What is your favorite grafting tape or method?
clarkinks
9 years ago
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clarkinks
9 years agoScott F Smith
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Polyfilm and Parafim grafting tapes
Comments (6)"Parafilm" is a different crittur from poly, which is the same thing bread bags are made of. Some people find that strips of bread bag do as well as store-bought tape. Poly tape does not stick to itself, whereas parafilm does quite easily. Once you make a few snug wraps of parafilm you end up with a continuous seal. One can use poly tape to help close up a graft, but parafilm seals much better and more readily. It is almost waxy, and can be pushed and pulled into place better than poly. I find the green nursery tape of no use in grafting but it can be helpful to tie something out of the way, or to a stake....See MoreParafilm grafting tape
Comments (11)Sorta depends on what procedure I'm using. If I'm doing a 3 or 4-flap 'banana' graft or modified bark graft on pecan or walnut(or persimmon) - I wrap first with Parafilm - it's easier for me to hold all the pieces together while wrapping Parafilm with less pressure/torque than you have to exert when stretching that rubber band - then the Parafilm holds things together nicely while you overwrap with the rubber. For slow-callusing grafts like nut trees, I'll overwrap the rubber with masking tape or aluminum foil to prevent UV from breaking it down so quickly - but you gotta come back and remove the foil - and sometimes the masking tape as well, but usually loosens up on its own and the rubber band degrades. If I'm doing a simple whip on apple or pear, I just wrap with parafilm, then overlay the graft union with a couple of layers of masking tape - I don't even use a rubber band on those any more - the pomefruits callus in so rapidly that the tape is usually adequate to hold 'em in place 'til they knit together. If I'm doing a whip & tongue on apple or pear, I'll usually do the rubber band first, 'cause even though I've been doing 'em for years, I still haven't got the hang of making my cuts just right so that all cambium layers match up perfectly without really putting some pressure on 'em with the rubber. Then overwrap the whole thing - union & scion in its entirety - with Parafilm....See MoreGrafting Tape vs. Transparent Tape vs. Paper Tape
Comments (23)So... a few month's back...before I started posting comments on this forum, again, after a long absence, I came across some You-Tube videos: Maria's Garden series...about Adenium and growing other tropical plants. Love the lady. Videos are filled with good information and posted by a lady who can successfully grow plants. Her video tutorial on how to graft Adenium using the Super Glue method was a revelation! With care, matching the diameter of the understock branches to the diameters of the grafts will give you seamless, almost invisible graft unions. I followed the video, and followed Maria's instructions, and got perfect results. I grafted in March, 2020 while my plants were dormant....and still had success. Both of my grafted plants will now have the flowers that I want, instead of the garish pink and white single blossoms that are the typical, default Adenium flowers. I do not like pink! The original plants, seedlings are probably 2-4 yrs old, and are at least 18" from roots to top....single-stems, no branches. Flowers are the usual pink singles. I bought the tall olants so that I can train them into the tower style Adenium "trees". But the pink flowers had to go! I happened to see a beautiful, multi-branched, Adenium in the garden center of HD that had dark cherry-red, single blossoms with a white throat. Very pretty contrast. I used the branches off this HD plant for grafting. I just Super-Glued some red-flower branches onto the top of my "tower" Adenium, and eliminated, said good-bye, to those ugly pink flowers. Plants are doing well, and I'm happy. Glue you way to success....See MoreGrafting methods
Comments (8)If anyone needs how to videos on grafting I would suggest checking out this channel http://www.youtube.com/user/stephenhayesuk?feature=watch . The purpose of this question is more related to stone fruit grafting techniques vs. pome fruit grafting techniques and when and why to change methods. Many of us have a very distinct set of tools that we use. For me personally I like tanglefoot sealer, actual grafting tape, I use toilet wax ring instead of grafting wax strictly because it's less expensive, crescent wrench to match size of scion wood, victorinox knife, clippers, saws etc.. and then my signature methods I always use as mentioned are whip and rind grafts. Recently I had an expert mention to me that I should use side grafts for apricots instead of my planned method of rind grafts. I am experimenting this year top working Manchurian apricots over to honey peaches and prunus besseyi to hybrid plums....See MoreKevin Reilly
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