Very very nice pictures they are worth a 1000 words and more.

Thanks Nelson
Beautiful and informative pictures.

I was thinking that with so many good varieties and small spaces even for potted plants, I may have to start 2-in-1 pot strategy rather than budding. unless I find that the two root systems have adverse effect on each other. One good effect will be that it will be keeping both varieties to manageable sizes (dwarfed by sharing resources).

Of particular interest is the way the slips the scion bark off the donor branch.  Instead of cutting out the wood, then peeling the bark as is often done on other trees, he has simply cut out a patch of bark without any wood at all. 

Very interesting, and one of the most simple grafts to make.  Before tape was used I grafted pecan trees  with string and beeswax.  Carrying around a little melting pot (a converted coffee can with a bail and an insert, fired by charcoal) and brushing wax over every graft was tedious, but it worked.

Now if that fellow will just wrap take around the grafts he missed
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Wonderful photos, thank you for posting them! 

A long time ago on Gardenweb, there was talk about grafting and I gave it a try but it failed. If I remember correctly, there was a discussion about what time of year to remove the buds from the scion, because the bark and bud would slip right off but only at a certain time of year. It's been so long I don't remember the details, but I remember the bark and bud did indeed slip right off, and I made the T-shaped cut into the branch and slipped in the bud, and taped it with electrical tape. HOWEVER, I did not prune off the end of the branch as shown. Maybe that's why my grafts didn't work?  Also, the scion wood was a bit smaller than what the man in the photo is using, and the branch I grafted onto was not nearly that big. 

Spring is almost here and I may have to try it again. How exciting!

Good Daughter in the fig its history and culture book it is says to do it during winter when its dormant. However its been said that during summer is the best time to Chip Bud a fig tree. Fignut did a nice writeup on gardenweb awhile back and axier did one as well. The pictures above were grafts done onto a seedling rootstock.

Akram if you want a seedling to try some grafts let me know I should have some available this summer. I also had a North Carolina Dark & Lyndhurst white in the same pot both with the same shape but killed both by over fertilizing it a couple weeks back another lesson learned for 2010.

Would it matter if the bud was grafted onto another F. carica that is not a seedling? I tried grafting a couple of different buds onto my Green Ischia that is espaliered. Thought it would be neat to have two or three different figs on one tree.

GoodDaughter:
It should not matter that your tree is not a seedling.  All that is important is that you graft fig onto fig.  You can end with more than one variety on one plant, or you can change varieties. 
Ox

Great Pic's & good find. Thanks Nelson.

In climate such as Florida, grafting would be beneficial by choosing a rootstock that is more resistant to humidity such as Ficus Benjamina. Ira condit mentioned that this was practiced successfully. However not sure how the compatibility would be over the years, knowing that Ficus Benjamina is an evergreen and wants to keep on growing, while the F. Carica is deciduous and likes to slow down and go dormant in winter.

Bass;
There is the other practical consideration.  Citrus grafted on sour orange will make a thriving tree but you have choices.  If you plant deep the graft may set roots and grow, depriving you of the benefit of the rootstock.  If you plant high the graft may freeze and the suckers that grow back are sour orange. 

A grafted fig might have the same result, given that figs so readily sucker.  Given that choice I would plant deep, knowing that if the top should freeze back I'd still get figs from the suckers that came back. 

Brother has a Valencia orange that was planted deep.  It has frozen back, or partly so, several times.  It is (last time I saw it) twenty feet high and produces bushels of oranges just W. of Houston, Texas where freezes are not unusual. 

All in all, I suspect that we will come out ahead by planting one variety of fig after another until we find those that succeed in our climates. 

I think of these photos are from Turkey.l writing from turkey