any way to fix this issue? this side of the graft came undone when i received it. it's budding out fine and other side is nicely healing. 

anything i can do to fix this? maybe shave some off on both scion and root stock and tape it again? 

 

I think you got your answer.  No graft experts here.  Bump!  Hope you get an answer Pete!

Suzi

Not a expert, but I have grafted a lot of different plants including mulberry. I would just leave it. If anything just wrap it for support with possibly a stake for awhile. Within a relative short time as the diameter grows what appears bad now will become negligible.

I agree, just leave it alone other than support. It will have to heal and grow out however a few don't make it.

from what i'm reading, with whip and tongue graft, if at least one side makes it, it will work. the other side is healed and looks nice. i'll leave it alone as suggested.

Pete,

I was about to say you are the expert in draft.
But I looked at the title again and it says graft.

Sorry, I thought it was a beer thread;)

rafed, i'm good at drinking... wish i know much about growing things as much as i know about beer x)

LOL Pete,

One day I will send you pictures of my liquor collection.
Think figs are bad?


If you can find it, look for La Fin Du Monde.
Ok, wrong topic.

I'd take a wide rubberband and wrap it several times pretty tight in order to snug the gap closed and shorten the time before the gap heals over and is no longer exposed to moisture/rotting. 

Not too too tight, though, esp if it's a robust rubberband: "approximate, not strangulate" (rhyming verbs)

But then, I usually can't leave well enough alone.  "The enemy of good enough is better"

Pete,

Direct sunlight on that baby Budd may cook it. Think you should protect it somehow.

was the graft done last fall ?

Francisco

Hi Bullet08,
Is that a figtree ? Do you want to keep the graft union, or is it temporary for rooting the scion ?
If you want to keep it, I would put two stakes one left, one right . I would tie at the graft level and then upwards twice and more when that tree grows. Do not pull push too strong or you might unseal it .
If just temporary, I would go airlayer ...

francisco, jdsfrance, 

it's a mulberry tree called Noir de Spain.. M. nigra. i didn't graft or rooted this one. it was purchased. it came that way, but the buds are breaking and leafing out as we speak. it's already staked and stable. it's a whip and tongue graft and one side is doing great, but that other side is as you see it when i got it. 

i'm very tempted to just knife it and bind it to see if it will heal. then again, that might just kill the tree. 

of course, other option is to plant it deeper and hope the scion will put on the roots. 

Not a grafting expert, but I pretend to know enough to chime in. Looks like the scion and rootstock visible in the crack are more or less healed, so I'd do what brackish said: pull them together so they fuse as natural growth occurs. Fortunately, mulberries are bigger weeds than figs in my book so I don't see that graft failing since the bottom/right side look well healed.