Good tips, thanks. I grafted about 750 apple, pear, quince this year, most ever for me (besides grapes). I'm probably at 80% take so far. Many of my failures were from super thin scions from one particular nursery. I was really happy with Copenhaven, Cummings, and Treco for rootstock. Scionwood shipped from all over, most were very good with that one exception. I couldn't work my ground and had to pot my trees. The pear rootstock was the worst and didn't have near the root growth as anything else. Keep the videos coming!
Hey Nick, thanks for the videos man keep 'em coming! Would love to see a video on your top 10 apples to grow, especially the easiest to grow no-spray. Im wondering why you decided to go with G935 rootstock?
Wish i had some of those root-stocks. All i have are seedling rootstocks. Hopefully, i can get some of those rootstocks as a scionwood to graft on to my seedling rootstock for trench layering.
I've started stooling my seeding siberian crabapples for rootstock. Last year I got in some b118 and just made a stoolbed using trench layering, it worked.. I got about as many rootstocks out as put in the first year, this year more for sure.
@@Sp1tfire100 it's the most cold hardy semi dwarfing clonal stock. We're in zone 3 so I grow apple trees that can survive -35C. My usual rootstock is siberian crabapple seedlings.
I think iknow what you mean about speed being more important than alignment but i think thats only true if youre not already under 2-3 minutes per graft
Good tips, thanks. I grafted about 750 apple, pear, quince this year, most ever for me (besides grapes). I'm probably at 80% take so far. Many of my failures were from super thin scions from one particular nursery. I was really happy with Copenhaven, Cummings, and Treco for rootstock. Scionwood shipped from all over, most were very good with that one exception. I couldn't work my ground and had to pot my trees. The pear rootstock was the worst and didn't have near the root growth as anything else. Keep the videos coming!
also found myself gravitating to just whip grafts for bench grafting.. I'll use whip & tongue for field grafts.
Good tips.
I get better results planting bench grafts in the ground as well. The scions I got from you all took and are growing good.
Wow so many grafts
sadly each could've been in a cheap container planted halfway in the ground in a row
Hey Nick, thanks for the videos man keep 'em coming! Would love to see a video on your top 10 apples to grow, especially the easiest to grow no-spray. Im wondering why you decided to go with G935 rootstock?
G-935 is just something that was left, a lot of the other Geneva rootstocks were sold out.
Wish i had some of those root-stocks. All i have are seedling rootstocks. Hopefully, i can get some of those rootstocks as a scionwood to graft on to my seedling rootstock for trench layering.
I've started stooling my seeding siberian crabapples for rootstock. Last year I got in some b118 and just made a stoolbed using trench layering, it worked.. I got about as many rootstocks out as put in the first year, this year more for sure.
@@OakSummitNurserywhy b118?
@@Sp1tfire100 it's the most cold hardy semi dwarfing clonal stock. We're in zone 3 so I grow apple trees that can survive -35C. My usual rootstock is siberian crabapple seedlings.
I think iknow what you mean about speed being more important than alignment but i think thats only true if youre not already under 2-3 minutes per graft
I say between cut and seal should be less than 1 minute
I have heard of people doing 800-1000 bench grafts in a 8 hour day. My hands were going numb after 50.
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