Best method for grafting Rambutan?
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Comments (13)Cousin Floyd: I just pruned away some unwanted twigs/branches on an IL Everbearing tree (bearer of only very small berries) before going back outside to topwork it with 3 other varieties. Because the tree is actively growing now and forming leaves and berries, the sap is oozing out of the cut branches....good for the scions that will be thirsty for that sap starting this afternoon. .....Flooding a graft with EXCESS sap, such as when doing cleft grafts on muscadine vines, is a problem. The pressured clear sap ends up dripping/squirting through the taped graft for many days and interferes with healing. On those, I have done strategic notching on the upstream r/s vine to divert some of the flow until the graft area stops dripping from the oversupply. When the notches are "deep enough but not too deep", dripping occurs at the notches rather than through the graft tape further downstream....See MoreBest graft to add branch to cherry?
Comments (7)Marc, Certainly you can live with the Y. I don't think that it is crucial for cherries to be following a wide crotch angle as you do with most other fruits. Cherry fruit do not weigh that much compared to others like peaches, quinces, pears, although there are some conditions that would make them weigh more, but the trick is not training for a wider crotch angle, but rather length of the limbs and making them stouter. Shorter limbs are stronger, and of course shorter cherry trees. So in my opinion, you can most certainly learn to live with a Y shape, but of course the wider the angle of the Y, the better, the angle is not a major factor for me when it comes to cherries. Now that you have the Y angle, I would suggest you T-bud or chip bud on each of the arms of your Y. You can have up to 10 chip or T-buds on each arm, a total of 20 varieties, even more, only limited by your imagination, forming a nice well spread fan-shape design would be the one that I would prefer. The major advantage of bud grafts is that you can orient the direction of your future limbs, infinite number of ways around a stem, having the full 360 degrees and in between to orient each of the individual bud graft according to your very whims. Now, this is where some knowledge of particular cultivar come in handy. You would want the most vigorous cultivars oriented to the north side while the least vigorous ones to the southern orientation. You would want the most upright cultivars budded on the upper portion while the spreading habit cultivars on the lower protion of the main limbs. This way, you are ensuring that different cultivars will not shade each other out. Best time to T-bud is when the buds on the stock start to swell and you see pink color on the tip of the buds. Best time to chip bud is anytime before that but after freezing temperature. I have a 24-n-1 cherry tree, and another 18-n-1. Am assembling an ultra-dwarf multi-grafted container grown cherry tree at the moment. Container grown cherry trees are not as vigorous takers of grafts as those that are planted in ground. I also have a couple of single cultivar cherry trees and I leave them alone for my wine making needs, as they needed to be harvested at the same time. Have fun, Joe...See MoreWhat is your favorite grafting tape or method?
Comments (35)Similar to Greyphase, I'm fairly new to grafting (2nd year) and have had good success with cleft grafts. Last year I had 58% (11/19) success grafting onto established apple tree. This year, I've improved to 83% (29/35), which will hopefully go higher, as some of the grafts are pretty recent. The main reason I haven't used the Splice and Whip and Tongue grafts is that when I tried to practice it with my prunings, I kept butchering it. I order most of my scionwood, so there is only so much I can waste before I get no graft. This year I've made over 100 grafts (mostly apples and pears, but I've also done some peaches, plums, mulberry, grapes, and persimmons). I only screwed up about 5 cleft grafts so badly that I wasted wood. In most of those, I was able to move up a bit on the scion and reduce the number of buds a bit (usually from 3 to 2). As Harvestman noted, cleft can be useful when you are working with mismatched sizes. About a third of my apple grafts this year are double-cleft grafts, where I used 2 smaller scions, in one graft. It is time-consuming, but I think all my note-taking uses just as much time. I've actually cut back on it, as when first started, I actually recorded the scion width (in mm), length, number of buds, etc, for each graft. Just before I grafted the peaches, I watched a video on grafting Mangoes, where they used a side-graft. It looked interesting and I figured that I could shave a bit of bark off and tie things straight. So, I tried it 3 times with the peaches and at least two are greening up. It was only 2 weeks ago, so I have hope for some of the others. Of the cleft-grafted peaches, at least 2 of the 4 also took. For next year, I think I'll need to look into some double-bladed pruners. I bet I could make more even cuts with that, than with a knife. While some of my cleft grafts from last year have grown only a little, I had others which put on 3+ feet of growth. In the below pic (currently a 20 variety tree), you can see 2-3 branches which I've recently tied down. They Ross Nonpareil and Holstein grafts from last spring....See MoreBest grafting method for small apple seedling?
Comments (6)Thanks for the suggestions. Here's a link to a thread from last summer showing a photo of my seedling. It grew a little more since then before it got put to bed. http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/1488406/suggestions-needed-for-apple-seedling-what#3914314 Have been watching some grafting videos, and right now I'm leaning toward a cleft graft and wrapping the whole graft with parafilm just because it looks easy. The whole situation is very fluid though, and I'm sure I'll change my mind 100 times about stuff in the next 6 weeks. I hastily ordered a couple of scions just because I thought I was going to miss the window for ordering. They don't seem that easy to find in small quantities....See Morerayandgwenn
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