If I were to graft a Hass avocado cutting (the scion) to a branch of a 10 years old Mexicola avocado tree (the root stock), will the tree then produce two different types of avocado fruits?
Great way to explain it! I would recommend going in and cutting back your tree either this summer or this winter. The branches seem very long and thin and a lot are just going straight up. You generally would also want to graft closer to the trunk of the tree because that tip will not be a significant amount of the tree and it is very possible it will just break off.
This year I chose to leave the tree so it would produce a strong root system. You are right it is top heavy and I will be pruning it back to a nicer structure ;). The grafts I showed were on the tips of branches mostly to limit the risk of failed grafts. Next year on my friends tree we will be doing grafts much further back to put permanent additions on it :) I am really glad you liked the video! I had a lot of fun putting it together!
Thank you for explaining! This might sound crazy but I didn't have any Idea what grafting a plant was, until I played the game sims 4. I had to research this and it lead me to your video. LOL. Thank you for explaining what grafting means and how to do it.
Nice vid as usual. Last year I chopped down a crab apple tree because I HATED the taste. They tasted gross. It is still alive and send up shoots. Thisvideo gives me the idea to graft some better tasting frust to the stump. Is this viable? Where do I get cuttings to graft? Should I take some pruning shears to the nursery and "help" them out with some pruning????? LOLz.
You absolute can so a stump graft. You can put 2-3 types on one stump or take those new shoots and graft them :) Right before spring sets in you can take scions usually from nurseries that have botanical gardens :) I plan to do that next year ! They allowed me to no problem ! I would love to see how you do! If you would like some help planning let me know
Hey Stephen! I haven't been around much lately, but I try my best to keep up with all new posts. This is an excellent video, very informative! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
***** Between working 12 hour days and helping my parents out, doesn't leave much time to myself. I spent about an hour weeding my garden.....it was a jungle!
Hi Steven, I don't know you could add a new tip to the tree. Course now that i say it it makes sense. I have a few small trees (peach, cherry, apple and a grape vine thats over 50y old and looks more like a tree than a vine) in the garden. I plan on making a 5 or more part grafted fruit tree someday soon. Do you recommend a time of lear that is best for grafting? Scarlett
Spring my friend. you want to collect your scions before anything happens in the spring and store them in the fridge. Then when the buds are starting on the root stock you can do the grafting. Grafting after the leafs are the size of mouse ears has a higher failure rate my apple tree at home I plan on grafting 2 pear and 2 apples to it to make it a 5 in 1 :) just time now!
Interesting thing of note with plants of the same family is you can graft to each other. So what I plan to do is graft 2 apples and 2 pears to my apple tree in the next few years :) I am glad you liked the video!
Great video ***** I recently purchased an espalier pear tree that has been grafted with three different kinds of pears, I'm very excited for it to fruit (hopefully next year) to taste each kind.
That is fantastic my friend! I was thinking about an Espalier one as well but decided against it lol. You can add a few more types to your tree as well. Interesting note you can add apples to your pear :) a Bud graft might work the best ! Gardening in Norway showed it in one of his videos!
Good information Stephen. Thanks for sharing. My trees are just getting established and I'm pruning a lot so the roots get going. Grafting is in the future:)
lovely lovely lovely great great description box great no irrelevant talking great very informing video great you amde my day and days to come easy and happy thank you truly you saved a life
I want to grow guavas from seed but I've heard they can take up to 7 years to fruit! is there any way I can speed the growth to maybe 2 - 3 years besides fertilizers? thanks!
Great vid, Stephen! Grafting is a very fun hobby as well, and a very good tool to have. In areas with heavy snowfalls and frost, it`s very beneficial for us gardeners to master this technique to save our fruit trees from damages and even death. I have also many rootstocks available if the mice chew off the bark below the snow level. Sometimes they can eat off all the bark and leave the inner wood exposed to the elements. If not rootstocks are grafted into the upper part, the tree dies off. Just cut off the top part of the rootstocks, plant them beside the damaged tree in a circle, and then sneak the tops in under the bark of the big tree. Then cover the damage and graft with a grafting wax or similar. I`ll may make some drawings of the different grafting techniques in a future grafting video. -Or it would be very cool to cooperate with you making a real cool educational grafting video. :) All the best my friend. Halvor.
I am having a ton of fun grafting my friend! Your mice seem much worse then mine! I would love to do a collaboration Halvor! why dont you email me and we can discuss how to put together a collaboration for both of our channels. albertaurbangarden@gmail.com Stephen
***** Splendid! I`ll email you when I`ve sorted out some ideas. This evening it was some other things that occupied my thoughts. My cat Isac got bitten by a viper and I had to take him to the vet. His one leg swelled to over double thickness, and he was in a pain. He`s now sleeping beside me here after getting some injections that seemed to calm down things. Best wishes, Halvor.
can you explain a little about what tree graft from parents tree............any tree can graft from parents tree??? even trees that aren't produce the same type of fruit??? like orange and apple??? I don't want to get poison after eating........
Grafted plants can bring a wide variety of positive things to your garden check out all of the benefits in this short video. ua-cam.com/video/xJJLARjwGH0/v-deo.html
*A perfect segway into our **Greenhouse 1.4 (How to graft plants)** tomorrow on ********* TV *********!* Great information, and well thought out. #SustainableFarming #SustainableChange #AW4CLive #Grafting
You bet *****, thank you for always producing quality content that's easy for the general public to understand! You can always catch the replay's and share them around if you find any value in them...it's taken a lot of work to get here, I hope it's helping people! :-D
I never thought of grafting to add a new growth tip. Very well done video Stephen!
Chuck
I am glad you enjoyed the video my friend.
If I were to graft a Hass avocado cutting (the scion) to a branch of a 10 years old Mexicola avocado tree (the root stock), will the tree then produce two different types of avocado fruits?
Great way to explain it! I would recommend going in and cutting back your tree either this summer or this winter. The branches seem very long and thin and a lot are just going straight up. You generally would also want to graft closer to the trunk of the tree because that tip will not be a significant amount of the tree and it is very possible it will just break off.
This year I chose to leave the tree so it would produce a strong root system. You are right it is top heavy and I will be pruning it back to a nicer structure ;). The grafts I showed were on the tips of branches mostly to limit the risk of failed grafts. Next year on my friends tree we will be doing grafts much further back to put permanent additions on it :)
I am really glad you liked the video! I had a lot of fun putting it together!
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Good job explaining how to Graft Plants. I like the idea of getting your perennials to speed up the process of fruiting.
The sooner they feed you and your family to quicker it pays for itself :) I am patient but prefer to be rewarded quicker lol
I really enjoyed the info I'm going to play around with my fruit trees later on this season, Thanks for the look
I would love to see how you do my friend! I cant wait to get into my tree ;) I am going to add two more types of apple and two pear :)
So how did it go?
Thank you for explaining! This might sound crazy but I didn't have any Idea what grafting a plant was, until I played the game sims 4. I had to research this and it lead me to your video. LOL. Thank you for explaining what grafting means and how to do it.
Brittany Davis I am glad I could help. Lots of our most common fruit crops are due to grafts. I am glad the Sims could help!
***** Thank you.
Nice vid as usual. Last year I chopped down a crab apple tree because I HATED the taste. They tasted gross. It is still alive and send up shoots. Thisvideo gives me the idea to graft some better tasting frust to the stump. Is this viable? Where do I get cuttings to graft? Should I take some pruning shears to the nursery and "help" them out with some pruning????? LOLz.
You absolute can so a stump graft. You can put 2-3 types on one stump or take those new shoots and graft them :)
Right before spring sets in you can take scions usually from nurseries that have botanical gardens :) I plan to do that next year ! They allowed me to no problem !
I would love to see how you do! If you would like some help planning let me know
Hey Stephen! I haven't been around much lately, but I try my best to keep up with all new posts. This is an excellent video, very informative! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I was wondering where you had been :) I ended up increasing my frequency for the time being so no trouble at all ! :)
***** Between working 12 hour days and helping my parents out, doesn't leave much time to myself. I spent about an hour weeding my garden.....it was a jungle!
Lol mulching my man keeps that weeding down to a minimal !
Take some time man for yourself !
Hi Steven,
I don't know you could add a new tip to the tree. Course now that i say it it makes sense.
I have a few small trees (peach, cherry, apple and a grape vine thats over 50y old and looks more like a tree than a vine) in the garden. I plan on making a 5 or more part grafted fruit tree someday soon.
Do you recommend a time of lear that is best for grafting?
Scarlett
Spring my friend. you want to collect your scions before anything happens in the spring and store them in the fridge. Then when the buds are starting on the root stock you can do the grafting. Grafting after the leafs are the size of mouse ears has a higher failure rate
my apple tree at home I plan on grafting 2 pear and 2 apples to it to make it a 5 in 1 :) just time now!
Great information, Stephen! This is something I want to try on my Asian pear tree when it gets a little more mature. Thanks!
Interesting thing of note with plants of the same family is you can graft to each other. So what I plan to do is graft 2 apples and 2 pears to my apple tree in the next few years :) I am glad you liked the video!
***** That sounds like a fun project. I look forward to seeing how it develops!
I am going to take a course so I know how to shape my tree and then start grafting 1-2 a year on the tree :)
Very informative Stephen! I may give it a try next year.
I would love to see how you do! It all happens before your work season starts as well :)
Thanks for all the information on this, Stephen. It is something that I am wanting to do.
I highly recommend it my friend!! It's a lot of fun!
Great video ***** I recently purchased an espalier pear tree that has been grafted with three different kinds of pears, I'm very excited for it to fruit (hopefully next year) to taste each kind.
That is fantastic my friend! I was thinking about an Espalier one as well but decided against it lol. You can add a few more types to your tree as well. Interesting note you can add apples to your pear :) a Bud graft might work the best ! Gardening in Norway showed it in one of his videos!
Good to know, I will look more into it. Thanks for the tip!
Let me know how you do with your tree! The trellis is a neat challenge!
I will be updating the site with the first update about it soon, I'll link it up to G+ too so it's easy to find
make sure to link me to the update my friend :) I dont want to miss it!
Good information Stephen. Thanks for sharing. My trees are just getting established and I'm pruning a lot so the roots get going. Grafting is in the future:)
I am practicing on my friends trees while mine gets established ! Then I'll be doing the same to mine !
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you amde my day and days to come easy and happy
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truly
you saved a life
Nice video on grafting!
Thank you
Well done my friend, many thumbs up :)
Thank you my friend !
how many days it will take
You can serious cut off branches and reattach elsewhere on the plant?
Thanks for sharing the great explanation
I am very glad you enjoyed the video!
I want to grow guavas from seed but I've heard they can take up to 7 years to fruit! is there any way I can speed the growth to maybe 2 - 3 years besides fertilizers? thanks!
am I able to graft a guava sapling to a different tree?
Great vid, Stephen!
Grafting is a very fun hobby as well, and a very good tool to have. In areas with heavy snowfalls and frost, it`s very beneficial for us gardeners to master this technique to save our fruit trees from damages and even death. I have also many rootstocks available if the mice chew off the bark below the snow level. Sometimes they can eat off all the bark and leave the inner wood exposed to the elements. If not rootstocks are grafted into the upper part, the tree dies off. Just cut off the top part of the rootstocks, plant them beside the damaged tree in a circle, and then sneak the tops in under the bark of the big tree. Then cover the damage and graft with a grafting wax or similar.
I`ll may make some drawings of the different grafting techniques in a future grafting video. -Or it would be very cool to cooperate with you making a real cool educational grafting video. :)
All the best my friend.
Halvor.
I am having a ton of fun grafting my friend! Your mice seem much worse then mine!
I would love to do a collaboration Halvor! why dont you email me and we can discuss how to put together a collaboration for both of our channels. albertaurbangarden@gmail.com
Stephen
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Splendid!
I`ll email you when I`ve sorted out some ideas. This evening it was some other things that occupied my thoughts. My cat Isac got bitten by a viper and I had to take him to the vet. His one leg swelled to over double thickness, and he was in a pain. He`s now sleeping beside me here after getting some injections that seemed to calm down things.
Best wishes,
Halvor.
My goodness I hope your cat heals up quickly.
Send me any collaboration thoughts you have ! I look forward to our grafting one !
can you explain a little about what tree graft from parents tree............any tree can graft from parents tree??? even trees that aren't produce the same type of fruit??? like orange and apple??? I don't want to get poison after eating........
Good info and well presented ;-)
thank you Dave! I appreciate it!
Where can I find all the stuff I need for grafting?
Grafted plants can bring a wide variety of positive things to your garden check out all of the benefits in this short video.
ua-cam.com/video/xJJLARjwGH0/v-deo.html
i live in winnipeg and just ordered a meyer lemon tree
loved this thanks
You are welcome !
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+jamil singh excellent thank you!
Nice broo thank you
My grafts always fail
*A perfect segway into our **Greenhouse 1.4 (How to graft plants)** tomorrow on ********* TV *********!* Great information, and well thought out.
#SustainableFarming #SustainableChange #AW4CLive #Grafting
Thank you Wayne! I have been enjoying the Hangouts I can catch!
You bet *****, thank you for always producing quality content that's easy for the general public to understand! You can always catch the replay's and share them around if you find any value in them...it's taken a lot of work to get here, I hope it's helping people! :-D
So basically hybrid plants?