Jandey, whenever you see new growth, about 2 weeks. You can remove the plastic and water, wait another week before remove the tape around the scion. You said, you graft 2 months ago? It is still too early to do any graft..(if you in Texas)..I always wait until the weather is hot, around May or June (after my plants finish with blooming season). It needs humidity for grafts to take. Marie

Yeah, there's a lot to like about the Korean fir understock. Nice and juicy, and the green cortex layer is so thick. A good selection for the climate here, so any problems growing out the plants will not be the fault of the understock at least. Plus koreana makes such a beauiful tree in its own right. I wanted to save a few to grow as species trees, but I couldn't do it in the end, ran out of understock. Of the 50 that I ordered from Itasca, 2 turned out to be balsamea. I didn't even graft on those, didn't bother to waste my time...

A follow up to: Rookie Season Grafting Results Season 2 - Grafting Conifer Results Setup remained the same. I grafted about 25 conifers, and so far have 17 survivors (68%), but that number is really inflated, because I had a lot of failures where I did double and triple grafts and only 1 of the grafts survived. This year, I only grafted Spruce and Soft Pines, using Picea abies understock for the Spruce and Pinus strobus for the Pines. After 3 seasons of grafting, my conclusion is that Pines & Firs are easy. They are so forgiving, you can really screw up and they will still take, assuming good aftercare. Spruce, while certainly not the most difficult, are causing me a lot of frustration. I used a very sharp razor blade instead of a grafting knife this year, and purchased bare root understock from Pikes Peak in Spring of 2016. This allowed me to insure the rootstock was well cared for, not root bound, and increase my success over last year with spruce... neither action helped. ALL graft failures were on spruce, yet ALL spruce understock survived and will be reused next year. This confirms the issue was 100% with the graft, not the rootstock. On to some of the pictures of the survivors.... and my new mobile plant rig I built. Fully automated watering via drip lines this year... too many plants to keep up with now. All plants, except seedlings growing in Al's 5-1-1 Mix. Fertilized with Foliage Pro low dose liquid and Dynamite 15-5-9 for a granular. 1+ year plants on the left(full sun), fresh grafts (right) 50% shade cloth Pinus strobus 'Mason's Comet' (WB I found in 2014) Picea abies 'Gold Drift' Picea omorika ‘de Ruyter’ Picea abies 'Bird Park' (WB I found in 2015, nice blue tones) Pinus strobus 'Mini Twists' Pinus strobiformis 'Loma Linda' (Green buds, slow push) Yellow Variegated strobus seedling I found, no name. Waiting to see if it's stable About a 10 Araucaria araucana (Monkey Puzzle) from seed. I had great luck last year with Sheffield's seeed 7/7 germinated and are doing great. This year I doubled up my order, but the seed must not have been fresh. I only got 3/15... -Shawn

This guy I know who is an owner of a nursery that sells only grafted trees(mostly conifers) grafts his picea jezoensis species because grafting is his specialty and why grow from seed when he can just graft it easily. None of his products are propagated from seed. Also, I can't believe I forgot about Sc77s comment. I saw it and I was going to re ask the same question but turned out I forgot. I will re quote it "One interesting thing I always wondered.... a grafted plant is said to have the maturity of the parent tree, meaning that a grafted tree has the ability to cone right away, or within a year after recovering from the trauma of grafting. I always took this to mean it inherited the age of the parent tree, but I guess that can't be right, otherwise really old cultivars would be literally hundreds of years old now, since they all originated from the same tree... So what's the story with that? Is it just juvenile vs. mature DNA, but not necessarily age inheritance?" So yea, what is the deal with this? If a scion for grafting or cutting for root formation was taken from a 70 year old tree would that make the scionwood/cutting 70 years old once it has its roots?