Ken, I can't thank you enough for uploading these grafting videos. I continue to go back to your wedge graft technique video trying to master it. I tried it this Spring on a 4 inch persimmon rootstock with 3 out of 4 grafts that took and it's healing in and growing so vigorously. Thanks again!
I can't believe it's been 6 years since that original video... I watched it when you first posted and started the grafting channel. Keep on keeping on and take care!
Thanks for doing this one. I did that to my only bing cherry tree that the goats ate. I took sions from what they didn't eat. Did your process and I got great a nice tree. Goats got a lot taller and ate off every thing. I replanted one and they ain,t getting over this fence. Thanks for what you do with educating us!!
Thank you for the new video Ken. I’ve been watching your videos for several years. You inspired me to start grafting apple trees for my land back in 2016. I would love to see additional follow up videos of orchards you’ve grafted. I love the beautiful scenery out there
That was very useful to know. About to graft onto an old unproductive cherry tree thats been in the garden for over 40 years... Good to know what i can expect 5 years from now if i get it right. Thanks.
Another informative video thank you. I guess that’s why you should always keep your words soft and sweet, you never know when you might have to eat them.
Great video MR. Coates, I’ve really enjoyed watching these videos. Never knew a thing about grafting or that people done this until I watched your channel. Thanks for sharing
I live in the wisco and grow tart cherries. I am working on crossing coral champagne with some tart cherries. I would like to have a hardy cherry for some 4A
Amazing. I love your explanation of the callused butts and why you need 3-4 but eventually sacrifice to leave the branches you need. I wonder what is your story? Would love a video about how you got into this business and who taught you about grafting and the science behind it.
Thanks for the follow up video. Could anyone answer this question: When you select the branches to be grafted into the old rootstock, do those branches come from younger trees or do they come from newer shoots on the very same old trees? Thanks I suppose another reason for grafting an orchard is to keep up with climate change and being able to select varieties better suited to current climate conditions in each relevant area.
changing varieties is due to market trends. some varieties become obsolete and unprofitable. the graft wood must be "one year old shoots" the age of the donor tree does not matter
Thank you, Ken. Great video. Exactly what I was looking for. Also, I love the term you used, "...not rocket surgery!" A great combination of two metaphors - You should call your channel "Rocket Surgery" . Copyright that name - it's quite unique. 😀
would be nice to come and work and learn about Fruits :) Im from the Westcost of Norway, and i realy want to have a strong cherry tree next to my Artic Plumtree that newer dies :D its probaly 60-70years old.. fall down in a storm, so i cuted it by the stump. Now its huge and have large Torns and changed to small sweet plums
That's so Awesome how You do that. Then the reward afterwards. .. Do You know how long or who started the Grafting of trees like this. I've heard of it but until watching your channel never knew how it was done. Thank You.
I have a lot of sour cherry trees ,I was wondering if you have any advice on what I can graft on them using the sour cherry trees as rootstock .Thank you
Hi, how old is the scion wood? Is it one year old wood, or do you use wood that is second or third year? The scions seem like large diameter for one year old wood. Thanks! We have a ton of wild cherries that we would like to graft with Rainier, bing, & pie cherries... What are your thoughts on doing that? Developing a food forest at Vashon Island Treehouses & Farm, LLC. Near Seattle, WA. Thanks for a great video!!!
yes it is and "must" be 1 year old wood. if it doesn't grow with enough vigor in your location to get 1/2 in. dia. you might consider coming east of the mountains to get your scion wood. it is common for cherry wood to reach 1.25 inches the first year in the Wenatchee Valley. I really don't know if the Rainier and Bing is compatible with wild cherry.. (we put everything on a rootstock) but I think the pie cherry will hook up ok.
Hi. We have a 25ft+ tall 20+ year old cherry tree with a trunk diameter close to 2 ft but branched into 3 trunks, each about 7" diameter. Is it ok to cut the tree down to about 5ft so only the trunk is left then do bark or wedge grafts on that? What's the likelihood of it dying by doing such a drastic cut? I plan to do this just before springtime.
If you cut that old tree that severely it is almost CERTAIN that it will DIE! Even if you dont kill it, grafts will NOT grow on stumps that old! cut back only "ONE" of the trunks in the spring.(if you are in the U.S. do it next March 2021) if the tree is healthy, suckers will sprout from the stump you cut. after they get to be about 18 inches long.. remove those new shoots except for about 6 of them. tie a piece of hay twine around the suckers about half way up so the wind doesn't break them out. if you have a lot of wind, then you need to nail or tie a 2x2 stake to the stump you cut and then wrap a hay twine around the suckers AND the stake to make SURE the wind does not break out your new shoots.. if you thin those shoots down to about 6 as I directed, then by the end of the summer, those shoots will get to be almost 2 inches in diameter. by the FOLLOWING spring (March of 2022) at that time, cut each of those sucker shoots which you've grown, back to about 6 inches long and then "SIDE GRAFT" onto those large shoots with "large dormant scion wood" collect THAT wood in Feb of 2022(if you're in the U.S) and store it in the refrigerator until late March or early April. using this technique, if you make precision cuts and hold your mouth just right, you can expect almost 90% SUCCESS rate. PLEASE watch these THREE videos! the demonstration is being done on apple trees, but the technique is EXACTLY the same for cherries. #1. ua-cam.com/video/72bFkpuRvzI/v-deo.html #2 ua-cam.com/video/Z7h1sUQzJGc/v-deo.html #3 ua-cam.com/video/TkBZZnRnfoE/v-deo.html PLEASE email me in 2023 and tell me all about your wonderful, enjoyable and highly successful grafting experience. Ken @ coatesgrafting@gmail.com
@@allaboutgrafting5120 thank you so much for your very valuable feedback. Allow me to provide more details about the 20+yr 0ld tree in case it makes any difference..... The base of the trunk is about 2ft diameter. Around the 4ft height, it branched to 4 (not 3 as i misakenly stated before) subtrunks that are about 7" diameter each. Around 10 years ago, it was cut back to reduce the size so each of the 4 subtrunks were cut at around 15ft height but pruning paint was not used to cover the ends. As a result, all 4 trunks are rotting in varying degrees. By "rotting", i mean the trunks have softened like cork material on the outer portions of the sub-trunk's body, atleast in one of them. About 99% of the branches start from the shoots that developed from the ends of these trunks so the tree looks like 3 lion tails now(lol)--mostly branchless below the trunk ends at about 15ft. The branches start at around that height mostly from the shoots that developed from the ends of each trunk. The most severely rotting trunk I've already cut down 2 months ago with 2 ft of it left. The rot, as you may have guessed was most serious at the very tip of it where it was soft to the core. The remaining 3 trunks, I'm only really guessing the rot damage of but they do have much more top growth than the one I've cut down which barely had any. They all have some fist-sized "blisters" where sap oozes out from and hardens. One or two of the trunks has significantly less of these than the other tho. The most prolific one has a 3"diameter sized branch growing from it which is where I've grafted my first batch of plum scions to a few months ago at the end of July. Most of them took but the leaves have withered away to coincide with the fall season. That said, given the 3 remaining trunks have rot at varying degrees, is it still better to just remove one (or none since I've already recently cut one down the severely rotted one a few months ago?) ? Or, given the circumstances, would it be more prudent to cut the two most rotted trunks and keep the 1 least rotted one? I was just afraid leaving them longer will give the rot more time to make its way to the main large trunk if it hasnt already done so.
@@jameswalker3416 I ran across a Japanese maple grafted to a Japanese maple This tree is huge with two types of Japanese maple leaves on it. Neat looking.
I watched the video through to see if at some point I had sped up the footage but "nope" its in real time.. so I wonder what you mean by your comment . thanks for watching :)
Grafts turned out beautiful. Great follow up. I am a small grower getting a little larger every year and appreciate this.
Ken, I can't thank you enough for uploading these grafting videos. I continue to go back to your wedge graft technique video trying to master it. I tried it this Spring on a 4 inch persimmon rootstock with 3 out of 4 grafts that took and it's healing in and growing so vigorously. Thanks again!
thats a pretty good success rate! keep up the good work!
That's very interesting How you Do Cherry trees I like your new channel Thank you for the video
I can't believe it's been 6 years since that original video... I watched it when you first posted and started the grafting channel. Keep on keeping on and take care!
Ken it sure doesn't seem like 6 years ago. I really enjoy seeing how this grafting works. The harvest is bountiful. Take care
time flies for us old guys!
Great video and the skills involved in the process show up in successful results. Lot of hard work that pays off for a sustainable orchard. Thx
Just what we need !
More preachers an priests !!!
AMEN! can't wait to meet the new priest.
Great video thanks
absolutely love ur videos. the best grafting vids on utube
Glad you like them!
Thanks for doing this one. I did that to my only bing cherry tree that the goats ate. I took sions from what they didn't eat. Did your process and I got great a nice tree. Goats got a lot taller and ate off every thing. I replanted one and they ain,t getting over this fence. Thanks for what you do with educating us!!
Glad you're back!!!!!
Thank you for the new video Ken. I’ve been watching your videos for several years. You inspired me to start grafting apple trees for my land back in 2016. I would love to see additional follow up videos of orchards you’ve grafted. I love the beautiful scenery out there
hummm I know of one I grafted about 30 years ago
That was very useful to know.
About to graft onto an old unproductive cherry tree thats been in the garden for over 40 years... Good to know what i can expect 5 years from now if i get it right.
Thanks.
if its 40 years old. it will not take very well, you are better off to cut it back and see if it will grow new shoots, then graft onto the new growth.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skills.....Being here and watching this video kinda proves I'm not only into automotive videos......
How beautiful, I started a small Banana grove with a stump down here, it's amazing to see what a few years of growth does..
👍👌👏 Very well done again and as always, Sir!
👋
thank you for your videos!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are so welcome!
thank you for showing us the follow up video
You bet
Another informative video thank you. I guess that’s why you should always keep your words soft and sweet, you never know when you might have to eat them.
huh? eat them?
I sure love these grafting videos. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you like them!
Thank you Ken, really enjoyed this follow up!
My pleasure!
Thanks for sharing Ken. It was well worth waiting for.
You bet
Treemendous job Ken!
Heyy nice car!! 👌
Great video MR. Coates, I’ve really enjoyed watching these videos. Never knew a thing about grafting or that people done this until I watched your channel. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for the follow up. The grafting videos were interesting. Nice car!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great vid Ken ,, TY for the education
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice information sir jee so nice
Great video, Thanks!
You're welcome!
Interesting 👍
Thanks for the visit
Четко,👍
I love reading these nice comments ... Good Stuff. Stay safe.
Thanks, you too!
I’ve watched that video at least a dozen times.
I live in the wisco and grow tart cherries. I am working on crossing coral champagne with some tart cherries. I would like to have a hardy cherry for some 4A
Amazing. I love your explanation of the callused butts and why you need 3-4 but eventually sacrifice to leave the branches you need. I wonder what is your story? Would love a video about how you got into this business and who taught you about grafting and the science behind it.
I dont remember all the content in this video but it might tell "part" of the story lol ua-cam.com/video/d51tPzRL52E/v-deo.html
Thanks for the up date video.
You bet
Thanks for the follow up video. Could anyone answer this question:
When you select the branches to be grafted into the old rootstock, do those branches come from younger trees or do they come from newer shoots on the very same old trees?
Thanks
I suppose another reason for grafting an orchard is to keep up with climate change and being able to select varieties better suited to current climate conditions in each relevant area.
changing varieties is due to market trends. some varieties become obsolete and unprofitable. the graft wood must be "one year old shoots" the age of the donor tree does not matter
Thank you, Ken. Great video. Exactly what I was looking for. Also, I love the term you used, "...not rocket surgery!" A great combination of two metaphors - You should call your channel "Rocket Surgery" . Copyright that name - it's quite unique. 😀
check out my other channel where I actually DO rocket surgery! haha
waylon wires old iron @ youtube
ua-cam.com/video/-KBYc8iIF0U/v-deo.html
Hi I was wondering if you put anything on the scion to help it heal or graft to it's host after cut and wedged together?
would be nice to come and work and learn about Fruits :) Im from the Westcost of Norway, and i realy want to have a strong cherry tree next to my Artic Plumtree that newer dies :D its probaly 60-70years old.. fall down in a storm, so i cuted it by the stump. Now its huge and have large Torns and changed to small sweet plums
you can graft a good variety onto the stump growth
That's so Awesome how You do that. Then the reward afterwards. .. Do You know how long or who started the Grafting of trees like this. I've heard of it but until watching your channel never knew how it was done. Thank You.
well, i dont know they guys name but but it speaks of grafting olives in the bible
Thanks for the update. What variety was it originally and what's the new one? And what's the rootstock?
sweetheart to skeena, given the age of the tree, most likely gisela rootstock but im not positive
I have a lot of sour cherry trees ,I was wondering if you have any advice on what I can graft on them using the sour cherry trees as rootstock .Thank you
I never get a call to do so commercially but I believe you can graft a sweet cherry onto a sour.. try it!
Hi, how old is the scion wood? Is it one year old wood, or do you use wood that is second or third year? The scions seem like large diameter for one year old wood. Thanks!
We have a ton of wild cherries that we would like to graft with Rainier, bing, & pie cherries... What are your thoughts on doing that?
Developing a food forest at Vashon Island Treehouses & Farm, LLC. Near Seattle, WA.
Thanks for a great video!!!
yes it is and "must" be 1 year old wood. if it doesn't grow with enough vigor in your location to get 1/2 in. dia. you might consider coming east of the mountains to get your scion wood. it is common for cherry wood to reach 1.25 inches the first year in the Wenatchee Valley. I really don't know if the Rainier and Bing is compatible with wild cherry.. (we put everything on a rootstock) but I think the pie cherry will hook up ok.
@@allaboutgrafting5120 thank you for the quick reply!
The scions you were putting in were sure thick. Thanks!
Great!
How do you handle chemicals after flowering?
With good wishes from Russia!
chemicals are not my area of expertise.. thanks
Do you wrap around the graft wound??
not with this particular type of graft
Îs cherry or sower cherry good to graft on plum?
no, not directly. you need an Adara(plum rootstock) inter-stem to bridge the two
Can. you graft a black. cherry to a flower cherry thank you
sorry, I dont know what you mean by a "flower" cherry
Hi. We have a 25ft+ tall 20+ year old cherry tree with a trunk diameter close to 2 ft but branched into 3 trunks, each about 7" diameter. Is it ok to cut the tree down to about 5ft so only the trunk is left then do bark or wedge grafts on that? What's the likelihood of it dying by doing such a drastic cut? I plan to do this just before springtime.
If you cut that old tree that severely it is almost CERTAIN that it will DIE! Even if you dont kill it, grafts will NOT grow on stumps that old! cut back only "ONE" of the trunks in the spring.(if you are in the U.S. do it next March 2021) if the tree is healthy, suckers will sprout from the stump you cut. after they get to be about 18 inches long.. remove those new shoots except for about 6 of them. tie a piece of hay twine around the suckers about half way up so the wind doesn't break them out. if you have a lot of wind, then you need to nail or tie a 2x2 stake to the stump you cut and then wrap a hay twine around the suckers AND the stake to make SURE the wind does not break out your new shoots.. if you thin those shoots down to about 6 as I directed, then by the end of the summer, those shoots will get to be almost 2 inches in diameter. by the FOLLOWING spring (March of 2022) at that time, cut each of those sucker shoots which you've grown, back to about 6 inches long and then "SIDE GRAFT" onto those large shoots with "large dormant scion wood" collect THAT wood in Feb of 2022(if you're in the U.S) and store it in the refrigerator until late March or early April. using this technique, if you make precision cuts and hold your mouth just right, you can expect almost 90% SUCCESS rate.
PLEASE watch these THREE videos!
the demonstration is being done on apple trees, but the technique is EXACTLY the same for cherries.
#1. ua-cam.com/video/72bFkpuRvzI/v-deo.html
#2 ua-cam.com/video/Z7h1sUQzJGc/v-deo.html
#3 ua-cam.com/video/TkBZZnRnfoE/v-deo.html
PLEASE email me in 2023 and tell me all about your wonderful, enjoyable and highly successful grafting experience.
Ken @ coatesgrafting@gmail.com
@@allaboutgrafting5120 thank you so much for your very valuable feedback. Allow me to provide more details about the 20+yr 0ld tree in case it makes any difference..... The base of the trunk is about 2ft diameter. Around the 4ft height, it branched to 4 (not 3 as i misakenly stated before) subtrunks that are about 7" diameter each. Around 10 years ago, it was cut back to reduce the size so each of the 4 subtrunks were cut at around 15ft height but pruning paint was not used to cover the ends. As a result, all 4 trunks are rotting in varying degrees. By "rotting", i mean the trunks have softened like cork material on the outer portions of the sub-trunk's body, atleast in one of them. About 99% of the branches start from the shoots that developed from the ends of these trunks so the tree looks like 3 lion tails now(lol)--mostly branchless below the trunk ends at about 15ft. The branches start at around that height mostly from the shoots that developed from the ends of each trunk. The most severely rotting trunk I've already cut down 2 months ago with 2 ft of it left. The rot, as you may have guessed was most serious at the very tip of it where it was soft to the core. The remaining 3 trunks, I'm only really guessing the rot damage of but they do have much more top growth than the one I've cut down which barely had any. They all have some fist-sized "blisters" where sap oozes out from and hardens. One or two of the trunks has significantly less of these than the other tho. The most prolific one has a 3"diameter sized branch growing from it which is where I've grafted my first batch of plum scions to a few months ago at the end of July. Most of them took but the leaves have withered away to coincide with the fall season.
That said, given the 3 remaining trunks have rot at varying degrees, is it still better to just remove one (or none since I've already recently cut one down the severely rotted one a few months ago?) ? Or, given the circumstances, would it be more prudent to cut the two most rotted trunks and keep the 1 least rotted one? I was just afraid leaving them longer will give the rot more time to make its way to the main large trunk if it hasnt already done so.
were the stumps cherry trees ?
thats what the title says ;)
Referring to the fellow who said if the tree grew he’d become a priest.
oh! haha.. yep!
Can you graft a Japanese maple to a sugar maple? I know it's not a fruit tree but I figured you might know.
my guess is "yes"
@@allaboutgrafting5120 thanks I'm gonna try
@@jameswalker3416 I ran across a Japanese maple grafted to a Japanese maple This tree is huge with two types of Japanese maple leaves on it. Neat looking.
@@olivei2484 my problem is I don't have any Japanese maples big enough to graft to.
Most of the Japanese maples you can buy are grafted.
hello my friend!!
can you maby tell me what is the max diameter of the tree to be sucesful with grafing???tnx for the answer
❤
the diameter has nothing to do with the success
@@allaboutgrafting5120 thank you very much for the answer! i saw many big cherry tree whit big diameter unsusesfully grafted in my country😒😒😒
but you are next livel😎
❤tnx i will try with this option!!
Maybe you can show a progressive video of the growth
an old gmc trucks fits you best not a car
I love my car!
Very interesting, first time I see a technique where no rubber tape or raffia along with healing mastic is used to ensure tightness of the graft.
2x speed
I watched the video through to see if at some point I had sped up the footage but "nope" its in real time.. so I wonder what you mean by your comment . thanks for watching :)
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