Hello everyone,

I wanted to showcase one of my first grafting experiences. Feel free to share your own first time grafting experiences & please tell me what you did or didn't like about the video, thanks! Enjoy~!

Very nice video. That tree took off. Nice work ross. The grafted area is totally healed. I grafted a strawberry verte to a one gallon brown turkey rooted stalk in December. Put it in ground and it is full of figs and is bigger then mother tree. Crazy hiw grafting wirks out. Also have BM grafted at the same time on a 5 gallen Celeste. Its alive but no leaves. It just sits there. So dont kow what to do about that. Have a cutting of BM AND IT JUST SITS THERE WITH ONE LEAF LOL. JUST CAN WIN WITH BM. THANKS FOR YOUR VIDEO. AND BY THE WAY THAT IS POSITIVELY SMITH YOU HAVE GROWING. Great work

Richie,

I'm glad you enjoyed it. You'll have to send some pictures of your SV. I'm interested to see the results!

I had a few very similar to your BM. The graft takes, but for some reason the tree doesn't have enough sap to force growth through the grafted bud. My theory is that the rootstock eventually dies because no sap is flowing to any new growth, so the tree naturally gives up on it and tries to put out new growth from the base or a lower bud. I figured taking off those lower buds would probably be the best bet because then the tree would focus its energy on the graft, but that's not the case because the tree eventually gives up on the entire trunk and you've got nothing left.

Good video. Thanks for posting it. So, how many grafts did you do and how many were successful? Did you try any chip bud grafts?

Blackfoot!

Thanks for watching. How's the Imp Celeste I sent ya? I put mine in ground and it's doing fantastic. Even is putting out a few figs for me.

Umm, my first few experiences were not too successful. Luckily that Smith graft was an early one that did end up succeeding. I think my failures had a lot to do with a lack of sap flow to the graft. Essentially the same problem Richie is having above. When that happens the rootstock dries out and the cutting doesn't because it's Parafilmed. I had a large success rate though with them taking. Whether or not they pushed through that's a different story. Tried at least each graft once.. cleft being the easiest and most successful.