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Post by mnjrutherford on May 16, 2010 16:08:17 GMT -5
Jo: You don't have to limit yourself to trees that you want to keep for practicing on. The principle is the same for all trees. You can even just shift cuttings from one branch to another for practice, or try pleaching two trees together. Make an English lollipop out of a small junk variety tree (cut out the center and take two branches from opposite sides and join them over the center). Play with it until you get it right consistently. That is my thought exactly Dan! But I've never heard your terminology, especially the "English Lollipop"! That sounds like great fun! We've got a whole forest of trees at our disposal, so I've got plenty of experimental material... pine+oak=poak?poan? sassafras+black cherry=sasserry?chefras? I can't touch the bald cypress... Mike would eat my liver and shrink my head! |
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Post by mjc on May 16, 2010 18:26:04 GMT -5
Stick with trees in the same genus...preferably within the same species. That way, you'll have a much better chance to see if your grafts are failing because of technique or because of something else.
The guy who taught me had me grafting stuff back on to itself...take a cutting from one branch and put it on the other side of the tree. The other thing he had me practice on was multiflora rose...used it for rootstock and budded (bud grafting is still something I don't really like doing).
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