What are you grafting this year?

[Corey Peterson]

Just curious what everyone is grafting this year.

Here’s my list;
Windham Russet
Holzer Russet
Shavel sharp
Fuel Service
Tolman sweet
Smoke house

 

[Bowsnbucks]

It's illegal to graft Franklin, I believe. Licensing rights ??

I'm grafting (2) of a crab from Sandbur, one Minnesota 1734, (2) from an unknown late-hanging, all winter dropping apple near my camp, and Winter Wildlife crab.

 

[sandbur]

I will be top working with

Winter Wildlife Crab, thanks B and B

Also Buckman Crab

Art’s Berry Crab

Last two are seedlings.

Small Chunk is going to bench graft a few for me.


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[cavey]

My 100 rootstocks arrived a day ago. I've got 25 cider tree scions from GRIN, a number of late hanging wild apple and crab trees and a hand full of known crabs and a few scions off of some of my older known apple trees. I noticed a bunch of rootstock sprouts off of some plume and pear trees, Im going to graft onto them from the parent tree and stool the shoots in hopes of getting a few more trees,

 

[Mortenson]

My Cummins order came in yesterday. Planted a yoinashi, seckel & wickson in the morning then after work yesterday and today I got a bunch of my grafting knocked out. It's my first big grafting project and I don't feel super good about how it's going. Yesterday's batch I sealed then taped. Today I taped then sealed, which seemed a little better. Mostly grafting later dropping stuff.

 

[aerospacefarmer]

It's illegal to graft Franklin, I believe. Licensing rights ??

I'm grafting (2) of a crab from Sandbur, one Minnesota 1734, (2) from an unknown late-hanging, all winter dropping apple near my camp, and Winter Wildlife crab.

Only if you get caught lol

 

[chickenlittle]

Since he said Franklin, I assume he means the Delicious x Macintosh cross from Ohio Agricultural Experimental Station in the 1950s. It was released under the name Franklin. Surely he did not mean Franklin Cider, HT member Appleman/Bill Mayo's tree. Because Stark Brothers has exclusive rights to propagate Franklin Cider.

"Franklin, a Delicious X Mcintosh cross, is harvested between the picking dates of its parents. It is essentially a late fall and early winter apple. When the trees are well pruned this is one of the most attractive varieties in the Station orchards. The trees must be very carefully sprayed since this variety is especially subject to scab. At its best Franklin is one of the highest quality apples ever tested at the Station. It is suggested as a worthwhile variety for roadside or local market. It lends itself to packing in the single cell type of contained or for counter display." https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/70770/1/OARDC_research_circular_n034.pdf

 

[Corey Peterson]

Oh great I was almost criminal! I didn't think Franklin was protected guess I'll take off the list to graft this year.

 

[chickenlittle]

I'm bench grafting pears. Field grafting a few pears, some persimmon, and maybe a couple paw paw. I might top work a couple apples too.

Benchgrafts are going to be on 50 OHxF87, 20 P. Betulifolia seedlings, seedlings of 10 aronia and 10 amelanchier alnifolia serviceberry. I don't know if the aronia and serviceberry will be large enough to graft or not but hose are just for play in the backyard looking for early dwarf production.

I got the OHXF87 from Willamette last week. Wasn't happy to be charged a $31 box and handling fee on top of the $30 UPS shipping. With that extra fee tacked on, it would have been cheaper to buy them retail from Raintree.

 

[chickenlittle]

Oh great I was almost criminal! I didn't think Franklin was protected guess I'll take off the list to graft this year.

Based on the filing date, you can graft your own Franklin Cider trees in 2036.
https://patents.google.com/patent/USPP28791

 

[Corey Peterson]

Only if you get caught lol

I think I'm already caught!! Oh well at least you guys kept me on the straight and narrow and hopefully I didn't make Bill mad!

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I think Chickenlittle nailed it. I didn't know about the Franklin variety he spoke of in the link he posted. There are so many apple varieties - thousands of them. Look how many have the word "Delicious" in their name. My lack of knowledge shouldn't stop you from grafting, Corey !!!

 

[Turkey Creek]

I have Franklin apple trees (that variety has been around for quite some time). The Franklin Cider apple is not the same variety.

 

[cavey]

I got the OHXF87 from Willamette last week. Wasn't happy to be charged a $31 box and handling fee on top of the $30 UPS shipping. With that extra fee tacked on, it would have been cheaper to buy them retail from Raintree.

I will have to check my billing invoice, it came in the mail two days after the rootstock showed up, to see if they did the same to me :-(. Im stooling my own apple tree rootstock "Antonovka" (at least thats not patented) now so after this year I shouldn't have to buy anymore unless I do some dwarfing stock. But I did want to order some pear and cherry rootstock next year but, if they are doing that with each order I may change up where if buy too.

 

[Apple Junkie]

I confess, I am envious of the grafting gurus here that have a high degree of confidence their scions will survive the grafting process.

This year I am grafting a 8 or 9 Ida Red scions to the rootstocks of last years failures. Thanks to some useful threads here, I think I have identified some things I could have done better last year. Hopefully this years class will have a better survival rate, practice makes perfect.

 

[yoderjac]

I've grafted some seedlings in the field already as well as containerized seedlings in my basement. The containerized seedling grafting is documented with pictures on the last page or two of this thread: http://www.habitat-talk.com/index.php?threads/starting-apples-from-seed-indoors-how-to.6613/

My list of scions currently include:
590198.04 - Coop 11
589425.04 - Desyealyx
589823.11 - Jonsib Crab
BlackTiwg
590217.03 - Coop 37
589768.05 - Unnamed
589777.11 - PRI 1918-1
589830-05 - PRI F2
613941.05 - Coop 41
VA Crab (Hewes)
Maya Favorite
Meyers Royal Limbertwig
Red Royal Limbertwig

I've also purchased some Bud 9 rootstock to do fruit trials grafting them with scions from my seedlings. They will be documented in the thread above as well.

Thanks,

Jack

 

[Mortenson]

How high up on OHxF97 rootstock is ideal grafting?

 

[Mortenson]

This forum is awesome. I just answered my question by searching back and seeing a comment from TC in '16.

"Just a note on your pears you can cut back farther into the root stock if you graft any again. That way you can avoid that dog leg." -- TC

 

[Mahindra3016]

I started grafting my 50 m111 rootstocks last evening.
grafting:
Liberty
Goldrush
Northern spy
Smiths Cider
Ark Blk
Golden russet
A few local wild apples
Pears:
10 Kieffer to seedling rootstock
I will be top working some wild pears to:
Kieffer
Terry Peary
Johantorp

 

[Northbound]

Did 150 m7 bench grafts with 26 varieties.. now I'm really itching for spring