2014 Grafting Adventures of CrazyED

[Bowsnbucks]

Grey - I read somewhere that if grafts form blossoms, they should be pinched off to stimulate more leaf & leader growth upward. Can't remember where I read it though. I pinched the blossoms off the 2 of my grafts that formed them. Leaves are cooking now. FWIW.

 

[buckvelvet]

Here's a pristine I grafted a month ago.

Matt is that a bad thing to have a graft flowering, seems crazy that it would!

 

[buckvelvet]

Is g30 a good idea for a home orchard in beach sand, cuz thats what I have, lol.

 

[aerospacefarmer]

It's a good thing if it's the only bud that is broken lol. I have 2 grafts that have nothing bud flower buds and I let my others one go as well just to see what happens. You can pinch them off at anytime

 

[Honker]

Ed, have you been pinching off the rootstock growth or are your rootstock just not leafing out yet? They seem pretty clean in your pictures.

 

[aerospacefarmer]

Pinch off the rootstock growth but you can always leave something to keep the rootstock going in case of scion failure. I keep mine very clean and if I have goo scion growth I pinch off all root growth

 

[CrazyEd]

Ed, have you been pinching off the rootstock growth or are your rootstock just not leafing out yet? They seem pretty clean in your pictures.

Pinched off a few tonight that were about 1" long. For the most part they haven't moved much yet so i havent had much to remove yet. But with the warmer weather things should really start to take off.

 

[NY_Terrence]

Ed,
Are you going to share your excel table with growth to date?

I haven't measured growth on mine yet. 38/42 grafts took. 25 of the 38 are doing well (+/- 2-6 inches growth). Some started strong and wilted suddenly. It's not great, but far better than last year.

 

[CrazyEd]

Ed,
Are you going to share your excel table with growth to date?

I haven't measured growth on mine yet. 38/42 grafts took. 25 of the 38 are doing well (+/- 2-6 inches growth). Some started strong and wilted suddenly. It's not great, but far better than last year.

No, I just don't have time and I have way too many trees now. With a dozen or so trees it was easy but now it would take forever.

I have told people in my opinion you don't know if a tree takes until 3-4 months after grafting. So I'm not surprised by your comment about the wilting.

 

[greyphase]

I have told people in my opinion you don't know if a tree takes until 3-4 months after grafting. So I'm not surprised by your comment about the wilting.

+1

 

[aerospacefarmer]

No, I just don't have time and I have way too many trees now. With a dozen or so trees it was easy but now it would take forever.

I have told people in my opinion you don't know if a tree takes until 3-4 months after grafting. So I'm not surprised by your comment about the wilting.

Alleluia. I was wondering when that record keeping would get to you lol. I was psyched with all the graft success now I am dying planting them all and caging them all 7 or so per week. Why did I do so many lol

 

[CrazyEd]

Dolgo on B.118

Hewes Crab

Kerr

Prairie Spy

Red Honker Crab

Mystery Apple

Whitney Crab

Snowsweet

All Winter Hangover

 

[buckvelvet]

Very nice Ed, wish I had that look to most of mine. :)

 

[CrazyEd]

Very nice Ed, wish I had that look to most of mine. :)

I have plenty of grafts that didn't take, no point in photographing those. I will tbud in August like I have in the past, and I'll get more to take. It takes time, but each tree will get its turn. I am happy to report a bunch of the new varieties that I tried, for the most part I got 1 of each looking good. More diversity is what I'm after. Plus I can't plant 200 trees at the farm at once, so this helps spread it out a bit.

 

[aerospacefarmer]

Amen to that Matt!!!!

 

[buckvelvet]

Sad tale, one of my successful grafts was hit with an over spray of gly. Dead, ever want to to kick yourself in the nuts? Do that....

 

[Lot2Learn]

Sad tale, one of my successful grafts was hit with an over spray of gly. Dead, ever want to to kick yourself in the nuts? Do that....

Ouch

 

[buckvelvet]

Ouch

Yeah chalk that up to a BV epic fail.

 

[CrazyEd]

Bummer. Oh well, hopefully you learned your lesson and dont do that again. And it's a good excuse to graft more next year. If you dont have an excuse for next year :)

 

[buckvelvet]

Bummer. Oh well, hopefully you learned your lesson and dont do that again. And it's a good excuse to graft more next year. If you dont have an excuse for next year :)

I like where your heads at CE. You think Dipper would look to get a refund from the gly company on the account of the applicators stupidity?