Thread: Fruit, Nut, and Vine Grafting, Tree Propagation, Tree Care

Well the weather forecast has us at 32 degrees in the morning so I put our citrus trees up and thought a picture would be worth a 100 words.

That’s awesome! It’s been below freezing for couple weeks here. I’ve brought my fig cuttings inside and everything else is in greenhouse.

Awesomeness. I have talked several times about a aquaponics greenhouse here. I have yet to pull the trigger and start the work. The chicken coop is solar powered. I am about ready for another project

Made a run up the road from the house today to collect some cool fig & pear tree cuttings. After collection I vacuum bag everything to go into storage except the Fig clusters, they are going straight into the ground as a cluster. We will see if the experiment works.



SD that bag on the right in the first picture has your name on it.

That’s awesome. Do you know the varieties you got today?

Originally Posted by SuperDave336

That’s awesome. Do you know the varieties you got today?

We do not know the variety of the fig or pear, the fig I had here before. When we concreted our circle drive and porch the water run off killed the first one. So it is Golf ball to Tennis ball sized, yellow, very sweet, fig. The Mother tree is 50 years old and bears very heavy with little care. The Pear is a fast fruiting, fresh eating, self fertile variety and after grafting to a 6 way Pear I have now we will find out.

I received a nice collection of Muscadine cuttings to use for grafting to the wild Muscadine vines I have growing all over my place. Grapes are grafted the world over but I hear over and over Muscadinces can not be grafted. Well I have enough cuttings now to test that.



So the photo is a example of a storage practice that is used everywhere. These cuttings are exactly how I received them. Since all cuttings I have tried to store in a ziploc bag using a wet paper towel to keep the cuttings from drying out. My experience has been mold grows quickly when stored in that much humidity.



This photo has one variety of cuttings vacuum packed without extra moisture, seal in using just a little vacuum. This method retains the moisture without providing enough for mold growth.



Now that these are properly prepared for storage they can be placed in a refrigerator set to 40 degrees till needed for grafting about 30-45 days.

Very nice, very neat, very organized. I like it.

This is the last month to dig any Blueberry Babies to transplant still allowing them time to root before the soil warms back up.



The 2 root shoots to the left of the Mother Plant are Babies. You can dig them up, cut the root free from the Mother, and transplant after "Topping".



I cut the tops off as the Baby will grow Limb Buds when it's ready. Till then it just grows roots. You can see in the first picture above I do not use the soil I dug out. It needs to be pulverized since heavy clay or in my case I had a load of native top soil trucked in years ago that has sand in it. Here I put shovels of that instead as it will settle around the existing roots of the cutting much better. You are looking for a soil PH of around 5.5 so a sulfur soil acidifier without fertilizer is always a good addition right around the fresh dug area.



You may have to blow up the picture to see all the cuttings I planted but they go well past the Blueberry plant in the picture. The Kiln is growing in a way that I'm hardening off our property. A solid Southern Highbush Blueberry hedge is next impossible to get thru. Also I'm adding Muscadine vines with 16ft Hog panels underneath. I don't want my place to look like a Compound but that's exactly what I'm working towards.

Those will turn out nice