Just a quick follow-up on my plum grafting this year -
Of the 6 grafts I did, 5 are in bud break! Photos are attached. What I
did (thanks to this group):
1. Waited until rootstock was past bud break and had dime-size leaves
(rootstock was actively growing)
2. Used a carefully matched whip & tongue graft (scion containing 2 buds)
3. Wrapped the entire graft very tightly with a budding rubber
4. Wrapped the entire graft thoroughly with parafilm, starting below the
graft and ending above it, carefully covering the lower bud with one layer
of parafilm, but leaving the upper bud uncovered
5. Painted the scion top cut with tree cote to help prevent drying
6. Wrapped with foil in an inverted "bell" shape - the goal here was to
protect the grafted portion from overheating, while leaving the upper end
open so the buds could grow out. The foil is wrapped tightly around the
rootstock JUST BELOW the graft, with the graft itself only very loosely
contained within the "bell" portion of the foil.
Photos are attached
I hope this helps the next person!
-Pete
Pete Chrisbacher
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>
wrote:
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> On Mar 24, 2016, at 2:27 AM, fuwa fuwa usagi wrote:
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> > I did not see the photos either.
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> I have not seen photos with any of the emails in this thread; though some
> of them have included the line
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> >>> A persimmon button pushing through Parafilm.
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> which I took to be possibly the title of the photo.
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