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Carpathian walnuts grafts vs seedling
Comments (3)Well, with seedlings, it is always sort of a crap shoot -- might be really, really good, really really bad, or anything in between. If Millers used a good quality parent stock, most of the progeny should be similar. You really won't know until it actually bears. The bad thing about seedling grown is that they take a LOT longer to bear. Grafted wood is already physiologically sexually mature, whereas seedlings have to go through the juvenile stage before they reach bearing age, and depenging on the species, this can be quite a few years. Don't know with walnuts, but I'm guessing something like 10 to 20 years -- at least it seems to be that long with the black walnuts I've observed. Butternuts are bit shorter. Don't know about Carpathian/English walnuts....See MorePreparing Conifer Seedling Understocks For Winter Grafting
Comments (18)They can be branched, certainly. If You were to graft a scion that size, you'd need a seedling that looked similar, i.e. the same amount of foliage/thicker trunk/more roots. Everything when grafting has to be of proportionate size. So, returning to grafting a very small scion on a large seedling, a decent amount of foliage on the seedling is retained until the scion seems proportionate on its own/w/o the need for foliage on the seedling to survive from a certain point on forward... It may be years until all the seedling-rootstock foliage is slowly removed over a period of time while the scion grows during those years... and eventually the end result is a remaining scion on the rootstock that is supporting the root-system with all all the energy the roots need coming from the scion. Every situation is up to the grafter to decide what to do. Some more extreme than others. I've kept branching on a grafted plant for 5-years or more until my scion was ready to support the need of balance to feed the root system. It's a feel..... something you learn, sometimes the hard way. Dax...See MorePossible to dwarf seedling mangos thru grafting?
Comments (10)Thanks everyone for all your suggestions. My winter-protection of the seedling trees isn't always perfect, and there is quite often freeze damage on the ends of the branches that are close to the tarps and frost blankets encircling the cages. This system works well for my grafted mangos, because branch length is relatively short, and they can bloom because the branch tips aren't so close to the cage. But on seedling mangos, as you probably know, branches need to be...I don't know...at least six feet in length or more before they bloom. That just isn't possible for me to protect them at this size. Hence, my question about the self-grafting. If you take a branch tip, and move it to the trunk -- I thought that was part of the principle involved in getting a dwarfed tree, and also to get it to fruit sooner? With so much pruning and die-back, my three trees are essentially topped. Main trunks are perhaps three feet tall, and the branches radiate outwards. I know picturing this is difficult for those who have never had to winter-protect and heat a tropical tree! -Bruce...See MoreWhen is a seedling ready for grafting?
Comments (1)Yes, it is OK to open the humidity box. You can graft a seedling as young as you are comfortable working with. If it's your first time grafting I would wait until the seedlings are 3-4 weeks old or even older, they are larger and easier to handle at that point....See MoreHyn Patty, Western NC Mountains (USA)
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