From reading some here the preferred method of grafting seems to be spring grafts , Why not t bud early aug mine seem to take about 90 percent and grow vigorous after bud takes the next spring the large root system under the one bud really pushes that first year growth . just an inquiry ?
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CrazyEd
5 year old buck +
I think dormant grafting is easier to gather scions. You can trade with other folks, put it in the fridge for months, and graft when it is convenient. T-budding don't you pretty much need to graft almost immediately?
I always bench graft in spring and tbud my failures in August. The undoing is easy and I have good success.
I always bench graft in spring and tbud my failures in August. The undoing is easy and I have good success.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
Because I enjoy the physical ease of grafting on a bench as opposed to lying or setting on the ground, and as of yet I have had very poor success with budding. I will tinker with it a bit as I would like to figure out why my success with budding is so low. Most commercially produced trees are budded.
Merle Hawggard
5 year old buck +
I've had good luck with t budding in Aug, but like ce, pretty much only use it for any spring grafts that fail. I've never tried June budding, but plan on trying a few this year to see if I can get growth this year instead of next on a few varieties on my nurse tree I'd like to have on the farm.
chickenlittle
5 year old buck +
It depends on how you want to do things. Potted nursery, nursery, or planted in final location. I am doing a mix of approaches. Bench grafts going out in the field and in my new nursery. Last year's T budded trees in their final location. Rootstock in the nursery to be budded. Bench grafts going into the nursery might get budded to something else.
Bench grafting gives a year advantage in growth and easy availability of scionwood but i worry about storing to keep dormant and in good health until i can plant out my bench grafts. Easier to protect a bench graft with windowscreen once it takes off in the field.
I like budding but it takes another year. Easy to plant rootstock right away. I was able to get great budwood from the USDA but difficult to share/trade otherwise...needs shipped overnight. Hard to care for and protect tbuds in the field from rabbbits and voles in the field from the time you bud until you can screen it...I guess you could bud high on the rootstock depending on snow depth. I lost one tbud to rabbits and one T-budded rootstock to voles this year.
Many ways to get it done.
Bench grafting gives a year advantage in growth and easy availability of scionwood but i worry about storing to keep dormant and in good health until i can plant out my bench grafts. Easier to protect a bench graft with windowscreen once it takes off in the field.
I like budding but it takes another year. Easy to plant rootstock right away. I was able to get great budwood from the USDA but difficult to share/trade otherwise...needs shipped overnight. Hard to care for and protect tbuds in the field from rabbbits and voles in the field from the time you bud until you can screen it...I guess you could bud high on the rootstock depending on snow depth. I lost one tbud to rabbits and one T-budded rootstock to voles this year.
Many ways to get it done.
