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So here are some grafts, all from this year...the earliest one being from Jan 2012.
its interesting to see how some of them changed in such a short time.
below is a multi grafted jaboticaba that has about 6 grafts on it right now, most cleft, but some were sheild budded (I think that's the name?)
can you see the 3 types of foliage? Left, Trunciflora, pushing red growth and much more vigorous than the other scions (i've had to prune this part back already 3 times), top/middle, is the M. cauliflora hybrid, red jaboticaba, its got the yellowest leaves of the bunch...and right hand side has nice dark green leaves, M spirito santensis (grimal jaboticaba), its about to push forth new leaves, I'm eager to see all 3 push new leaves at once
Trunciflora union (of tree pictured above)
spirito santensis union, almost totally invisible (same tree as above)
cauliflora hybrid, Red jabo (same tree as above)
where I shield budded onto the tree, and tried to only graft on the flowers! It looks like it might put out a flower if you look close! I will know by April of next year for sure. This graft took, but never pushed out any leaves...now it's doing something finally.
another graft on the same tree, just like above! glad to see its alive!
my first grafted jabo ever! A M. spirito santensis, done in Jan 2012, in front of the Titusville Garden Club, while giving a talk about how to graft fruit trees. (I'll never forget the kind elderly lady who gasped as I decapitated a seedling jaboticaba, to do a cleft graft!! She couldn't believe some one would cut a jabo tree like that! HAHA, I'm glad it lived, she would be to I'm guessing!
same graft as above...this one healed up so funny because it barely took! Only a small portion of the cambium fused, way down at the very bottom of my cleft graft! It will soon grow out of this funny bulge I'm guessing.
cleft graft of my favorite seedling avocado, healed pretty fast (4 weeks)...I've had great success with cleft grafting avocado.
and this is a Yucatan sugar apple I veneer grafted last year, onto a pet pak chong atemoya seedling. It's healed up so good, I was surprised. I can barely tell it's grafted, unlike most other annona grafts I've done. The leaves of this sugar apple variety are reminiscent of A. reticulata to me, and it seems like this tree has a good tolerance to cold. It hasn't even thought about shedding leaves yet (it had temps of 45F a few times) but all of the other annonas I have are going into fall/winter dormancy for sure, shedding leaves.
Hope you enjoy the pics and have some questions!!!