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Grafting Work

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Spring

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apples on saskatoons, image 1 of 5
May/26Comment

apples on saskatoons

in the third year with this group many are flowering. dwarfing, precocious, reasonably graft compatible. note the union in the second last photo, kind good. so can you graft apples like this, does it work - well yah...

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z graft everything, image 1 of 3
May/26Comment

z graft everything

I find that most field grafts, unless the scion size and body position is just right for whip and tongue, the z graft is now my goto. when I bench graft, sure whip and tongue. my recent run of sixty different apple...

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apples grafted to saskatoon - Grafting Work, May 2025, ASC-004+9
May/25

apples grafted to saskatoon.

planting apple and pear bench grafts today. around 120 in the first bed, a couple... - Grafting Work, May 2025, ASC-011+6
May/25

planting apple and pear bench grafts today. around 120 in the first bed, a couple more to go. plums and apricots are still in the greenhouse callousing.

grafting season starts, all of our apples and pears are bench grafted in march. a... - Grafting Work, March 2025...
Mar/25

grafting season starts, all of our apples and pears are bench grafted in march. a couple of weeks inside to callous then back to the root cellar until around the start of may. we're a small nursery and I do all the grafting so the limits are mostly what rootstock we grew and time, but maybe five hundred between apple, pear and plum this spring. I just do them in the evenings so on track for about fifty each day, it's fun and I look forward to it every year. field grafting is done later, that's when the real fun starts around end of april through mid may and I have about as many planned for working over old crabapple, pear and wild rootstocks to grow out new varieties and continuing compatibility trials

triple worked graft, image 2 of 3
May/24

triple worked graft

choke cherry rootstock -> toka interstem -> mustang cherry flowering, second interstem -> apricots just grafted. mustang and last photo is sapalta flowering, unlike other plums these...

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apple grafts onto saskatoon two years old. I did these as an experiment with left... - Grafting Work, May 2024, ASC-021+2
May/24

apple grafts onto saskatoon two years old. I did these as an experiment with left over scion wood in july. surprisingly they’re growing ok, but they’re low and vulnerable to deer and rabbits so i’ve lost some. amelanchier alnifolia, or seevice berry, known as saskatoon grows wild here and has some reputation as a pear rootstock, and now I’m discovering a dwarfing apple rootstock. if it survives for 3 or 5 years and fruits that would be a success for me, at minimum it’s a way to grow out scion wood. #grafting

an attractive result, red leafed siberian crabapple on saskatoon. one year old graft... - Grafting Work, May 2024...+1
May/24

an attractive result, red leafed siberian crabapple on saskatoon. one year old graft leafing out. It’s not well known that amelanchier alnifolia has some graft compatibility with apples, I’m trialing it as wild dwarfing apple rootstock. Resistant to apple diseases, grow well in sand, cold hardy to zone 2, dwarfing. precocious? long lived? maybe just for some selection that could serve as an interstem? hey it’s a rootstock that grows delicious purple berries.. #grafting #redfleshedapple

grafting haskap, image 1 of 3
Apr/24

grafting haskap

will it work? not sure, must be possible. I have three maxine thompson varieties, initially tried to root as hardwood but it didn’t respond, maybe a dryer 70-80% perlite mix could do it. haskap roots easily from...

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a little canopy reduction on this siberian crab I planted twenty years ago. I... - Grafting Work, April 2024, ASC-035
Apr/24

a little canopy reduction on this siberian crab I planted twenty years ago. I topped a few larger trees ahead of grafting them over this spring.

b118 rootstocks from our stoolbed. finished apple grafting today, final count... - Grafting Work, March 2024, ASC-036+2
Mar/24

b118 rootstocks from our stoolbed. finished apple grafting today, final count around 300 for next year. This is our second winter taking fruit tree orders so still finding out how many to grow.

bench grafted apples are waking up and ready to plant - Grafting Work, May 2023, ASC-044+1
May/23

bench grafted apples are waking up and ready to plant. #grafting

top working chokecherry this week, image 1 of 2
May/23

top working chokecherry this week

I have so much of it here, working to develop it as a resource with some in house propagation methods. One of my goal this summer will be to use this method to grow out softwood and trial many prunus species and...

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apple bench grafts for this spring. I didn’t count them, should be lots... - Grafting Work, April 2023, ASC-052+2
Apr/23

apple bench grafts for this spring. I didn’t count them, should be lots. There’s a fun selection of cultivars and style of grafting in here. Our greenhouse is still cool during the day so they’re going to callus in here for the next week or so and then go into cold storage until mid May. #grafting #applegrafting

a few apple root grafts from this morning - Grafting Work, April 2023, ASC-053+4
Apr/23

a few apple root grafts from this morning. #grafting

grafting season started today, the snow finally thawed from our heeled in... - Grafting Work, April 2023, ASC-054+1
Apr/23

grafting season started today, the snow finally thawed from our heeled in rootstocks. first graft shown. #grafting #applegrafting

trying a few of these, apple root grafts using a 4”length of root onto a 6”... - Grafting Work, April 2023, ASC-057
Apr/23

trying a few of these, apple root grafts using a 4”length of root onto a 6” scion, the union buried and with this method it’s consider beneficial if the scion also roots. Piece root grafting like used to be very common a hundred years ago when everyone was working with seedling rootstocks. I’m interested in these old techniques and their advantages in a cold climate where full sized rootstocks are preferred over dwarfing clonal options. #grafting

planted our first season’s apple bench grafts today. 12 zone 3 hardy varieties on... - Grafting Work, May 2022...+2
May/22

planted our first season’s apple bench grafts today. 12 zone 3 hardy varieties on full size Siberian crab apple rootstocks. I’ve had them in cold storage for about three weeks and the weather has been nice enough they should be ok. A few more nights of light frost likely, but things are leafing out. The apples in our orchard are just starting to show signs of waking up. #grafting #treenursery #permaculture

frameworked an old apple tree. it’s a parkland I planted in 2004 but never got... - Grafting Work, May 2022, ASC-065
May/22

frameworked an old apple tree. it’s a parkland I planted in 2004 but never got around to pruning, so it was 25’ tall with all the apples up high. Now it’s a #frankentree .. #grafting

Apple on Saskatoon graft
May/22

Apple on Saskatoon graft

In late summer well past grafting season I grafted onto about a dozen small trees, happy to see most are leafing out. Saskatoon is in the Rosacea family with apples and pears and has been used experimentally as a...

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red wonder is one of the varieties I grafted this weekend, haven’t tried the apples... - Grafting Work, May 2022...
May/22

red wonder is one of the varieties I grafted this weekend, haven’t tried the apples yet but they’re hardy to zone 3 and super red so we included them. Might be fun to try breeding with down the road. #graftingtrees #applegrafting

handful of bench grafted apples on seedling rootstocks. these are parafilm with a... - Grafting Work, May 2022, ASC-071
May/22

handful of bench grafted apples on seedling rootstocks. these are parafilm with a grafting rubber, I found this worked well. in the field I would usually tie the graft first, but with handling the wet roots and some smaller diameter material parafilm first seemed better to keep out water and dirt from the union. could have dipped the tops in wax but a small amount of parafilm on the tip was easy enough. By end of the day I had these down to about 90s ea, 30 in an hour includes all the prep #grafting #applegrafting

first apple bud from May 1 grafts appeared. Trees are funny, there’s still a few... - Grafting Work, May 2021, ASC-078
May/21

first apple bud from May 1 grafts appeared. Trees are funny, there’s still a few hold outs around the orchard that are dormant , others had green tips two weeks ago. #fruittreenursery #grafting #graftingplants #applegrafting

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