no sterilizing the blade, no muss no fuss, pretty interesting 

Thanks for sharing!

He's changing this fig to the variety called Sbai which he got it from a tree that planted by a deceased man. Said this is the best variety in his area.
He adds the plastic bag to keep the humidity up, and the paper bag for the shade. After about a month and a half, he take the paper bag and the plastic bag out, but keep the plastic bonding to keep the wind from breaking the graft union. 

Great, informative video.  Definitely knew what he was doing.  I'm going to try that next year. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the video... i wonder what was the original tree variety that was decided to switch it?

BTW Sbai is a good fig, each fig weighs about 100 grams and has jam like texture (sold fully ripe locally). the skin is already crackrd when sold alot of times.
just thinking about it brings sweetness to my mouth :)

That was fantastic. Absolutely going to try it.

I always thought that you have to put some wax or grafting sealant material in grafting....????  Let me know fig community, would love to start grafting...Thanks !!!


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Armando by Fresno California

Eli, I think he said Hmadi is the original tree and he's changing it over to Sbai. Can't understand palestinian accent too well sometimes.

Grafters can improvise and use whatever is available for them. My grandfather used a the bark from the mulberry tree to use it to hold  the scion into place. and then covered the whole thing with mud and put a piece of cloth around it to keep it in place.

He says people don't like anything but Sbai nowadays so he's changing his figs over to that. :)  In a year it will give fruit but they'll be small.  In 2 years they'll be normal.

Very interesting and informative video. I'm assuming that he is setting these grafts late Winter/early Spring? 

Excellent video!

Thanks for posting and sharing. 

Great video, thank you for sharing, takes the mystery out of the process.........Quick and uncomplicated.
I noticed that this is done when the tree is dormant.....what would the temperature would be there at the time? I live in London so when would be the best time for me to do this?

I just can't stop thinking about this video! I've done an inventory and decided I have 2 larger trees that are going to become something else come late winter. This is exciting. Now I just have to see what comes my way to change it to.

Alot of people around here also graft multiple varieties  to one tree cause lack of land space... too many fig varieites  :)

I would forget what I had and where. I am going to turn 2 brown turkeys into portugese figs.