Grafting rootstock that woke up

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Saint lawrence order came in. I hilled the siberian rootstock while I wnet up to camp and planted the bareroot apple trees. I come back from camp and the siberians have mouse ears. My other tree order came in and a few are awake there too.

Should I focus on the dormant ones first for better success, then go to the awake ones? Or no big deal. If the siberians are too gone, no big deal I wanr some bird crabs anyways.

 

[Turkey Creek]

They will be fine to graft.

 

[g squared 23]

I’d think grafting just about anything this time of year would be fruitful. I did a couple mulberry and a bradford pear yesterday. I have a few M111 rootstocks in the ground left to go. Never enough time.

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[BuckSnort]

I’m certainly no expert but I’ve always figured if the rootstock was showing some life it would help with getting everything flowing and the tree healing. Never had any issues. I’ve been doing a good amount of top grafting as well and there I think it definitely helps the bark pop open nice so you can slide the scionwood right in.

 

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Got 2 trees orders that came in within days of each other. Planted the bareroots at camp this past weekend, then a few at home, and now I'm grafting and potting them. I got 25 of them at camp now. 30-06 on anty is looking real good up there.

Siberian's were starting to leaf out some. So I did those 1st. M111's are asleep still, but not too many roots. Anty is starting to wake up, but not too bad.

rootstock didn't looks as bad as I first thought.

What has me a bit concerned is the forbidden fruit scion starting to see a bit of green on the buds. Enterprise x honeycrisp. Was only going to graft 3, but did an extra one to be safe, and all of them on the best looking rootstock too. Kinda bigger sticks on top of it too.

Got another dozen rootstocks to graft n pot, then have 2 or 3 trees to topwork and leftover scion material to park on waterwhips on my older trees.