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Great video as always. I attempted to graft some trees in my yard this spring using the techniques in your videos and they are growing well, but the wind has started to break some given their vigorous growth. I have staked some of them where that is possible, but for those grafts that cannot be supported, do you recommend pruning them down to reduce wind resistance? Thanks!
Yes. Absolutely! Very vigorous grafts should be pruned without fear. It's almost impossible to support them properly and the graft union won't hold. There's plenty of time to let them grow the following year.
@@JSacadura Thank you for your advice! I'm in the midwest and decided to heavily prune all of them before a big storm system moved through the area yesterday evening. They all survived wind gusts of 60-80 mph! I'm confident that the pruning saved them.
Thank you for your slowing detailed explanation about process of grafting of Eriobotrya japonica in this and previous videos! I appreciate your efforts to make it. Someday I would graft this exotic tree. I hope our next winters, at least for 5 years might be mild to allow my seedling tree to grow. Grafting material here is absent. We haven't such tree in a culture at all due to their tenderness in rare winters with freezings followed by cracks at bark layer after warm days come back. Such winters were almost every second in a past. But I hope to graft my seedling on quince to spread its material on other locations here due to climate change.
It's a wonderful fruit and a very good looking tree. It's unfortunate that is a bit too delicate for cold winter areas. Best of luck with your seedling. Quince is the go-to rootstock over here. Smaller trees, quick production, amazing resistance in less than ideal soils. I have some planted in clay soil, rock hard in the summer and drenched for weeks in the winter, and they still survive and keep growing. Thanks for the comment.
Boa tarde Jsacadura, todos os seus videos são um autêntico tesouro! Relativamente aos seus Kiwis amarelos, qual o nome da sua variedade de fêmea amarela e qual é o respetivo macho? Grato pelos seus ensinamentos!
Ainda bem que os vídeo são úteis. A variedade da fêmea de kiwi de polpa amarela é o Hort16A, com um dos machos que a poliniza (não tenho a certeza qual). Infelizmente, é aquela que foi abandonada na Nova Zelândia (donde é originária) devido à muito elevada susceptibilidade ao cancro bacteriano do kiwi. Por enquanto, tenho tido sorte e a doença ainda não apareceu por aqui, mas sei que as minhas plantas podem morrer rapidamente, se acontecer alguma contaminação (a bactéria pode ser transportada por insectos).
Great advice and I always appreciate the documentation of the graft healing and the grafting methods. I successfully grafted loquat to quince with the chip and T-budding techniques you showed in other videos, as well as to rowan (mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia) by bark graft. Loquat seems to be a very forgiving and productive species, now all that's left is to wait until climate change makes cultivation in my climate reliably possible. For now, it is still a bit too cold in northern Germany. As always I liked your video very much and appreciate all the advice, greetings from Germany.
Thanks for the nice comment! Glad my videos helped your grafting efforts. Good job! It's a shame that loquat doesn't resist the winters in Germany. It's one of my favorite fruits. As you say, something to look forward, regarding global warming (just kidding 😊 - most of my other fruit trees would stop producing for lack of cold hours).
Thanks so much; your videos are very thorough and encouraging making me want to try it. I have many seedlings that have volunteered and am going to pot them up and buy scions, thanks to you. I wonder where you live?
I have a lot of loquat trees in my garden all from seeds and none give "small fruit nor acidic fruit". They have always a much better taste than those from the store. And the truth of one year is not the truth of the following year (about quantity and fruit size on each tree). Concerning the delay between the seed germination and the first fruit it is 4-6 years as an average not 8-10 years. So I am not convinced that grafting these trees is interesting.
I have several trees, some wild cultivars grown from seed and many more grafted. Some wild seedlings are wonderful. I have a couple of them which are very good, but they tend to be the exception. Most wild trees are great in terms of true "loquat" flavor, but with very thin pulp and huge seeds. The ones from the store can't be called loquats, as far I as I am concerned. I have never bought one that I liked. They tend to select cultivars that don't get brown spots from the sun (which non educated buyers reject) and in that selection process they lost all the flavor. Now, combine the true "loquat" flavor with a thick pulp (>12mm) and small seeds and you have a great cultivar. Imagine a apricot thick pulp with excellent taste. Those are the one's I graft and they are worth it!
@@JSacadura "Very thin pulp and huge seeds..." + Comparison with apricot... There is nothing like that and I wonder now if we are speaking about the same fruit... The seeds in my fruit have always the same relative size all together (between 1 and 4, sometimes 5). Relatively to apricot it is difficult to compare since the form is different (sphere for loquat and "flat" for apricot) the taste has nothing to do, I don't eat apricot. Let's say that the radius of the seeds is a third of the entire fruit. About the same as the ones cultivated and sold in Spain, Morocco, Algeria... The ones from Spain are generally not good, often, not always. 2024 was excellent in matter of production among my 20 trees and among my neighbours. This is not always the case, but the climate in winter is the cause, not the absence of grafting. ..
I meant relative to apricot compared with the pulp size versus pit size. And the seeds of my best loquat varieties are much smaller than the wild ones and usually only 2 or 3 in the best cultivars.
Check some examples of what I'm trying to say in this video (min.4.30 onward) - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6ikVpW8aXVI.htmlsi=K7AFCs8gsNT5COtr&t=296
Quince is a good rootstock for loquat. I have several grafted on quince and they are excellent in low quality soils, quick to produce fruits and keep the tree much smaller. The only negative is that they reduce the live span to around 15-20 years instead of the 30-40 years a loquat tree usually lives. Good luck with your grafts.
Another excellent video - thank you. I used the modified cleft graft on a few small scions I had from a newly discovered apple variety last year. 100% success, so there are now 8 of these trees in existence, not just the single old tree we found. Your videos are a great reminder to someone who doesn't graft regularly 👍
Inspiring and amazing grafting video as usual, thank you ! Would you please share the loquat variety of the fruits you cut at the end of the video ? They seems to be just perfect, quite big, super color, many juice
The one I am cutting in the video is Algerie aka Argelino. To me it's one of the best, since it has a very thick pulp, medium pits and almost doesn't lose that "loquat" acidity and flavor of the wild cultivars when it ripens, unlike Tanaka (bigger pulp, gorgeous color, but as it ripens loses a lot of flavor, only sweet remains).
