Rewton,
I would graft to established rootstock, either year old plants or cuttings in 1 gallon planters (several months old). Yes, I would also protect the scion from dessication, because that seemed to be the main cause of failure since the grafts and scion were exposed to the room's low RH.

I have one extra Florea cutting that I would like to use as rootstock for a scion cutting.  I have backup rooted cuttings going for both so if it doesn't take I'll take your advice and try again in a year.  Now to practice my grafting technique using trimmings from my neighbor's Brown Turkey.  Who knows, maybe I'll get lucky. 

May I join this thread? This is 'mizuyari'. Please to meet you.

I tried 'graft cutting'. Success rate of 'graft cutting' for researchers (refs. 1-2) and farmers (refs. 3-4)  is more than 80% and below 30%, respectively. What are the chances that  amateur will do well?

Procedure:

1. preparing for scions and rootstocks （1st picture)
Scion：Cucumber, Gino, Narragansett, Pawpaw's Turkey, Seabrook Banana, Smith
Rootstock：Alma, Col de Dame Gris, Longue Daut, Rodos, etc.

 

2. grafting （2nd-6th pictures, performed on Feb. 2-3）

 
 
 
 
 

3. brushing indole-3-acetic acid of 0.04% at the bottom part of the rootstocks.

4. planting grafted cuttings （7th-8th pictures, performed on Feb 4）

 
 

5. keeping between 60 and 77 degrees fahrenheit.

I want to report the current state of the 'graft cutting' about every 10 days. I hope that all of them will not go south and at least one of them survive.

references: (I'm sorry for we have only Japanese web resources. The photographs may serve as a reference.)
(1) http://www.pref.okayama.jp/norin/nousou/noushi/seikaPDF/H18/18kaju-8.pdf
(2) http://farc.pref.fukuoka.jp/farc/kenpo/kenpo-32/32-17.pdf
(3) http://blog.zige.jp/pastral/kiji/426258.html
(4) http://redmountainfarm.blog63.fc2.com/blog-entry-497.html

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Mizuyari,
Welcome, Thanks for posting your grafting procedures and information to this topic.

You should start a new Topic for this information and to document your progress.

With the low success rates for farmers, Why don't they try to graft to root stocks that are already growing?

I read some of the linked information and the reasons for grafting seem to be to use the Roostock's ability to grow in poor soil conditions. Is this the reason for your grafts?

Thanks again for all the information and pictures.

These are awesome pictures.  I agree with Pete, please start a new topic and do update us with your progress. I wish I could read  that foreign language.

Hello, Pete

>You should start a new Topic for this information and to document your progress.

I am sorry. Since I am not good at English, if I start a new Topic, I thought that I can not respond properly. If I can join this thread, I thought that my poor English can be understood from the context of this thread, and I could offer information.

>With the low success rates for farmers, Why don't they try to graft to root stocks that are already growing?

Exactly.

It usually takes two years to grow a grafted plant. But farmers tried it to shorten that period.


>I read some of the linked information and the reasons for grafting seem to be to use the Roostock's ability to grow in poor soil conditions.

For farmers, it is as you say.


>Is this the reason for your grafts?

In my case, I tried graft cutting to raise the success rate of the breeding.

In the case of usual cutting, rooting and budding take place by the stored energy in the scion. On the other hand, in the case of graft cutting, once the union between the scion and the rootstock is formed, rooting and budding take place by the stored energy in the rootstock and scion.

When the scion is valuable, short and thin, I thought that graft cutting can raise the success rate than cutting. This is the reason for my grafts.

Hello, Grasa

Your various grafts inspired me. I will tray to start a new thread.

Either way, Mizuyari, Welcome to the forum!

Hello mizuyari,
Your English is fine. Thanks for the reply to my questions.

Since you are grafting to increase the success rate for the valuable scion, you could grow the rootstock before hand to have active or dormant plants as rootstock.

Pete,

Just skimming over the topic, perhaps the reason your grafts failed was not using a grafting tape or wax? Maybe I'm not seeing everything, but it looks like the grafts are only wrapped in green plant tie. Parafilm or some other grafting tape might help substantially with the grafts drying before the can heal.

Amdersand, that was my thought too (see post #25).  I'm going to give this a try (with parafilm as shown by Mizuyari) once the rootstock is just beginning to push out roots.  One challenge will be avoiding damaging the roots while I am making the cuts for the graft.  Maybe using a vise to immoblize the cutting?

Grasa, look into neem cake I read somewhere online that they use it as a soil.drench in India both for fertilizing and for defeating pests in the soil.

Ampersand,
 As stated in post #17