Scion from older trees, no water whips.

[bigboreblr]

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??

 

[Turkey Creek]

Not necessarily just saying that if your only option is grafting old, spurred up wood the success rate goes down considerably. We use new growth on branch tips and water sprouts for our normal grafting and can't say I have ever noticed a difference between those 2 sources.