Questions tagged [grafting]
Propagation technique where the tissues of one plant are inserted into those of another.
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Apple grafting: to remove rootstock buds or not?
I recently pruned my apple trees and decided to try to graft those cuttings instead of tossing them in the compost just for fun. I pruned my trees and grafted to my rootstocks on the same day (3/21) ...
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Should I nip flower buds to encourage rooting
I have dipped a few twigs from fruit trees (apple, cherry, peach) in a rooting hormone, and planted them in a small container.
The twigs have started flowering (two weeks after planting them). To ...
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Grafting branches on rootstock
I have recently gotten into grafting. I just finished grafting my apple scions to my rootstocks. During that process I came up with a question. Typically you graft your scion to the trunk of the ...
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How to choose a potato race for grafting with a tomato?
I'm planning to experiment with grafting a cherry tomato plant onto a potato plant this year. I understand that the potato plant will have to be of a relatively late race so that the tomatoes can be ...
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Can a crabapple scion graft to an apple rootstock?
Given that apple trees can be pollinated from crabapples are apple rootstocks compatible with crabapple scions also?
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How to improve success rate when grafting English walnut (juglans regia)
We have a walnut orchard in Central Otago, a dry, cool-temperate region of New Zealand. We're having very poor success rates with our grafting (~10-20% or less) and I'm trying to figure out why. I'm ...
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should i be trimming non-grafted branches
I have a grafted apple tree and there are a few new branches growing from the rootstock.
Am I suppose to clip these? (keep the rootstock bear of any branches other then grafted ones)
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What should I do with these branches at the bottom of my tree?
I recently purchased a Hakuro Nishiki Willow (tree) from a nearby nursery. When it was delivered I realized it had a set of new branches coming out of the base of the tree, that look way different ...
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Save Pest Damaged Sapling
It seems a rodent or other pest ate the leaves of my tree sapling (2" tall). The top appears to have been bitten off.
A few days have passed and I still have not seen regrowth. Is there a way to ...
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When to determine when a fruit tree graft has failed?
I had my first go at grafting at the beginning of April, i.e. about 5 weeks ago. This was on apple trees. The temperature has been above freezing ever since, typically 5-15 degrees. The tree itself ...
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Grafting only one of three branches of Mulberry
I have a white mulberry tree. I have planted it about 3 months ago. It was already pretty good in size and it is growing well. As you can see in the picture below, it has three main branches. I want ...
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Quince and apple grafting (workaround?)
I am curious about a sort of potential workaround for the issue of grafting quince and apples together. I know that with standard grafting the graft will almost certainly fail within a few years, if ...
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Is there any way to reconnect a severed vine with a water melon (small size) at the end of the vine?
I was pruning my garden. Accidently I cleanly cutoff a the main vine of my watermelon plant.
At the end of that vine there was a small melon (2/3 of a basketball). I immediately slice a longitudinal ...
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Apple Trees: Grafting multiple scions to new rootstock
I've gotten bitten by the apple grafting bug, and after some initial successes have placed an order for around 20 scions or different varieties, and around 15 MM102 rootstocks (thickness unknown, the ...
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Grafting crabapple Malus floribunda on M26 rootstock?
I have an one year old M26 rootstock in my yard, and there is a gorgeous Malus floribunda in front of a building where I work.
M26 is one of the commonest rootstocks for apples (Malus domesticas). ...
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The Lateral branch on a Red Clapp's Pear 3 tier espalier tree broke at the graft. How can I replace it?
I reconnected and taped the original branch back in place but it eventually died.
There is a healthy matching branch on the other side of the trunk.
Can I cut it in 1/2 and graft the cutting onto the ...
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Grafting avocado
I have grafted avocado seedlings with hass scions. After 5 weeks, I unwrapped the grafting tape (I used kitchen foil for grafting tape). The scion par of graft is live and showing growth (not strong ...
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Can new branches be grafted to cedar hedge stump?
I have a large cedar hedge that in most parts is very full and dense, but due to excessive outward growth and lack of consistent pruning, there are sections that are very open and "woody", ...
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Big root sucker on productive orange tree
This orange tree produces wonderful oranges in large quantity. I just noticed that its double-trunk structure is due to a sucker that was allowed to grow and nearly take over. The two trunks form a ...
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Can I graft a citrus using two different techniques simultaneously?
I am thinking of grafting a mandarin on a citrus tree that is most probably a grapefruit, but not sure. As I understand, they're compatible as both a citrus trees.
My question is - can I graft a bud ...
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Can you graft onto the stump of an established apple tree?
I have some well-established Bramley apple trees - 5 of them which is 2 more than I need, so my plan was to remove 2 ad plant other varieties.
But is it possible to graft a new tree onto the existing ...
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I woud like to graft a different variety of cherry onto an existing over-tall pin cherry tree
Tree is nearly 40' tall with approximately 12" trunk. Prolific producer of small tart cherries, but all are out of reach. The nearest branch is 16' off the ground.
• Can I graft other varieties of ...
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Why is this Japanese Maple growing mutant leaves?
This tree is about 6 years old. Every year, I have to trim off a couple branches which contain plain green leaves. It seems to be worse this year. I was under the impression that these mutant ...
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Can a clementine cutting be rooted with out rootstock?
I have this clementine cutting that I placed in to coco coir and when I tug on it it doesn’t come out.
And now it’s flowering !
Is this an advisable method of propagation?
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Citrus tree only growing watersprouts
I have a 6 year old citrus tree of the Washington Navel Variety.
A couple of weeks ago the weather warmed up so it did that burst of new growth, but upon inspection, they all seem to be watersprouts. ...
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Forcing a non-grafted lemon tree to produce blooms & fruit
About 8.5 years ago I successfully germinated a lemon seed from a store-bought lemon (I believe it was a Eureka lemon). Fast-forward to today and that lemon seed has grown into a 9-foot tall tree. ...
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Can I graft a Scion on a mature tree branch?
Can I graft a scion on a different variety mature tree branch?
For example can I graft a Kingston Black apple scion on a Dabinett apple tree branch?
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Opposite of dwarfing rootstock
Is there such thing as a rootstock that instead of limiting a scion's size (a dwarfing rootstock), instead increases the scion's size and vigor (a "giganting" or "maximizing" rootstock)? For example ...
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How to graft a plum tree
these days I am going to prune my plum tree, I will perform the pruning following the guidelines of this article that talks about pruning a plum tree (it is in Spanish but nothing that Google ...
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Can bridge grafts be successful on oaks?
A magnificent oak was damaged 6 years ago during construction of a residence. Much of the bark on one side has begun shedding and showing dead wood underneath. There IS some wound-wood growing into ...
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Young peach limb bent under load and splintered, can I mend it with a graft?
Pictures first, some discussion follows.
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Close up of the splintered limb..
The limb is probably about a half-inch in diameter. You can see that I attempted to prop it up, which was ...
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If a pineapple is actually a berry then can it be grafted onto another berry tree?
Same would be the case for avocados, watermelon, bananas, and pumpkins that are also classified as berries. Can they all be grafted onto one another?
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What should I do next to take care of this cactus which I grafted two years ago?
Two years ago I succeeded in this grafting. I would like to know how long you think it will resist the cactus feeding the graft and what to do next?
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Can toy/ dry clay be used as an alternative to grafting wax?
Can toy/ dry clay (clay we use to give kids to play) be used as an alternative to grafting wax or can it be used as a grafting sealer?
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What is the best time period of the year to graft a tree/plant and what is the best time of the day to graft a tree?
I live in Sri Lanka. It's dry and warm in the day time here and, temperature in day time here is around 30 degrees in Celcius. I want to know what is the best time period of the year for grafting a ...
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One Thread Graft - Two Branches? (Cherry)
Once a thread graft has fully and truly succeeded, will the “entry” side of the scion reverse its direction of growth (and survive) if you cut it ‘long’ thus creating two branches for the price of a ...
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Is this a sucker? Can they grow above the graft line?
I have a citrus tree of the Washington Navel variety, which is around 4 years old (and has been here for 2 of those). Naturally this means it's a scion grafted onto rootstock of which I don't know the ...
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How to tape a split cherry tree?
I planted a flowering cherry this spring. A delivery of top soil ended up with it bend flat under a ton bag... After this was removed the tree wasn't smashed but is partially split where the trunk was ...
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What to use - seed grown citrus as rootstock?
I have been growing a "clementine tree" from seed for about three years now and decided that I might want to experiment with some grafting onto it. So, I went away to try and went way overboard (as ...
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Can root sprouts from a very old Baldwin apple be from a different rootstock?
We had a very old Baldwin apple tree (more than 100 years old) that finally fell down last year. It now seems to be developing sprouts from the roots. My question is: since this is a very old tree, ...
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Is there a limit how many branches I can graft onto a mature apple tree?
I have 5 mature Bramley apple trees - I think at least 10-15 years old, I do not know the rootstock but they are easily 6m high so I assume something large; they are also in great soil and get a ...
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How does the T budding grafting method provide contact between the cambium layers?
In a T budding technique of grafting fruit trees, how does the cambium layer of the bud come into contact with the cambium layer of the rootstock?
How does this great method have such a high success ...
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Two grafts needed for weeping mulberry - is it true, and why?
I bought two weeping mulberries this year, and I am really excited about them (see pic).
However, something confuses me. The person I bought them from says that each weeping mulberry (at least those ...
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Can a topworked female pistachio tree be pollinated by grafting a male bud or scion?
If one has female pistachio trees coming into bearing age, can they be pollinated by grafting a male bud or scion onto a topworked female?
If so, assuming it's done early in grafting season and with ...
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What is the best grafting knife?
Help me choose the best grafting knife, right know i have the draper 76777 (the first photo) but it is a single edged knife. I am between those grafting knives in the photos, if you recommend ...
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Will a scion with removed leaves dry earlier than the one with leaves on?
I want to know which one of the two branches will dry earlier. The one with leaves or the other that has removed leaves? I want to transfer a bud for grafting from some distance and i want to keep the ...
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Modern rootstock for grape vine
There are a lot of classic rootstocks in use where I live, like SO4 (Selection Oppenheim 4), Chasselas x Berlandieri 41 B, Kober 5BB, but I'm interested in rootstocks in use nowadays in Europe.
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How to graft my 3 year old Avocado tree?
I have a 3 year old avocado tree about a meter and a half high. I planted it from a seed of an avocado I ate. I was told I need to graft it for it to hold fruit. What kind of graft should I do? What ...
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Fruit trees root growth
I have several fruit trees all in good condition, all around 2 years old.
One of them is a morello cherry. He was bought as a one year
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On its second year, I missed pruning and ultimately he ...
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Will grafting seed grown citrus onto a rootstock bring fruiting forward
So Iv got a nice variety of mandarin from the supermarket and am growing it from seed. Iv heard fruiting can take yeeeeears of grown this way. Iv seen a fruiting bitter orange for sale online for £25, ...
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