^^ I still don't know what variety they are - only that they hang and drop slowly all winter up into March. I can only use 1 or 2 of them because I'm about out of space, but I'll continue to graft in the future and supply some friends and relatives with some good apples. Hobby / addiction ??? It's still fun to mess around with each spring !!
Merle Hawggard
5 year old buck +
I'll third the addiction! Everytime I tell Chuck we've got enough I'll find one and think, boy! That one sounds good!
Sent from my SM-S903VL using Tapatalk
Sent from my SM-S903VL using Tapatalk
aerospacefarmer
5 year old buck +
I agree it's an addiction and am adding 8 new varieties of apple this year which will put me at about 110 varieties which is crazy. Some are similar and many are single trees but I really do have that many variety which is also a curse for spraying purposes
aerospacefarmer
5 year old buck +
Start using dwarf rootstocks haha. You can fit many more. Some can be planted 5 feet apart
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
HA!! You can go closer than that! 3' between most trees in a tall spindle, high production apple orchard.
buckvelvet
5 year old buck +
Tall spindle? To aggressive! How can you resist the beauty of the standard size stand on its own relics? I can't wait till my trees start dropping lbs of flesh. :)
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
BV - There IS something about the look of an old, full-sized apple tree that's been around for years. They kind of look like an old, weathered skeleton - leaning slightly the way the prevailing wind has shaped it. How many people and critters have they fed ??
buckvelvet
5 year old buck +
That was excites me, when i'm 70 i'll have a field full of full sized trees, good life to live. :)
greyphase
5 year old buck +
For the graft itself the plumbers tape should seal it. I've used parafilm to wrap the graft for several years now with good success. I use wax on the end of the scion to keep it from drying out, but you could use wood glue or treekote wound dressing. I'm sure there are other things too.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
Depends on if you are bench grafting root stock or top working and existing tree?
Corey Peterson
5 year old buck +
I resisted the urge to buy root stock this year - until yesterday Cummins sent an email out offering 25% off root stock and released some of the new M7/MM106 size Geneva root stock G.969. So close....
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
A little melted bees wax in a double boiler can be painted on from the graft union to the tip of the scion. If you have enough to make it worth a bigger wax purchase you can melt enough to just do a quick dip from the scion to the graft union into. In less than a second you can have it sealed.
NY_Terrence
5 year old buck +
Grafted 35 trees last weekend on B-118. 16 Swamp Apple (a wild tree on the property that the deer love), 10 Enterprise, 4 Liberty, 3 Kerr and 2 Chestnut Crab.
NY_Terrence
5 year old buck +
My pics show example of double boiler setup. This is a tip I got on the forum and used for the first time last year. I use a coat hanger to dip in the melted wax and paint on the tip of the scion and top and bottom of grafting tape.
