Thread: Fruit, Nut, and Vine Grafting, Tree Propagation, Tree Care

Started removing the debris is areas the adjuster has to survey damage. The rest of the property has had a chainsaw buzzing for a couple of days. Here is a picture of my loader leftover from Hurricane Katrina. It really great at picking up the trees.



By evening big trouble walking with 2 sore dogs. Everyone buy stock in Advil I have a insider info it will be going up.

I like Kubota tractors. Looks like yours has been a good purchase. Hopefully things are cleaned up and fixed soon and insurance treats you well.

In the passing of the Tornado looking at the damage we are very blessed. No real losses to speak of compared to just yesterday's Twisters across the USA. I found the tornado got enough suction on the lower grade (1/12 pitch) back part of our roof it pulled the screws up in places a 1/2 inch. I have already re-screwed the roof.



The 80 feet of wood fence taken out by falling trees I have replaced. I found some of the posts were damaged so I had to attach the runners above or below the original mounting location. I also used 4in Deck Screws instead of nailing the runners. Since I had a Hardie Siding nail gun (does not sink the nail head, sets it flush) I bought some hot dipped galvanized ring shank nails to re-nail the fence pickets.



Here is the stump of the Oak that fell on my truck. It was twisted out of the ground. The hole in the yard where it was has roots twisted under the surface just ripping them off the tree stump.



We ended up with 2 broken water lines, the second just made a wet spot in the yard. When I removed the insulation on the pipes I found a fitting cracked, I guess something must have flown by hitting it. Got my shop all dried out from that water line, what's the chance the line would break off sticking right thru the wall flooding the floor? Still was a easy fix.



Repaired the Drip Irrigation lines, righted and re-potted the Citrus trees, removed the broken limbs, thinned the fruit set on the trees with greater damage. Even the potted Figs are recovering well.



These 2 Owari Satsumas were completely laid over so I wet the soil very well and righted both then staked and removed the fruit set for this year.



These 2 trees are the new Arctic Frost Satsuma (rated down to 9 degrees on a 5 year old tree) I had with the other Citrus trees, they blew out of the pots damaging the roots to the point I had to prune back the tops, place them in the shade to keep them from drying out while re-rooting. Both can take direct sunlight without wilting now.



No saving my 6 way Pear tree but the rootstock suckers seem to be living. I'm planning on Air Layering them because anything I grafted to the rootstock took well.



Even the Critters are back active I have been burning up the Possums at night with my pellet rifle when they didn't go in the trap but the first Racoon of the Spring, it got caught.

All in all, no real losses, I'm waiting on the freight estimate from a EBay Auto Recycler for a replacement door for my truck. I will start out removing the Cap and Bed, then interior once the Camper is back on Ross Barnett.

Originally Posted by Rojo

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I've been on the Bobcat drilling holes and planting pine trees, Power pole pine trees. The vine support cables need to be Mucho Strong to hold the weight of a big crop of fat Muscadines. These old Power Poles that are on the ends are 5ft in the ground with 160#'s of concrete in each hole. The middles are not pulled on, just holding weight up so they do not need the cement. After a couple of weeks I will start installing the vine support wire.

Quick update on the Muscadines. I added more posts, ran all the cabling, & trained the existing vines up on the wires. 3 more Muscadine vines are on order to fill out the Arbor system. Hopefully all will produce well, I have early, mid-season, and late producers to spread out the harvest time and fresh eating time.

Originally Posted by Rojo

I bought 2 pear trees last year a Monterrey & a California Pear. This winter I harvested some scion wood to graft onto some volunteer Pear rootstocks.

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Above is the Monterrey Pear grafts. They are breaking dormancy after 1 week. I like the description of this Pear and wanted to add it to my collection.

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They look like Apples.

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Not the best picture but you can see one of the Buds swelling. As fast as it is swelling I expect it to break within 3 days. This Pear, the Jury is still out. Few pears are Self-Fertile with low chill hours so I only grafted one limb to this variety. It is very hard to even find a good picture but it looks like a Bosc Pear. Hopefully the fruit will be good.

Here are some pictures of the growth of these grafts.



This is the first time I used electrical Rubber Tape for grafting. It along with the rubber bands really got the grafts to take. I have removed some of the aluminum foil so you can see the graftwork. Now one of these Pear trees is a 3 way, I like making fruit trees multiple variety. Today I will remove the rubber bands so they don't girdle the fresh growth.

Originally Posted by Rojo

I checked the tubs and found more rooted Fig Cuttings. As Fig Pops are removed from the tubs more Fig Pops are made and placed in the tubs. At some point I will switch to rooting in pots as the outdoor temperatures stay consistently warmer.

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These 6 were potted and 6 cuttings I stuck in a Citrus container all rooted so they were potted too. I'm up to 44 new Fig Trees now.

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The Fig Tree cuttings that rooted are growing fast. Too fast to keep them in the little mud boat. I have been hardening them off for a bit now had to move the larger ones out front near the water barrels.



The "Fig Boat" is still in use for the smaller fig trees.



This is the last ones just potted. Weaker than the others, improper storage & handling of the cuttings was a mistake I made this year I won't make again. Still I ended up with about 110 new Fig Trees at a 92-93% success rate. Not too shabby for a first years attempt at rooting fig tree cuttings.

Check out the Persimmons on this tree. It is absolutely loaded. I will have to keep the pressure up on the Raccoons if I hope to harvest any persimmons.

You are a busy man for sure