Thanks for posting this! Curious to know how it's working. Do you have any photos of one you've had success with before? We're trying to propagate an old sour cherry tree (maybe 30 years old or more) in the Denver area that my grandma had for so many years. It's still producing fruit and produces a lot of suckers. The suckers look so healthy! But does that mean anything? Some of them are volunteer bushes about 10 ft from base of tree. I know we could start new, but this tree has history and it would be cool to preserve a piece and share it. What to do with those suckers besides cut them...
Well, these 2 both did well this summer; now, they can still abort if winter is to hard so while early indicators are all good it is too early to declare definitive success. You absolutely can graft onto your suckers, and you can try and take some as root cutting to use for future grafting, just like I did with apples in this weeks new video!
It would be more helpful if you could do an extreme close up of the grafting of scion wood. The distance between you and the camera is too great to really visualize what you are doing.
Thanks for posting this! Curious to know how it's working. Do you have any photos of one you've had success with before? We're trying to propagate an old sour cherry tree (maybe 30 years old or more) in the Denver area that my grandma had for so many years. It's still producing fruit and produces a lot of suckers. The suckers look so healthy! But does that mean anything? Some of them are volunteer bushes about 10 ft from base of tree. I know we could start new, but this tree has history and it would be cool to preserve a piece and share it. What to do with those suckers besides cut them...
Well, these 2 both did well this summer; now, they can still abort if winter is to hard so while early indicators are all good it is too early to declare definitive success. You absolutely can graft onto your suckers, and you can try and take some as root cutting to use for future grafting, just like I did with apples in this weeks new video!
It would be more helpful if you could do an extreme close up of the grafting of scion wood. The distance between you and the camera is too great to really visualize what you are doing.
Sure, the more detailed explanation of that specific step is in the previous video that I mentioned, this one was intended to be more of a quick note.