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Grafting your own fruit trees

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Learned and have grafted fruit trees, but was wondering how many of you graft your own fruit trees?!
Seems like more and more of the antique apple (as well as other fruit trees) varities are being forgotten!
I have 1 80 year old Yellow transparent that I have kept pruned, and it still gives off bushels of fruit
With the cost of trees from growers, limited varity, plant size limits.....I have been grafting all the old orchard, roadside, and abandoned farm fruit trees ( those found to be good eating, cooking, sauce and storage)
Getting long winded here!
Anyway... was wondering if many of you do this ?!
 
my neighbor grafted a seed free persimmon into one of my trees, watched him do it and did not believe it would work but I now have seed free persimmons!
 
I am going to get scions of a Melrose, Orange Pippon and Winsap today, wull use wild crabapple as the rootstock. Have seeds growing, planted last year, from old standard trees to use as rootstock next year
 
Thanks for the reminder. We have an old tree that is getting a bit weary now that we really love the apples on.
I don't know what kind but should find out or try to save it by grafting.
By the way, this is totally off topic but did you ever read any O Henry?
His work was very entertaining.
He wrote a short novelette called The Gentle Grafter. Has nothing to do with fruit but everything to do with scamming.
I always think of that story when someone mentions grafting fruit.
 
I talked to Joan Runkel at the farmers day. She said she could help you learn to "chip graft" as that is done in the summer. She seemed excited that you were trying to save an older variety. I didn't grab one of her cards as I was sure I had one here at the house. I don't. Try using this: [email protected]
 
That is very much appreciated Ian! ANYTHING that saves me time right now is because I am so backed up. I will shoot her an email tonight.
 
Hi I graft my own as needed. I have only 2 apple trees that started from seed in my garden. I moved them then on one one Jonoglod I grafted a red delicious and a gala.
The secret is to cut the scions when dormant, wrap them in wet paper towels and put in plastic bag in fridge to keep them dormant. Wait till your mother tree starts to grow, then do your graft.make sure cambium lines up and paint joint with compound so it doesn't dry out. Easy to bud graft ideally last week in July. Ed Will Oliver Bc
 
I usually do a little bit of it every year. I keep an eye out for small volunteer apple trees, dig them up and move them to where I want them. I have at least three more varieties of apples that I want to get grafts started from: wolf river, rusty coat, and one other good one that I can't identify. I had a long discussion on here with a guy about grafting not long ago. I have some trees with 3 or 4 varieties on them.
 
I used to make a lot of cider, and I would get a lot of number cans from work. Put the cans in the garden at about ground level, fill them with dirt and put some of the pulp from squeezing apples. The next year take the cans out to the old pasture and plant the can like we did in the garden and thin out the little apple trees in the can. Those little trees would grow a lot in a year, then when they were big enough to graft onto, we would get some good quality scions and graft them on. They were coming along nice when we sold the place and moved to Wisconsin.
 
Jim. I'm going to need to talk to you about bud grafting peaches and apricottes.
Ill have about 100 wild plum (dwarf / semi) started for root stock.
I assume they need to grow a year befor I can graft ... they won't be big enough this summer will they?
Grant
 
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