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

Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Absolutely beautiful. You have been a very busy man. Everything looks good. The grafts really look good and are doing well. Hate you lost some fruit this year but better than losing the whole trees. Amazing success with fig pop, they look good.

I didn't count the really poorly handled cuttings just the viable stuff. I quit a few minutes early today, pulling on more of the Satsuma / Lemon wine blend. I need to find a name for this blend because its fantastic. Way better than each one individually. I got in 2 new Nectarines yesterday from Home Depot. They were remarkable well packaged, free shipping, both had two bud grafts, very healthy looking trees for the price. I heal potted them with the Camper work going on. I have to use the Backhoe to dig up the other Nectarine's roots before planting these.

Y'all remember this picture?



This is how they look today.............



I've started sharing these back with wood donors & friends. I was way too successful for my expectations but happy with the results. Fig Pop Method is the easiest by far for home fig tree propagation.

Wow, those look really good. I agree fig pop works good. You had a head start on me, mine are half the size of those.

Ha and I thought they were actual lollipops! Ya got me. Those really took off.

In a earlier post I posted pictures of a Wild Mayhaw I had that bloomed too early to get any fruit, I posted pictures of the Top Working job I did on the 7 year old tree and its growth since. Tonight I would like to share a picture of the "Fruits" of my effort. The Maxine Mayhaw is a very desirable variety if late frosts tend to get your blooms. Not only does the Maxine bloom almost a month later but is does not Shatter (drop fruit as it ripens) so 90 percent of the fruit can be harvested at one time. I prefer to pick my Mayhaw fruit at each fruit's peak so to speak where commercial harvests are done with a tree shaker just like a Pecan tree. The fruit size usually will max out at .80in with the Maxine much larger than a normal Mayhaw but check out the size of these fruits. With the super-sized root system of the 10 year old tree pumping it's efforts into 3 year old wood the monster Mayhaws are the result. Several are over 1 inch in diameter. Not going to have enough for wine but plenty of jelly will be made.

That’s cool. I know nothing of mayhaw fruit but I’m curious now and will do some research.

Well the 80+MPH straight line winds we had a few days ago got one of the Pear grafts. Sometimes when grafting to little limbs wire should we taped into the graft for Scion support. On most grafts I put a Bird Perch limb or a piece of 1x2 to prevent a bird from breaking the graft scion out but I just didn't think any of these would blow out.



This Monterrey Pear graft is on a trunk with some give, it made it through the storm just fine as well as a couple of others.



This Pear tree is still 3 varieties but we lost one of the Monterrey Pear grafts.



Nothing left but the tape. I had to cut this little limb back to a clean cut to prevent any disease from entering the wound. It helps to have more than one of any important variety of tree because life happens, even tree life.

As a tree is Topworked the trunk tries to maintain a growth rate. This Stump root system is still very much alive so care must be taken so too much new growth is not removed. We want to keep the Stump growth vigor.



All the buds on both Pecan Scions have broken. Growth is usually a little slow to start with but these buds are not growing as fast as they should. Looking over the rest of the shoots from the stump I see numerous new growths with lots of vigor. Most are above the graft where A-Typical Dominance kicks in. Since I chose to place the graft at a lower point on the stump shoots than the others attention must continuously be paid to remove vigorous growth on the shoots to force growth out of the Scions.



First to reduce the A-Typical Dominance I topped the tallest shoot back closer to the graft height.



These vigorous green shoots is sending hormones to the stump letting it know "We are Growing, keep feeding us" so they must be removed.



Here is a picture with the proper thinning of growth to send more energy to the graft area.