Crazy question - Can I graft 3 different figs to one rootstock, If I have three trunks could I root a VDB to one, a LSU Purple to one, and a panache to one?, or some other combo?

I have seen citrus trees with oranges and tangerines, apples with red and golden, so I was wondering if I could do it with figs.

Thx
Danny K
"EL CAZADOR DE HIGO"
Marshall Tx

Yes, you can. But any virus one has, all three most likely will eventually get. It has been suggested that the FMV mess at UCDavis was caused by grafting.

But others produce nice trees faster via grafting. Nana has a very nice thread about grafting scion to rootstocks to get larger trees faster than rooting cuttings. Sorry, I don't have time to find the link.

When space is a consideration, and you want several varieties, this may be the only answer!  JD bought me a fancy grafting tool for my birthday, and I'm looking forward to using it.

I mainly plan to use it for pleaching a living fence around our new property, and maybe making a living table and chair or two, and acreage is sufficient room for my figs and vineyard, but still might be fun to experiment!

My living fence will live no more, as soon as it's reached its destination, so it will not be made from Ficus Carica!  Ficus Benjamina is a real possibility, or maybe Grape Vinus Entertwineus!

Suzi

Lots on this posted in the past.  Search the forum for COCKTAIL.

Thisethos is often called a "cocktail" tree, although I have heard it referred to as "orchard" tree as well.

Yes. See Axier  This also shows how to convert your Brown Turkey tree into something useful.

Axier's grafting in English;

great article

Thx
Danny K
Marshall Tx

Wow!  nkesh099 What a great contribution to this site!  The acreage on which we have made an offer (which we will probably lose to investors AKA the big boys), has so many old trees, and one is a dying fig that I would love to revive in this manner.  

This is my fancy grafting tool that I asked for, and got on my Birthday!
Suzi

Suzi,
Great tool!
There's just something about a lady with tools, LOL

Danny K
Marshall Tx

Suzi, I have done nothing. It's Axier who should get the recognition here by enabling us to have access to his published work on multi-grafting. I just attached its pdf file that was, I believe translated into English by Axier's son, Paul.

Navid.

I have 3 Brown turky fig trees and one Celeste. Here is my situation two Brown Turky carries abundant crop although not very big but all rippen and if left on the tree to fully ripen it is moist and tasts sweater than honeywith nice aroma. The THIRD brown Turkey and the Celeste carry medium crop but the figs are big and when it ripen it is dry and tastes like rubber or no taste. All these trees are 3-4 years old and extends to 6-7 feet. They are in big pots holed and planted in a raised bed.
I am very disappointed in these two bad trees, I really spoil my fig trees and hold back no money, time or efforts to take care of them.
My thinking is:
1- Give these two trees another year chance and see what will happen.
2-Cut them and send them to the recycle bin.
3-Use them as a rootstock and graft branches on it from the good trees. If I choose number 3 what kind of tree behavior do I get.
your thoughts are appreciated
Abe

The pix are almost self-explanitory.

I've had fun with a little bit of fig grafting this year, and I look forward to doing some more next year--but with only one exception, it hasn't achieved the results I'd hoped for. I had expected the grafts to really take off and grow much faster than a rooted cutting, and let me sample fruit in the first year. Then, I hoped to air layer the grafted branches and make new plants.

I grafted LSU Scott's Black, LSU Improved Celeste, Panachee, UCR 187-25, Black Madeira, and Violette de Bordeaux onto a UCR 135-15s, using a "modified bark graft" from an online tutorial; all of them "took." (I also tried an experimental graft which proved 100% fatal.) Out of all the grafts, the LSUIC grew very rapidly, produced good fruit, and is currently being air layered. The LSUSB grew nicely, though not as fast, and hasn't fruited. The others are alive but have only put out 3-5 leaves each, and look like they're just getting under way as the season winds down. In other years, my rooted cuttings have grown much faster.

My concern now is how to protect the grafts this winter. It's not unusual to lose some top branches, and usually it's no big deal because even if a tree freezes to the ground, it resprouts from the base. But--if I lose these grafts, that's all she wrote. If you're in an area where there's any danger of frost damage, I'd suggest skipping the grafts. If you really need to save space, you could plant two or three varieties in the same hole, or grow a hedge as some members have done. But if you rely on grafts and something bad happens above the union, you'll have to start all over.