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My first attempt at grafting
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My first attempt at grafting
Today it was warm enough that the sap was running in the Walnut trees, so I tried it. I dug the scions I had cut last fall out of the spare refrigerator, selected the best (and best kept) specimens, and located the trees I wanted to graft to. On advice from Dizzy, I scrapped the idea of grafting to gum trees. Instead I only selected Black Walnut trees. The walnuts are thick here, and finding youthful healthy trees was a simple matter of walking around our clearing, near the edge of the woods. I did have to make a dipper, and rig up a double boiler. The dipper was simply a wire wrapped around an old shot shell hull. The boiler was a small coffee can hung by a coat hanger.

I used a grafting method where you split the branch of the tree you are grafting to, cut a wedge shape on the grafting scion, and insert the scion into the split. Then seal it up with cloth tape and paraffin wax.
The stored scions, as unwrapped from the newspaper;

Sorry for how blurry this is, but you can make out the green layer between the outer bark and the wood, indicating living tissue, and a viable scion.

One of my "victims"

Splitting the chosen branch, with a knife.

After inserting and taping...

and waxing

This one had a vine growing into it, and probably just should have been cut down, instead I cut just below the damage, cleared the vines away from it, and grafted two scions into the tall stump. This one I did not tape, but I did wax it heavily.

In all I grafted 9 scions to five trees. By mid summer I should know if I was successful.

I used a grafting method where you split the branch of the tree you are grafting to, cut a wedge shape on the grafting scion, and insert the scion into the split. Then seal it up with cloth tape and paraffin wax.
The stored scions, as unwrapped from the newspaper;

Sorry for how blurry this is, but you can make out the green layer between the outer bark and the wood, indicating living tissue, and a viable scion.

One of my "victims"

Splitting the chosen branch, with a knife.

After inserting and taping...

and waxing

This one had a vine growing into it, and probably just should have been cut down, instead I cut just below the damage, cleared the vines away from it, and grafted two scions into the tall stump. This one I did not tape, but I did wax it heavily.

In all I grafted 9 scions to five trees. By mid summer I should know if I was successful.
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Genesis 1:29 Then God said,"I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth, and every tree that has fruit with seed in it..."
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Re: My first attempt at grafting
Look forward to hearing how you made out.
dizzy- Posts : 4019
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Re: My first attempt at grafting
I hope it is a successful first attempt.
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Re: My first attempt at grafting
Ok here are some early "returns"
The buds on the grafted scions are swelling...most anyway.



The buds on the grafted scions are swelling...most anyway.



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Proverbs 28:19 He who works his land will have abundant food...
Genesis 1:29 Then God said,"I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth, and every tree that has fruit with seed in it..."
http://christiancountryramblings.com/
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Re: My first attempt at grafting
You never did tell us how or if it worked.
dizzy- Posts : 4019
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Re: My first attempt at grafting
well, we may never know. There was one that did not take, and four that simply disappeared, Turkey or deer maybe squirrel or mouse after that strange leaf. I will likely try again next spring.
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Proverbs 28:19 He who works his land will have abundant food...
Genesis 1:29 Then God said,"I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth, and every tree that has fruit with seed in it..."
http://christiancountryramblings.com/
Re: My first attempt at grafting
Interesting thread. Somehow I missed it until today and am not sure how I overlooked it. Were you trying to graft walnut into walnut? and what is the reason? Usually I have always thought of grafting as fruit trees like apple and peach.
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Re: My first attempt at grafting
Hickory to walnut, but I don't recall now why he was trying. They're in the same family.
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Re: My first attempt at grafting
actually American Chestnut to both Hickory and Walnut. There is a grand tree my grandfather planted 40 years ago. It is a rare strain that is immune to Chestnut Blight. The plan was to graft a few scions, and hopefully grow more chestnut trees of this strain.
I may have lost the first round, but I will try again.
I may have lost the first round, but I will try again.
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Proverbs 28:19 He who works his land will have abundant food...
Genesis 1:29 Then God said,"I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth, and every tree that has fruit with seed in it..."
http://christiancountryramblings.com/
Re: My first attempt at grafting
I thought you were doing hickory. That was why I suggest the walnut since they're in the same family. Chestnut is in the beech family.
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Re: My first attempt at grafting
Grafting is a very interesting procedure and while I have never attempted it, I may sometime. I would love to see you be successful at it Keith.
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Re: My first attempt at grafting
Thanks Rohn
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Genesis 1:29 Then God said,"I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth, and every tree that has fruit with seed in it..."
http://christiancountryramblings.com/
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