Updated Video On My RBZT Mango Grafting Method Cocktail Tree!

[edzone9]

This method is really working out very well for me!
Having lots of fun with it !
I think my multi grafted mango tree will be a success 😊

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=08T_a7LBzk8

Thanks Ed

Note the last Graft was also a M4 not Guava .

[JoeP450]

Hey Ed,

Wanted to chime in here and say thank you for the inspiration. I have tried grafting a few times in the past and pretty much gave up on it due to no success and feeling that I was just ruining the plants and wasting time. I saw this zip tie idea and decided to try it out along with a “saddle graft” style which flyingfoxfruits has a post on the forum using annonas (believe this is just opposite the cleft grafts you are doing). Above is a picture of two big red attempts on na dai rootstock, and both took! I didn’t use a rubber band, just buddy tape and zip tie.

Really appreciate this forum and all the knowledge shared. Thank you.


-Joep450

[edzone9]

That is fantastic!
Congrats !

Ed

[zands]

Why would zip ties be better than clothes pins?  The pressure would be the same......... Anyways I have seen bags of them in the local 99¢ store and will take a look there and buy if I see them again.

Ed are you using more than one zip tie?

[edzone9]

I use only 1 Zip Tie .
I use the Rubber band so that the ZT won’t hurt the plant .

Ed

[JoeP450]

Zands- my thinking on zip tie vs clothes pin is that zip tie provides a better form fit to any thickness branch you are grafting with concentric pressure evenly distributed vs a clothes pin acting off a fulcrum and pressure maybe less evenly distributed, also don’t think the rubber band is necessary 🤔. Really looking forward to next season to graft up some more annonas and mangos, growing out some rootstocks now.

-Joep450

[zands]

Thanks Joe and Ed for the replies and further information. My grafting has never turned out well but I will try with zip ties next year.