I ’ve posted a couple of times on the Chickasaw plum tree ( one of our idle aboriginal plums ) I planted in the front yard andhow I added a cultivated variety of plum to it , along with my interest in graft wild plum .
A calendar month ago I pass an good afternoon popping in grafts on various trees to see what would figure out and what would n’t .
The picture above is one of those experiment ; it ’s a Sunraycer nectarine tree scion that ’s starting to produce off one of the Chickasaw plum ’s sucker .
Here ’s another graft that seems to have taken , this time from a smasher :
This is receive to be rather fun . I ’m imagining what this tree will look like in a few years as I keep graft Harlan Fisk Stone yield onto the suckers … it ’ll be a bona fide fruit cocktail .
As for the cultivated plum I graft onto it last year , it ’s now over 4′ long … and it ’s bursting into bloom !
Here ’s what the original bribery now looks like :
you’re able to still see the “ V ” of the original fissure bribery but it ’s healed up dainty and tight .
InCreate Your Own Florida Food Forest , I refer there are reason to keep open wild trees when planning a intellectual nourishment forest , one of them being that they may serve you as established root stock you may later graft on top of .
In some parts of Florida there are wild plum everywhere … why not ameliorate upon them ?
And speaking of improving , check this out :
I ’m especially proud of that graft because it ’s not mine – it ’s my wife ’s .
Yes , that is Rachel ’s very first attempt at grafting , and it ’s taken thus far .
Good body of work , you sexy nurseryman you .
It ’s really not hard to graft . Perhaps next spring I can have a small class on it here for anyone ’s that ’s interested . That will give me another year to rehearse my technique and have more to show off around the food forest .
Anyone else doing some grafting this spring ?
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