Skardu Black, Ischia Black and Pastelliere from UC Davis.

And to think I still have one more branch to play with!

Looking good Frank.
Confident you will be successful.

pretty neat stuff.... good luck with them

looks great Frank.  i will do that to my brown turkey next year

Bill

wow really cool .

good luck

Good luck Frank, Will sure keep a eye on your progress. Please Keep us informed.

Zone 8
Southwest TX

Best of luck with it!  I'm rooting some BTs now but I planned on just 1 variety on its roots.

Good work Frankenfig!

Looks good. Keep us updated on it...

Nice 'step by step' Frank...that first pic looks like a surgical suite...I thought you were retired??...   :)  :)

Well, the whole thing went to hell in a hand basket, as they say.

I checked on it last night to find that the elastic band's placement caused a total and complete fiasco

Because it was placed so high up on the stock branch, it slipped, bunched up  and pulled the 3 scions out of the rootstock. Maybe a bird helped by sitting on it, I don't know.

The scions were still moist, so I plugged them into root riot media instead.

Live and learn....

oh no! I saw this video of Wilson Nursery, where they put brown paper bag over the newly graft, perhaps that is to shade and mae some protection... my huge cutting that I grafted many new varieties onto it, had similar... not all grafts worked, but some look really good, so I put out side for some sunshine..and one of my pet chickens thought it was a treat and pecked the new bud... so, I put it away quickly, now I don't know if it will make it. The pecked tip was a LSU Green and had a gorgeous bud, its leaves were so cute...only survivor from the gnats... so, I hope it makes it.

OK, here's a dumb question from a non-grafter.  (Not to be confused with "grifter", but I digress).  OK, I haven't done much grafting, at least not figs.  But don't you have to get at least some alignment of cambium layer on the grafts?  I mean, don't you have to have some closer contact xylem-to-xylem and phloem-to-phloem for the graft to "take"?

I see your pics at the top, but unless I'm missing a step you did just before wrapping, I don't see you you'd get the alignment of the right tissues.  Anyone?   It does however look like nice surgical precision in what you did.  (And the overall goal seems fun enough... kinda like those grafted trees where people pick all different colors of citrus fruit from a single tree).

Mike   central NY state, zone 5

Mike ...on the type of graft that Frank is doing the entire underside of the bark is cambium, so there is no alignment necessary...with this method you can't miss the cambium layer. As far as xylem-to-xylem & phloem-to-phloem contact, the scion is cut on both sides to form a wedge, so you get xylem contact on one side and phloem contact on the other.

Thanks Vince. To put a fine point on it, it is the cambium to cambium contact that is paramount. This is where the actively dividing cells responsible for the growth of the tree are found.  With bark grafting xylem and phloem are moot to the process.

Vince -- well said -thx

Thanks guys.  I figured I was missing something.  (Still don't see the wedge cut in the photos, but I believe you that it can work).

Mike

What was the donor tree for the grafts?

Andy, it was a Ventura that turned out to be a robust Celeste.

Nice job