Tom, you are an amazing teacher! You are clear, detailed, & easy to understand. You should take up teaching this to others, How to video, or even a book. You have a lot of knowledge. Thank you for sharing.
I really respect your decision to release all of these videos #opensource for everyone to enjoy and share the knowledge. I really appreciate the hard work you have put into these amazing videos. This is the stuff they should be teaching in school, then people would have more access to fresh free delicious fruit, share grafts and air layered rooted plants with neighbors and friends. Cheers
Dave, it is refreshing to know there is an instructional person allowing the novice to learn from their experience. Your prompt response to my question (Loquat seedlings) is to be commented. Thanks.
Gosh Tom.... you are the best teacher I have seen on RU-vid, period. You need to like go on the road & or write a book or video for sale. People will listen to you. Your are detailed & very clear. You are awesome! Thank you again for your knowledge. I wasn't kidding about the above! :)
Black electrical tape can be used to cover the grafting point as well. It keeps the air out (around the graft point), secures the grafting area and stays warm - encouraging good graft growth. Overtime, the electrical tape with simply fall off. No rubber bands or grafting paste are required.
Gosh Tom... you are an awesome teacher. You could go on the road with this. I would pay to see you in person. You are made to teach! Extremely detailed & clear. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You should write a How To Book on this!!!
JUST WANT TO SAY DAVES VIDEO HAS TAUGHT ME SO MUCH I NOW UNDERSTAND WHAT A ROOT STOCK AND SCION ARE..I JUST NEED TO FIND OUT WHERE TO BUY THE ROOT STOCK SO I CAN START TO GRAFT.
Yes you can graft it over. It is more than likely a rootstock variety if it is that sour acid in flavor. Citrus in California is very regulated at this time due to the Asian Citrus Psillid quarantine. It is illegal to graft non certified citrus in the entire state of California so if you want to graft it you must obtain graft wood from a clean registered source. For budwood source try googling clean citrus budwood. For more information on grafting review our posted videos on grafting.
Some rootstocks are propagated by seed, some by cuttings. Rootstocks are selected for attributes like anchorage, disease resistance, dwarfing ability, etc.. Fruit varieties are selected for timing, appearance, and hopefully flavor. Not all fruits would do well on their own root.
Bradford is a Callery type pear so it will work fine as a rootstock for European or Asian type fruiting pear. I would select P. Calleriana or P. Betufoilia seedlings if I had the option. If you are considering top working an existing Bradford it will work.
Excellent video and thanks for sharing! Just two Questions.... in your experience which is: 1) the most successful grafting method? 2) strongest bond grafting method?
Bing is a variety, it needs another variety for pollination. Van, Rainier or Lapins. Planting another tree would be far easier than grafting. If in California, contact the California Rare Fruit Growers.
Hi Tom, the video was very well done. I am planning to graft an apple tree on to rootstock this spring and was wondering if the third and last method would work best for my situation. I ask because the tree I gathered scion wood from was not cut back very hard the previous year, so my 1 year scion growth is relatively small in diameter. As such, I don't think it will match up well with the diameter of my rootstocks. Any thoughts?
Okay I've got questions. Where do I get the information of which varieties that are permissable to propagate? How do you determine which graft type to use? If I have an existing tree that is old but only know it's budding time and not it's variety (an old apple tree) can I determine a variety of sweet apples to graft onto it by it's blossom time? I cannot figure out what variety it is but the apples are only good for cooking and barely for that. I want sweet apples but am limited on space. Can I get scion's for grafting onto an existing tree from your nursery?
Where do the root stock come from, are they seedlings or cuttings? When propagating a fruit tree, why can't the desired cultivar be cut and propagated to grow on its' own roots?
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I have a question about grafting to an existing large orange tree. I have an orange tree that produces an amazing number of oranges, but they are way too sour to eat. They are actually numbing to lips and tongue if consumed. Can this be remedied by grafting? It is such a great producer I hate to waste the fruit
i am new to the idea of planting friut trees and garding is the purpose of doing this is to make 2 treees one so can i do this with a apple tree and a cherry tree and it make some diffent type of friut i will do more research to find the anwser but great video thanks for all the information 5 stares the cheap guy
I recently purchased a Flavor King Pluot, and a Flavor Delight Aprium from one of your dealers here in Utah. I am very excited about these trees and would hate to lose one due to weather, disease, etc... As such, I am wanting to graft a branch or two from each tree, on to the other. Would these grafts have a viable chance based on compatibility, or can this not be done?
UT MountainLife You can do that if you like, both varieties are off patent. They are compatible. The Pluot will need another Pluot of plum for pollination though.
Seems they want to make it hard on farmers with all these monopolies on strains/hybrids with the help of intellectually property patent royalties garbage, but all of that aside. Can people themselves breed/cross their own plums and apricot hybrid trees? Or would that person still be violating the copy write laws? Can we have a #OpenSource Pluot?
You can breed any non patented cultivars, very few are under patent. You will find that breeding is a lot of work, hundreds of crosses and record keeping for each successful cultivar.
I really enjoyed your video. I just purchased m27 apple rootstock online. I will plant it to my ground this spring. When can i graft scion wood onto my rootstock? Thank you once again for your educating updates.
I had some 2 yr old apple trees broken off at the graft by deer. The rootstock began sending up shoots. I want to graft one of those shoots with scion wood from the neighboring tree of the same variety then remove the other shoots. Is this is a procedure best done just prior to budbreak and with a whip and tongue graft? It is out in the field and thus not as friendly as a nursery bed, but I thought I might as well give it a try. Or is it just one of those deals where I am better off ripping out the suckering rootstock and planting a brand new tree?
Meadowlark Farm If you know how to graft you can whip or cleft graft these before bud break or after with dormant stored scion wood. If not experienced with grafting the easiest is to replant new trees
Hey, thanks so much for posting this. I was hoping you could answer a couple questions I have. I was wondering if I am able to graft root suckers (from dwarfed apple trees) that I dig up directly from the orchard early spring, with a dormant scion? One other thing, if my scion wood (macintosh apple) has accidentally frozen for a couple days in an outdoor fridge (probably not more than -1 or -2, I had it turned up a bit too high and that night it was a little too cold), should I be concerned at all? Thanks again!
+Josh Brown Yes you can graft root suckers. Best to dig them out during dormant season and transplant to a container or ground for one season then graft. Grafts will do better on an established root system. Frozen scion wood could be an issue. If you cut into the wood and it looks dis-colored it may not be viable.
+Dave Wilson Nursery Question is: Isn't using root suckers the rootstock, and not the original tree you are trying to graft or duplicate? Wouldn't you be grafting rootstock to rootstock?
When using the side graft can you graft lets say 3 scions from different apple trees on the same tree all at the same time? Or would it be best to wait till one takes before doing the others? Thank you.
When grafting fruit trees to root stock, must you use fruit tree root stock. Can you for example use hardwood root stock with a fruit tree graft. Just curious
I have a Bing cherry tree of some variety i honestly don't know what it is. But it sets very little fruit. I would like to graft on some type of Bing cherry to pollinate the tree. Where can I get the Scion wood from?
Hello Dave, I was wondering can you graft into a fully grown fruit tree? Let's say you have an apple tree and want to grow another type of apple can you take a scion from that other apple tree and graft it into the other..?
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For nursery production purposes bare root grafting is a common practice. If your experienced at grafting it should be equally as effective for home use.
MrWhitetail Be specific with root and scion selections and we can answer you. You can also look to the variety description section in the backyard grower section of our website. Each rootstock description will provide that information
Thanks for the response. I haven't decided on all the varieties yet, but I plan on at least 30 of them. Probably 50-60 eventually so I thought it would be nice to be able to look up compatibility. It might help on deciding on whether to get certain ones or not. I was on your site before and didn't see the information. There is a lot of information there so I must have overlooked it. I will look again.
Hi tom, three year ago i purchased a multiple grafted pluot , unfortunately last year i lost two of the varieties, flavor supreme and dapple dandy, so now i only have left flavor king and flavor queen, can this two varieties be okay for pollination. .?
Hi thanks again, Help... I have a black wallnut root stock , approx 1/4 " dia and a scion wood of 3/8", Could you tell me what type of graft to use please. Many thanks, Barry. From Across The Pond.. U K..
+Evelyn Woodcock Use a cleft graft and back cut the scion to match the smaller rootstock. Make sure to match cambium on the front cut just below the first bud on the scion.
HI Dave i have moved from N. America to Australia & adapting all that I know gardening & cultivation wise, I am curious if you are aware of any book or web site where I can learn the root stocks that are suitable / acceptable as root stock, they use bush lemon here for a lot, but I am curious as to whether or not there are any local trees that grow easily & prolifically with fruit grafts, what is or where can I learn what the criteria is for the tree/source of the root stock. Any help from you are any of your viewers is greatly appreciated. All the best from Eagle Creek Retreat in the Great Dividing Range NSW Australia.
Great video except for the last part about not propagating patented varieties. Monsanto et. al are doing just fine in their quest to restrict our food production rights without outside assistance, thank you.
Grafting is done in spring when the bark begins to slip, with budwood collected when still dormant and cold stored. Two inch is a bit large. Best with pencil size or a little larger.
A couple more questions. Is this how all tress are grafted that we buy? Nurseries do this grow them to the size they are when sold? I tried googling when the bark slips, but I couldn't get a good answer. What is that?
For the most part yes, we field bud in the Spring and early summer. In the greenhouse we can bud earlier or later. The bark slips when the tree starts to "wake up" from dormancy, and the fluids start flowing through the tree. We grow the trees until winter and deliver them dormant. Nurseries then receive them and start to sell them dormant. Hopefully they sell them before they grow too much. Not a good idea to buy a fruit tree that has been in a pot too long.
Intellectual Property rights are a drain on society and make it unaffordable for poor countries to buy the medicine their people need the most. It also cost a lot of tax dollars to enforce Intellectual Property rights and this is just one of the examples. Now days with bittorrent and other p2p decentralized software there is no way to afford the enforcement cost and no way to shut it down either, just like with bitcoin ( the new age digital money everyone is talking about)
People should be paid for their work, and developing new things is work. It's really that simple. The alternative to intellectual property rights is unpaid labor. Why should we demand that people give us things for free?
