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Grafting a fig tree with other type of fruit trees?

I've found that grafting fig scions onto another fig plant is more challenging than grafting cuttings from other fruits
like apples onto an apple root stock or an apple mother tree. The most exotic thing I've seen
was a tomato branch grafted onto a potato plant! A straw was used to hold the connection steady.

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Has anyone tried to graft any fig trees while the sap is flowing and the tree is out of dormancy and succeeded?
I tried it twice and failed both times.

@Sas:

Yes... in tropical environment we always do like that...

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Originally Posted by Sas
Has anyone tried to graft any fig trees while the sap is flowing and the tree is out of dormancy and succeeded? I tried it twice and failed both times.


Most of the grafts done here on figs are done while sap is flowing from May onwards.. in fact we should call this,.. budding and both stock and scion are mostly still green. - T and/or patch budding

Here are some  clips from the Internet showing this late spring/summer grafts












Rind or bark grafting with more or less improvments should also be done while sap is flowing
Check Harvey's recent clips on grafting.... one type he shows is exactly a rind/bark graft.
Good luck

Francisco
Portugal


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Thank You

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Wow - that's a horrible article. If grafting resulted in changed DNA, I would expect someone to have done a paper on it - complete with genetic sequencing. Not a "I grafted a fruit onto a different rootstock and it tasted a little different" paper. I mean, he cited "Encyclopedia Brittanica" as one of his main sources. 


I agree. A terrible bogus article.  He really suggests a hypothesis and shows no evidence to back his claim, you could not have made a worse paper. The best example of junk science I ever saw.

Get comfortable; I'm gonna take you down a little trip into Bizarro Land.  In Sacramento, my son & I went to do a little service to an elderly couple and do some top work on their stone fruit and their apples.  He took us aside and told us that he had a fig branch coming out of his orange tree.  It was there when they moved into this house a few years before.  We explained that things like that aren't possible because of the things that we've already discussed in this forum.  He took us over to look at it.  All three of us were on our hands and knees examining it for a half hour, and we concluded, YES, he had a fig branch coming out of his orange tree!  Can anyone explain that?  It was down not too far above the soil.  The "fig" branch never produced fruit as far as I know.  It was a big, healthy, and mature branch.  Three of us saw it, touched it, laid sideways on the ground to get up close, and we all agree that it was real.  There's plenty of evidence that it didn't happen.  But can anyone argue that my conclusion is correct?  Remember, it didn't bear fruit, so I'm not advocating that it's worthwhile, just possible.  

I once visited an overgrown garden where many of the cordoned apple trees had enveloped and grown around the metal fence they were originally trained on to. I have also seen different species of trees growing around and through each other but they still weren't joined directly to each other. Could it have been something similar?

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Originally Posted by TonytheCRFGguy
  Remember, it didn't bear fruit, so I'm not advocating that it's worthwhile, just possible.  


Well if it didn't have fruit how could you confirm it was a fig? It could be some weird sport off the tree. I have blackberry plants that have leaves that look exactly like hemp. I'm afraid the neighbor kid is going to steal it! So unless I saw figs I could not assume it was a fig. Even if the branches and leaves looked exactly like a fig tree, doesn't mean it is a fig tree.

I wonder how far across a phylogenetic tree you can take interstem grafting.  With enough well chosen interstems could you get F.carica to take on a mulberry?  Just curious what would be required....no plans to experiment on my part.

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