Root Grafts

[greyphase]

The Dolgo rootstock that I received from Ryan at Blue Hill had insane roots. :) and there was no way I was going to pot them up in my usual 3 gallon grow bags. So out came the pruners. But then I had all these nice looking pieces of roots that I couldn't let go to waste. So I cleft grafted scion to them. I'm happy to report that I have had great success.

 

[yoderjac]

Very nice! The Master Grafter at my class talked about doing that. He said when you was young and they ran out of clonal root stock, his dad would send him the the orchard with a shovel and have him dig up roots from their existing trees for grafting.

 

[sandbur]

I did that with a dolgo rootstock from Ryan two years back. I put Lee 37 on it and it has done fine.

I put the graft just arbor right below ground level and had to scrape the dirt away just a bit to make sure the tape was coming loose. I probably had e tape on it.


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