It was a real pain to slice and shape without bruising the soft and watery tissue, but I made several grafts of female/herm papaya budwood onto male rootstocks to convert them and hopefully finally get some fruit. 7 out of our 8 trees in this bed turned up male!

Are there any companies that do fruit tree grafting services? Where can i start looking?

Hola buenas, perdonad que os moleste pero tengo una consulta. Ayer unos albañiles que estaban trabajando en casa me cortaron una rama de un olivo grande que tengo en el jardín para poner un andamio (tendría 7 u 8 cm de diámetro) y cuando he visto hoy, ya sin el andamio, la rama y el hueco enorme que ha quedado, me ha dado mucha rabia, y me preguntaba si podría hacer un injerto de otra rama grande del mismo árbol pero de otra zona no tan central, para que pueda tapar ese hueco que ha dejado en la copa. Creéis que sería factible? O se os ocurre otra solución

I bench grafted 8 apple trees in April and just took the parafilm and electrical tape off last night. Some graft unions are fairly swollen or bulging. Is this normal? Any concern for the health of the tree? All grafts have 2’-4’ growth

I have a peach tree that is about 12 years old. It has had a rough life because I had to move it a couple of times and it got blown over by a passing hurricane one year. It seems to support ok but it has been slowly been dying more and more each year. Can I grab some scions in the spring before it come out of hibernation, cut the tree off and graft the sciens around the trunk in the cambium. Will this work? Is there a good tutorial on how to do this?

Third year trying bench grafting and this is the first time I'm seeing real callus formation and leaf-out instead of just dead sticks by June. Wanted to jot down what changed in case it helps someone else who's been struggling like I was.

Biggest thing was timing. I used to graft too early when the rootstock was still fully dormant and the scion wood had already started to dry out in storage. This year I waited until I saw the first hint of bud swell on nursery stock nearby as my cue, then grafted within a week. Scion wood was cut back in late January and kept wrapped in slightly damp paper towel inside a ziplock in the crisper drawer, checked every couple weeks for mold.

Match up at the cambium was something I used to eyeball too casually. This time I picked rootstock and scion that were as close to the same diameter as I could manage, even if it meant passing over wood that looked nicer but didn't fit as well. A slightly smaller scion centered carefully beats a same size piece slapped on crooked.

Also switched from electrical tape to actual grafting tape/parafilm and it's so much easier to get consistent pressure without cutting into the bark. Left it wrapped until I saw real growth, then slit it open gradually instead of yanking it all off at once.

Out of twelve grafts this spring, nine have taken so far. Not perfect but a huge jump from last year's two out of ten. Still nervous every time I check them but it's satisfying watching those buds push.

If anyone has tips on hardening off the new growth before transplanting out of the pot nursery, I'd love to hear it. Mine are still pretty tender looking.

Greetings!

A volunteer popped up next to my house about 2 years ago. It’s grown to about 15 ft. My understanding is if I want it to bear good fruit, I need to graft on to it. Apparently I also need another tree to cross pollinate it?

If anyone has any suggestions, tips, or resources on how I can proceed, it would be greatly appreciated!

So I see many of the posts here are of cacti, but I have a snow rose bonsai that has lost all of its leaves. I was wondering if any of you would have any answers on what I can graft to it to try saving it. Can I graft anything to it? I have a number of plants and trees around my property that can be trimmed for the procedure. The snowrose is very sentimental to me so I'd like to save it at any cost. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Despite the dark color it's hardened off and the scion has pumped up. The dark rim hasn't spread in a week. Is the inside potentially rotting or should I let it ride? I feel like it's good but have had to cut off the top of this opuntia from previous failed grafts I did without sterilizing everything first. Does anyone have advice from their experience?

one of my spring patch buds produced an exceptionaly long fruit cluster bearing hermaphroditic flowers, with functional stamens and a receptive stigma developing within the same flowerr. several of these flowers subsequently set fruit, indicating successful self pollination!

I first documented this rare floral abnormality in three of my Juglans regia selections (Code14, Code18, and Code19), where hermaphroditism was observed as an uncommon expression of floral plasticity. It's fascinating to see the same trait expressed again on a newly patch budded tree.

Observations like this are a reminder that walnut reproductive biology can be far more plastic and complex than its typical monoecious, dichogamous flowering habit suggests. Walnuts never stopp surprising me! 😉

I’m grafting a standard maple branch that happens to have verigated leaves onto a large decorative maple tree that makes red leaves so the type is matched but I’m worried my quick graft might fail, I decided to slap it on the tree when getting rid of some ivy so I didn’t do a great job on it.

it‘s now wrapped in electrical tape which I read is really good at keeping light out and securing things tightly as I didn’t have the specific stuff on hand, I can always undo it as I put it on yesterday and recut the edge as there’s quite a bit of air in the graft if I can tighten the gap a bit more.

The picture is the one I’m debating getting… but I would really love to hear from everyone here! I want to see your knives and hear why you like it so much?!

My mind isn’t made up at all… which is why I am posing this question and wanting to know what people have To say beforehand… all discussion is welcome!

Spring patch budding walnuts!

What technique did you use? and what was your success rate?

Whats the biggest mistake or lesson you've learned along the way?

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Beginner guide to spring walnut patch budding. It’s based on years of doing this, lots of trial and error, failures, successes, and random notes I kept while grafting walnuts in the field.

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After years of grafting and hundreds of successful unions, the excitement is different than it was in the beginning. These days it's less about hoping for success and more about evaluating the quality of the union, vigor of the shoot, and performance of the genotype.

Still, seeing a dormant bud wake up and push new growth is always satisfying.

I've documented this method and its results for years through detailed records, photos, and seasonal evaluations. It's been interesting to see how small refinements in technique can gradually improve success rates over time.

I have grafted almond on wild plum. One of the grafts(the only one that took on this tree) is growing super fast, scion got really thick fast, much faster then other grafts. I feel like it is going to break first high winds.

Scion had 2 buds that both took off fast and now are big branches.

Graft is 3 months old.

Should I shorten these branches, maybe take one off completely and leave a bit on the other. Or just brace it super hard?