Grafting stone fruits

[Northbound]

We often talk about grafting apples on here but what about the stone fruits? Can we create Frankenstein stone fruit trees like cherries,peaches, plums all on one tree? Any other grafting method needed or treat like an apple?

If it makes difference i had 2 peaches from stark last year that tops died but rootstocks pushed up shoots.
Also have plums that are great looking 10 year old trees that never fruit. Have 6 varieties of cherry that thrive well so maybe I'm better off with those even though the birds beat me to harvest

 

[H20fwler]

I was thinking about this very thing today as I finished my pruning and was just dropping some nice cherry and peach scions to the ground. I need to learn more about them.

 

[Spur]

We often talk about grafting apples on here but what about the stone fruits? Can we create Frankenstein stone fruit trees like cherries,peaches, plums all on one tree? Any other grafting method needed or treat like an apple?

If it makes difference i had 2 peaches from stark last year that tops died but rootstocks pushed up shoots.
Also have plums that are great looking 10 year old trees that never fruit. Have 6 varieties of cherry that thrive well so maybe I'm better off with those even though the birds beat me to harvest

I read about an artist grafting 40 different varieties of stone fruit a few years back when I started grafting and I have been making franken stone fruit trees since then. One tree I have 4 plum varieties and I grafted 2 peach, and 1 nectarine this past fall.

Stone fruit is much harder to take a whip and tongue and cleft graft. Some reason they don’t like spring grafting. But in the fall, I will chip or t bud and they all take. I can make a very poor t bud graft (leave wood on, tore up cambium, etc) and they all take! Have fun with it but I won’t waste my time in the spring anymore.

 

[Turkey Creek]

It comes down more to timing with stone fruit grafts. They seem to graft much better when temps are higher and once the root stock has broke dormancy. Peaches probably require the highest temps for successful grafting. Wait until temps are getting into the upper 60s to 70s everyday before grafting.

 

[Northbound]

Do all stone fruits work on each other across the board? Seems I find articles of cherries onto plums but not the other way around.

For fall grafting do you store your same spring scion Wood in fridge all till fall or are there other method to collecting and storing? I've never attempted fall grafting as my mind gets a little more focused on harvesting venison than creating habitat at that point of year.

 

[Turkey Creek]

No fall budding is done with bud wood collected in August. There are some compatible stone fruit varieties, but I am not an expert on what might grow on another species.