Freeborn
5 year old buck +
There has been a couple threads about apple grafts that are having failures after starting out successful. I am having the same experience (dried out buds, leaf curl and some dark edges on the leaves) and am wondering if the mistake I made was not keeping the humidity level high on my new grafts.
When I originally grafted my apple trees I placed a white trash bag over the grafts to protect them from the sun and to keep the scions moist. After very good initial success I took the bags off thinking I was ready to move on. Unfortunately I have had several grafts start to fail and I am afraid I might have lost more grafts than I should have. I’m thinking the issue is that I did not keep the graft moist and of course it took me a couple of days to realize humidity might be the problem. I have now put the white trash bags back onto my grafts and am hoping I can recover a couple of grafts that started to fail.
Attached is a link to a article on taking care of newly grafted fruit trees and the second step on the list is keeping the grafts humid.
http://www.seattletreefruitsociety....012/05/stfs-careforgraftedtree-forwebsite.pdf
I’m not certain if this will help now but I figure it’s worth the effort.
When I originally grafted my apple trees I placed a white trash bag over the grafts to protect them from the sun and to keep the scions moist. After very good initial success I took the bags off thinking I was ready to move on. Unfortunately I have had several grafts start to fail and I am afraid I might have lost more grafts than I should have. I’m thinking the issue is that I did not keep the graft moist and of course it took me a couple of days to realize humidity might be the problem. I have now put the white trash bags back onto my grafts and am hoping I can recover a couple of grafts that started to fail.
Attached is a link to a article on taking care of newly grafted fruit trees and the second step on the list is keeping the grafts humid.
http://www.seattletreefruitsociety....012/05/stfs-careforgraftedtree-forwebsite.pdf
I’m not certain if this will help now but I figure it’s worth the effort.
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