So for those that didn't see my previous video.. I grafted Smith onto a 20 gallon Brown Turkey rootstock and saw incredible results in terms of growth. 255 inches of growth in only 4 months!

Yesterday I chopped that tree down. Why?! Because shortly after my Smith graft took.. I air layered the trunk of the rootstock, and now I'm left with another stump for grafting next year!! I also decided to do the same thing to my 20 gallon Kadota tree. I air-layered off the branching, and will use the rootstock next spring for grafting. These WERE my two largest trees:

 

Congrats on your grafting and air layering success.
What grafting methods were successful for you?

@ Ross, when you say matching up the diameter, do you mean cleft, saddle, or whip & tongue? Great video btw, crazy growth for a first year graft and you've inspired me to graft onto some vigorous brown turkeys I have sitting around. I also might have to try that air-layer on a few of my potted trees that I feel are a bit too tall to bring them down a foot or so

Stephen Hayes calls it the saddle graft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UC5Dr3tWDc

Mine is the reverse of that. Instead, the scion is the male and the rootstock is the female.

Stephen Hayes is the man!, glad someone else here knows of him,his methods are shown on apples and pears but the Grafts are the same and principles still apply.Ross those are some real good results,really shows that the graft you did had real good cambium contact so your BT did its job as a root power house to pack energy into the scion.Ive had good results with saddle graft(learnt from Stephen) on apples,it's a really good graft in terms of cambium contact-lots of cambium to match up but I think that makes it fuse all round really well and makes for a good strong graft because the weight is all downwards and the wood is fusing on both sides at the same time

Very informative. I might be ready to try a graft one day.

Thanks for the reference I will definitely have to give this a try

Thanks for sharing through your videos. Really enjoyed the detail of the up potting vid. Unbelievable growth on that grafted fig! I have been interested in trying grafting. Its encouraging to see growth like that! When is the best time to graft?

Meg, 

The best time is the beginning of the spring. You want temps over 70F.