Sunday, February 23, 2014

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Hawaii & Gravenstein

 
'Hawaii' (left photo) & 'Gravenstein' (right photo) apple scions. Courtesy of Nol Meyer's friend.
Will be grafting these next month.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Close up of pear grafts

Four varieties grafted onto my 'Bartlett' pear tree.

'Warren'

'D'Anjou'

'Comice'

'Seckel'

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Grafting Pear scions

Today I grafted Warren, Anjou, Comice and Seckel onto my Bartlett Pear tree.
The bark was slipping very nicely and the tree was starting to push growth. However, my grafting wasn't that great, so now I'm worried if they'll take. Oh well, time will tell.

Soon, I'll be grafting onto my apple tree.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Citrus Grafting

Saturday, Feb 9th, I went to another California Rare Fruit Growers (CFRG) meeting in San Jose. I learned about "balancing multi-grafted fruit trees" and bought some citrus budwood for grafting. The budwood I got are: 'Seedless Kishu', 'Cara Cara Pink', 'Midknight', 'Sanguinelli' and 'Bream Tarocco'.
I grafted them onto my 'Washington Navel' orange but I had a tough time matching the grafts. So I might have bollocked it all and effectively mangled my little tree.
I grafted 'Seedless Kishu' onto my 'Dancy' mandarin tree.
'Midknight' Valencia
'Sanguinelli', 'Cara Cara Pink' & 'Bream Tarocco'.
'Washington Navel' Orange