Scion from older trees, no water whips.

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I grabbed some scion off of a roadside find. There were no water whips. Got a few branch tips, some had fruiting buds on them. Did not have luck grafting stuff like that last year.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Yea that is a bit tougher job. I would say our success rate goes from about 98% on apples to between 40-50%. Stone fruit is even worse and then on top of that some of the grafts will take but the scion just never really pushes any decent vegetative growth. to form a viable tree.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Yea that is a bit tougher job. I would say our success rate goes from about 98% on apples to between 40-50%. Stone fruit is even worse and then on top of that some of the grafts will take but the scion just never really pushes any decent vegetative growth. to form a viable tree.

TC -

Are you saying grafting with branch tips is harder/less likely to succeed than grafting with water sprouts??