My grafting tool 34$ on ebay ,got here today. I made the first 2 grafts on cuttings that I am rooting. The tool is first rate worked very well . the graft was tight. I have ordered 10 brown turkey trees from coral-gopher on ebay.They are one year old bareroot trees,very nice if you like brown turkey. They will make great root stock.Rex

Post the link or item num for the auction I would like to see what you got.

i bet its the same grafting tool i got.

I am envious! show us your pictures..so I can drool...

I grafted roots to cuttings and they grew strong.. even with the attack of the nasty gnats, they survived, while others I am still crying here, not sure the cutting will survive, 2/3 of the skin was eaten away... whereas the ones I grafted strong roots  are doing better.   so, having a tool like that can be a savior against these new root feeders.

I had never heard of grafting onto a cutting until this year. I've had good success grafting onto in-ground or potted trees in the spring but grafting onto cuttings had never crossed my mind. Seems tough enough to get cuttings started without adding the delicate element of a graft. What kind of success are you guys having with this?

Grasa, can you tell me more about grafting roots onto a cutting? Have you started a thread on this elsewhere already? It sounds like a great possible short cut to getting certain cuttings started.

Hi, I will let you know how they come out,I dont know how to make a link but look under grafting tools on ebay. Rex

Hey Oldvt if you want to list a link just go to the page and copy and then paste the link at the top of the search engine you know HTTPS://BLAH BLAH BLAH ETC you can paste it here or any other page or email etc 

I've done many many grafts of many things (thousands) and I'm a sucker for every new gadget that comes along and I've bought various grafting tools but have rarely used any of them more than once, maybe twice.  Some people that have tried things such as the omega graft said that the resulted in weak graft unions.  I see commercial grafting machines for grape nurseries using something like an omega graft so maybe it's suitable for some species (plus grapes are staked).  I have two Tina knives (in case one gets dull during a lot of grafting) and that's what I have found to work great for me for bark grafts and whip and tongue grafts, the ones I use extensively. 

Please take some photos of your grafts and let us know how they work out for you.  I wish you nothing but success!

Is this the one you are talking about? It's 34$

http://www.ebay.com/itm/High-Efficiency-Fruit-Tree-Professional-Grafting-cutting-Tool-with-2-blades-/261027325457?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc670e611

Grasa,
Please show us a picture of the graft union between the root and cutting. Probably you can do that when you are going to re-pot the grafted plants.

Yes, that is the tool.Rex

how thick a caliper would that tool work on?

I picked up this tool at Lee Valley in Canada .
I tried a few grafts and they all failed . That was summer 2011 .
This year I tried bud grafts , the way Axier does them , and they all have healed to the point where you can hardly tell its a graft . Next spring I will cut above that node and they should branch . With the bud graft method all you need is a sharp knife .

John

John could you post a link to the way Axier does them?

My root stock is here and I grafted 3 M Falcon and 3 Orourke on to root and put in the green house. Rex.

Rex. Please share some pics with us as they make progress. Grafting has become a new passion for me.

Hi Bill, I will get pics up soon, Rex

Hey Rex, Which grafting tool did you get? Was it the Omega grafting tool? I bought one and have had no success with it. Hope you have better luck. One thing I have found with doing grafts on figs is to keep a bag over the scion and graft union to minimize any drying out. You can see my post here....
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/My-Fig-Tree-Grafts-4710950?highlight=grafting

OctopusInc, here's the link to Axier's grafting document:


http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/English-Translation-of-Axiers-How-to-Graft-an-Adult-Fig-Tree-4504717

Excellent grafting guide by Axier. I have used his techniques on Plums, Persimmons and Apples with great success. 

Navid.

The tool will do omega or V, , I can not do a graft by hand anymore, so its the only  way I can graft. I put grafting tape to hold the graft, put grafting wax on the cut ends and put a baggie on top. I will try to get pics up soon, Rex.

Surprised to see you grafting presently in zone 4. I have grafted a lot of different plants, but only a couple figs. Normally grafting would be done just prior or shortly after breaking dormancy.  When I first started grafting I think my biggest error was grafting too early on dormant plants. Interested in the results at this timing, but if you folks are successful  I will be doing it then air layer it off later as I think I am a better grafter than rooter and I could get multiple scion off a single cutting.

I have my figs in the greenhouse, it stays 65 to 75 most of the time so I still have figs growing, Rex

Another reason I need a greenhouse. I have fresh cuttings now, but only plants entering dormancy. Thanks for the explanation.