Using the Bridge Grafting Technique your damaged fruit tree will remain healthy and productive, otherwise, depending on the damage, it will stop growing and can even die. The Bridge Grafting Technique can be used to save a fruit tree that was damaged by animals, by restoring the flow of sap and rebuilding the vascular tissues, bypassing the affected area. If you like the video or have any questions, leave a comment and I will try to answer as many as I can. Thanks for watching and if you haven’t already, consider subscribing, to support the channel.
Hello, i'm a fruit variety collector and grower from Estonia. I have a goal to preserve old and endangered varieties. I have a small orchard, while watching your videos i have seen some intesting and unique fruit tree varieties what i would like to try to grow here too. Are you open to exchangig grafting material? Best regards Jegor
@@BBDoesTheThing It does not need to be from the same tree. The same variety will have the best graft compatibility but most apples will graft together with good success.
This is absolutely fantastic ! I never would have thought of this. This is the most useful channel on grafting on RU-vid ! Your simply the best. Thank you so much.
After watching this video, I used this technique on a very young tree. A rabbit had nearly bitten through the trunk! 2 weeks later, the tree is still alive, and the branches are strong with green leaves. Here's hoping the tree fully recovers, and stays healthy!
I would love to see the result of this bridge graft after one or two years, because I never had before. My own bridge grafts didn't succeed, so I am very interested in learning from successful bridge graft examples.
If you search for "Bridge Grafting Historic Fruit Trees " you`ll see some pretty wild results in the second half of the video. Never knew that was possible either
@@roiq5263 My dog rolled over on his back and chewed on a young sapling fruit tree as a toy. Last week I did a bark graft to install another branch below the wound. I did not join the two ends as this is a graft of another species of fruit tree.
I did this on a young Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus, about 4 inches in diameter at ground level) when it got girdled with a string weed trimmer. It worked so well. I put 3 bridges on it. The weed whacking 'accident' happened in the spring, when the bark was slipping well. So I cut a young branch where it joined the tree. Then I cut slivers of the branch and inserted them like you did with the twigs. It healed up so fast and after a couple years it was hard to tell where the damage had been. Unfortunately, after a few years of rapid growth, the top of the tree broke off in a storm, and the tree is taking a few years to die because it won't use a side branch as a new leader. But that bridge graft trick worked so well!
Hi. Sorry for what happened to your tree. Thanks for the interesting comment and sharing of your experience with the bridge grafting technique. Fortunately, rabbits and other creatures have only damaged young trees, so I don't need to do several bridge grafts to the same trunk, but in larger trees its a must to be effective.
Sir, you don't know, How much I love your videos.. full of information, with so much calmness.. it's like, I am meditating. U taught me proper way of Grafting. Thanks a lot ..
Omg this is amazing. I never know you can fix this damage wide tissues. In the past I have been using wood wax, iv organic paint, electrical tape to cover the long wound. You are so talented. Thank you for your educated us. Using nail will not harm the tree?.
We planted an Ornamental Crabtree "Profusion" last year and tied it down with rubber covered wire attached to 3 separate stakes to keep the tree stable in bad weather here in Nebraska. I removed the stakes today, one year later. Ooops....the rubbered covered wire was tied way too tight in 2 spots which left the outer bark bare and imprints of basically tree strangulation. How can i doctor these two wounds? Will moss do it? If so, how long do I keep the moss attached to those two areas on this beautiful tree?
Thank You so Much for the information recently lot of my trees suffered due to unusual early snow and I ended up loosing lot of branches this will help me recover many of them
I have seen all your videos countless times. I like how detailed, easy to follow and understand. Your videos are interesting well made and with good captions. Can you show how this graft healed in future videos? Thanks and regards, from Malta.
Glad it was helpful! I realize many people are not familiar with this technique and sometimes cut down a damaged tree because it stopped growing or doesn't produce as it used any more. I'm glad I finally had the time to make this video.
Thank you I learned a lot from your videos last year I did some fruit grafting and it was a success thanks to your videos, I'm doing more grafts this year just because it's fun and easy.
Wow, thank you! Although most basic techniques are everything most people will ever need in their home orchard, I really do feel that my viewers are ready for a few, more complicated, grafting techniques, that are useful from time to time. Thanks for the comment.
A ideia é precisamente alertar para a possibilidade de salvar uma árvore já instalada quando é danificada por qualquer razão. Nem toda a gente conhece este tipo de enxerto.
I had never heard of this, very fascinating! I would love to see the results and I’ll definitely try it on some trees that need help. It was very relaxing and educational to watch and I like your accent.
Thank you for this video, I wish I saw it sooner because just a month ago I cut down a tangerine tree that was damaged while mowing the grass and didn’t do anything for over 2,5 years and I gave up on it. I know what to do now if need be. Thank you!
Thank you, the video is very good and clean, easy to understand . now I will try on 4 of my trees that were planted last summer and hope It works for the trees. The trees are still dormant the damage is severe " here's hoping" Thanks again!
Fantastic! I just purchased a home with eight neglected apple trees. One of them has a very, very large scar with rot, near the base of the tree. The trunk diameter is approximately 10 to 12 inches at this point, and I would estimate over half of this is bad. Right now, based on your video, I would think I would need a large number of grafts to bridge that scar. Have you ever repaired this extent of damage using this technique before? I feel I must do something- I doubt the tree will survive another two seasons based on its overgrown size, proportions, and shape- it leans significantly away from the scar as well. I'd love to see an update to this video and hear your advice on this!
Awesome video, very very interesting! Can you make a follow up video so that we can see how did it work and how does this effect the tree? I will appreciate it keep up the excellent work on the channel!
I would like to know how you determine how many sions to put on the wound of the tree. My young Poplar tree has lost close to half of its bark around the base of the trunk. It is in serious condition. Leaves had begun to die. I hope that with your detailed and excellent video, I will be able to conduct the surgery-- the bridge graft. Thank you so much again! Best video I have seen so far on this topic! Keep it up!
Great video. Copied the approach exactly for my lemon tree after accidentally girdling it with vaseline to stop ants / aphids. Two things... you forgot to remind us the keep the scion the right way round (although I guess for a bridge graft this is ok?) And I wonder if the bevelled side should face outward to be against the bark? Thx 👍
I would never have thought to save a tree in this manner. Always impressed with Mr. Sacadua's knowledge and skill. *edit* It would have been nice to see a tree that had been repaired a few years earlier to see what the scarring and regrowth was like.
I had older trees with this repair that were replaced so, sadly, that means no results to show in the video, for now. Fortunately, in recent years, I have been able to keep the creatures from damaging my trees, so I had no need to use the bridge graft until recently. In most cases, over the years, the branches grow wide and cover most of the area and some grafts might even start to be difficult to see.
Very interesting, thanks. I have an apple tree with the Scion growing strongly and the rootstock hardly growing at all. I think I shall have to pile up earth around it so that the Scion grows on its own roots, or else I shall have to grow another rootstock alongside, bare the bark of both, bind them together and hope they graft. I would appreciate your advice.
Very vigorous varieties grafted to slow growing rootstocks can end up breaking at the grafting point. I probably would plant a more robust rootstock and use the last procedure you described (approach grafting) to reinforce or replace the support for the variety.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful video,the question is, can i do the bridge graft on a olive tree and in what Mounth can o do it,i'm in south Italy,thank you very much.
Thanks. This technique can be used in most trees, olive trees included. The bark should be slipping with an active flow of sap so, spring is a good season to do it.
I noticed almost all of your exposed cambium is placed against the bark. When you split the bark is the cambium on the bark or the wood? Or does it matter on the age of the tree or time of year where the cambium is attached?
Sorry. I missed your question. The cambium layer is very thin and you can find it on the wood when you lift the bark. That's why all the scion cuts are always placed against the wood.
Thank you very much for your videos. They're very informative and helpful. I do have a question though, can a sucker that is growing out of the rootstock be used to graft onto the grafted section of a tree? I have a lemon tree that has a lot of damaged bark around the trunk, but it is still growing, just a lot slower. I've noticed that the rootstock has started to send out new shoots and was wondering if these could help save the tree?
Sorry, As I said to other viewers - It will be a while before I can show the results. I had older trees with this repair that were replaced so, sadly, that means no results to show in the video, for now. Fortunately, in recent years, I have been able to keep the creatures from damaging my trees, so I had no need to use the bridge graft until recently. In most cases, over the years, the branches grow wide and cover most of the area and some grafts might even start to be difficult to see.
I have similar damage from a deer scrape on a 1” thick apple tree, the damage is only to the thin outer layer of the bark. Because the tree is so thin, would a patch graft from a branch work better to fit inside and cover the damaged area for faster recovery or is the bridge method still preferable?
Should I do this right away or seal the tree wound and wait until spring? I just had a 20 year old sassafras tree damaged by a dog and I want to try to save it.
