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I started grafting persimmons and pawpaw yesterday, the weather is warm enough and some fruit trees are about to bloom. 

This is a unique graft method I use. I call it the Z graft. As you see it creates a nice graft union that holds together well. It works great even when the scion wood and the rootstock are different size. 
After this I tie it together with a grafting rubber, then I seal the whole thing with special wax. two weeks later you can see the results.



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Looks a lot like a whip and tongue, but for non-identical diameters, which would often call for an offset wedge graft. Nice.

This does look like a strong graft indeed. I'll have to give this a try. Is the cambium of your rootstock exposed the entire distance on the left side where your scion is meeting it or just where your notch is?

I expose just enough cambium on the rootstock to match the width of the scion. I have even grafted wide scionwood to a thinner diameter on a rootstock with good success. 

The cambium matches on both sides. 

I like it Bass!


I appreciate your comments on having success with this graft when you have a rootstock with a smaller caliper than the scionwood. In fact I had been wondering if I could do something similar with the cleft graft. Should work huh?

It looks pretty effective.

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