Grafting and cuttings

[Suilleabhain]

This year I'm going to graft some apple to my crabapple on the property and start some cuttings from shrubs and wild grape.

Anyone have experience with this and can offer some tips?

[fasteddie]

I worked at Kelly Brpthers Nursery in Dansville a couple summers when I was a kid ( many many years ago ) .

The "budder" would make an upside down T in the bush , slice off a bud , slip it into the incision and it would be tied in with a straight piece of rubber which looked like a piece of rubber band that had been cut . By the time the rubber rotted , the bud would have taken hold .

[Suilleabhain]

Thanks, thats a start

Bill

[growalot]

When doing the shrubs and grapes put them in a semi shaded area that you don't plan on disturbing ...I've used both sand and very moist peat ...or you can make a tiny cut under a bud and pin the grape vine or shrub branch to the ground and cover in a light soil/peat mound...cant let either way dry out...you get faster results with second method...once roots develop...cut from main plant and plant with surrounding soil to spot you want

[Suilleabhain]

In another post I mentioned I bought hawthorn to plant this year. Two of the three plants started real well. The third plant didn't bud at all. Figured it was dead but it felt green so I left it. A month later I'm seeing life. How do you figure that?