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My Technique of Grafting

Here is my technique, let the pictures describe:

1. Prepare the tools (cutter and adhesive tape / wrap plastic)

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Then, placed the plant in shady area about 2 weeks. 
Hope this techique usefull for all member in this forum. 
Cheers..

Fits like a glove!  I'd love to try this.  I wonder how an English BT and Hardy Chicago would turn out.  Thanks for sharing!

@ FiggyFrank = hope yours can be success. 

I will try this when I get the chance, I have a feeling I will need to become very good at grafting as my space is running out.

Great pictoral!  Please keep us posted in a couple weeks to see the progress!

Suzi

Love the lesson in photo's.

Just plastic wrap works? No fancy grafting tape? I might be able to try it then.

this seems so obvious! why didn't I think of it?  you are a genious. Looks great, fits like a glove. Hope it grafts nicely.  I wonder if there is a better time of the year to do this. We still have  abit of day light here, but will start raining and will be cold, wet and raining...however, if covered with plastic, that rain won't matter, except it will be perfect for mold... hum, I am so tempted to go try doing this.

You grafted this green wood to green wood late in the season?  Would this also work dormant wood to dormant wood? 
Suzi

Similar question: So is it more successful to graft green wood to brown lignified wood (not dormant)?   Green to green (non-lignified to same)?  

What's your success rate with plastic wrap?   Anyone else try it? Maybe do plastic wrap and then foil around it?

I did two grafts today using parafilm grafting tape, one negronne and one VdB, the scion was smaller than the root stock but one side is perfectly lined up on the cambium so it should take still, we will see in 2 weeks, I have it inside, 18-22 degrees celcius so I think it has a very good chance.

@ All:
1. The better way is just try this method by yourself, experience is the best knowledge; most of your questions will be answered by your experience. :)
2. The better result is: dark-green wood to dark-green wood (sory, I dont know what in English), and the same size on diametre.
3. In Indonesia, too difficult find fancy grafting tape or parafilm grafting tape; so I use the plastic wrap and its work.
4. The percentage of this method is up to 90%  :)

@ DesertDance / Suzi:
Yes, I will report the progress of this method by picture 1 week and 2 weeks later.


Forgive me for asking something that may be obvious, and I mean no disrespect, but "Why"?

Is there a benefit to this on Figs?   Normally grafting on apples, roses, grapes, peaches, is done to have a less hardy or sensitive plant on top, grafted to the rootstock of a very hardy or disease resistant cultivar.  Or to dwarf the cultivar. The problem with this is I think if the top isn't hardy, It's just going to die back to the ground anyway and sprout up as the unintended variety. 

I don't see a huge benefit.  I would think you would have to constantly trim out the suckers.  I would try it if I could see a reason.   Fill me in.

Maybe:   To obtain a hard to root variety.

Maybe:   Get a headstart on a variety.

Maybe:   Gain vigor?

Maybe:   I answer my own question?

Many of us fig collectors don't have enough space for all the varieties, so grafting a few varieties on various branches gives us the enjoyment of many varieties. 

Simple!  The suckers would come from the mother plant, and you would always have to trim those out whether or not you graft.

Suzi

Thanks Suzi:

Not a bad reason.   At some nurseries here in Michigan you can find apples, pears, peaches with 5-6 different grafted branches.   I always though that would be dificult to make sure as the plant got older you didn't prune out and lose a variety  here or there.  And they would have to grow different.  I guess with good permanent labeling, this would be an advantage.

Adriatik is not good to produce the Fruit in Indonesia. I often use Adriatik for the rootstock.
I have hundred of Adriatik in pot, so its will be usefull for rootstock (not good to produce fruit). 
One branch of good cultivar (such as Panachee) can be used for 10-15 grafting on Adriatik; so I can produce Panachee so quickly.

Here is my grafting after 2 weeks:

Panachee on Adriatik:

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