Hi folks,
I am new to grafting. But it is heartening to see my early attempts at creating a "franken fig tree" becoming successful.

I have a fairly mature desert king tree that produces around 400 fruits in 1-2 weeks of late July.  My idea was to sacrifice a few branches of this tree to other varieties so as to get a continuous crop through Aug, Sept and possibly October.

To this end, I have grafted 8 different varieties on this tree. I dont know how they will all do but several are reputed to do ok in the Seattle area where I live.

I am very encouraged to see several of these grafts starting to "take"! Some of the grafts that are only 15 days old are further along than ones that are a month old. Nothing has obviously died yet.


 

     

The last one is an apple (also multi-grafted on a dwarf rootstock sucker that bore lots of inedible fruit last year.

They are looking good, Ramv. Some grafted varieties are quicker to break bud while others take longer. It's perfectly normal.

The biggest problem you may have is balancing the growth of the different varieties and of the other branches of the original Desert King (there are so many that you have to keep an eye so they don't remove all the sap from the grafted branches). Pinching and pruning will have to be used to achieve that goal.

I also multigraft apple trees (mainly as backups for some varieties). This one has 7 varieties. They were all grafted last spring and they are already blooming. They probably will give me some apples to taste this year.