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

So it's been 30 days or so and most of the Page Mandarin Scions grafted to various citrus tree stumps have broke and are growing. Not all scions made it as some were very skinny, a few of those are delayed or dead.



These are examples of why I like to use rubber bands in the initial grafting stage. It has been 30 days and the sun has eaten up the rubber bands to the point they are falling off. If you don't have Cambium Fusion in 30 days the extra clamping won't help in my opinion. The Linerless Rubber Splicing tape has more integrity and still provides a lesser clamping force but all the clamping force needed in 30 days.



Cambium Fusion has obviously occurred as we have bud breaking all over the scions.



These Topworking Grafts were done last summer after we found out Valencia Oranges were terrible fresh eating oranges. I cut the tree off leaving a Nurse branch and grafted a new variety on the stump. The new growth currently is crazy vigorous. I have to keep watch almost daily as the Swallowtail Moth has already laid eggs on this new tree growth. 3 big green worm Larvae can strip this growth in a couple of days.