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Graft, this is what I have been doing....

I have been having mixed results on the success rate. I think that it could go higher if the time I was grafting, was a cooler part of the day. Also, got to make sure you wrap the tape real tight.

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Nice photos!
But.. I would use a shorter scion. 1 or 2 buds at most, it is easier for the rootstock to keep it alive that way.
Good luck with yours!

Also, the whitish clear tape snugs on there better stretching and keeping all the air out. I bought it on ebay for I believe $2 a roll.
Let us know how it does.

Nice pics!
Although in my teenage years, I did graft some
plums and peaches on almond seedlings, I had
never grafted figs - maybe it is time to try;
at least just for fun.

Thanks Igor, Tami and George. I will try using shorter scions and order the tape today off ebay. George practice, practice, practice, you may get real good at grafting.

Thanks for the additional information!

Bump: Thanks to Igor (Greenfig), I started using smaller cuttings to graft. That may improved my chances a lot more. Also I do need to buy the white tape for grafting. Also, keep the graft from extreme heat. My outdoor grafts got some high temps of 90 degrees and lost 99 pct of them. Note: I am new to all this grafting, so I am limited on giving great advice.  I know, Harvey and Bass do a lot of grafting anyone else...????

I've not tried this as yet either. Might have to give it a go. Thanks Armando for the post and pics!

I graft Japanese maples and have been reading your thread Armando. I am by no means an expert, i had about a 30% take last year and one piece if advice is to make that bond as tight and as even as you can. Also keep the tree on the dry side before grafting onto it. Good luck

Results: I grafted a UCD Davis Col de Dame and a Smith from a generous member to a rootstalk (mission). Looking back, I would avoid grafting directly to the main trunk, try branches next time, I feel that may get mold in the graft and don't want to lose a whole tree. One branch is OK. In the photo the Smith is on the Left and the Col de Dame is on the right, almost budding.

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did you see the really nice grafting shears/tools online?  I saw them from Fiskars and in Europe for grafting orchard trees for around 30 bucks.

I grafted all day yesterday and today, top working or inlayed bark grafts on pecans. This is my full time hobby that helps pay for my fig habit. I will be attempting to graft figs soon as I am rooting some Celeste for stock. Thanks for the results of your work. I use alluminum foil tape for the final rap to reflect the sun and shrink rap the keep in the moisture after the scion is stapled in the trunk and rapped with grafting taps. We are working with some rather large trees. It takes about 20 minutes per tree to put in 4 or 5 grafts. Your work looks really good. We rap the scion in pair film after it is grafted because we can't go back and unwrap so many grafts.

Hi Armando,
On pic 6, the cambium of the scion is not matching the cambium of woodstock on that side - perhaps you did it on the other side.
Your should target that the cut you make on the root stock is just as wide as to allow both sides of the scion to match on both sides of the cambium - I know not easy to do ...

@Armando, Lovely work and very nice Photography :)

JDSFrance: The firs set of pics above was just a sample of what I have been up to. POST 10 is a real graft not a sample......on another project: I looked at a rootstock that I was using a month ago, mold killed it from the previous graft. Luckily it was a tree from the swap meet, didn't lose a good variety.....The mistake I made was when the graft failed, I didn't clean the wound after pulling off the cutting.

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Armando, I don't know much about grafting especially when it comes to figs. I tried to graft a Black Madeira unto a Bursa last summer and failed.
Was not sure why I did it, but thought that I could use the Bursa as a root stock to make it productive after hearing that it might need the wasp to ripen figs.
So is it possible to end up with a new variety perhaps after the fig graft or is the main purpose to save space and produce a similar variety as the scion?
Here's my next question. If it is to save space, what would happen if we allow two newly rooted cuttings of different varieties to grow simultaneously next to each other.
Would they survive in the long term. Did anyone try this?

Grafting figs is only a good idea if you live in zone 8B or higher anything else and it may freeze below the graft union and you've lost your grafted cultivar. that said bud grafts aka chip bud grafts are reportedly great for figs.

Sas, on grafting it's not to create a new variety. I am hoping to get good at this. Little by Little......Someone posted the topic somewhere about having 2 trees in the same pot......I  read just the other day, that you can twist them around each other......Dave: freezing is a problem in a lot of the country.

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