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Grafting lessons

Grafting

I finished up the last of the grafting and pruning Wednesday when another round of scionwood came in the mail.  The first pear I frameworked last week has been converted to Seckel, but I frameworked the second pear with two separate varieties.  One was Comice and the other was described as follows:

"I'll also include an unknown pear that was marked as Comice and no one yet even in pear country can identify and most think it is the best they have ever tasted."
--- Darshan


(How could I turn something like that down?)

Stretching parafilm

Meanwhile, I changed two other trees into fruit cocktail trees by grafting a new variety onto one limb apiece.  Both trees were already pretty big, so I don't know how tough it'll be to make sure the newly grafted twigs have adequate growing area, especially since I added a plum limb to a peach in one case.  (I had swapped for plum scionwood thinking I'd add it to Grafting waxmy Methley plum, but she's ailing and might get yanked out, and I didn't want the scionwood to go to waste.)

Here's what I learned during my grafting afternoon:

Now I just have to pretend to be patient until everything starts to leaf out.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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