Mr. TEXAS, wish I'd read your post prior to grafting! This was amateur hour at best!! I slit rootstock and opened up both sides but it didn't go smooth! I struggled with one side and cut a little off the middle so slit sides weren't touching. Prepped the bud and made sure everything was completely sanitized, even my hands, with rubbing alcohol.. what do I do, I drop it in the dirt!! I put it in and had really good contact in back and one of the sides; one other side wasn't touching anything.
I then chip budded (hadn't read your post) and sure enough root bark was too big! I ended up having to put two buds just to fill the chip!! Of course those two buds fell on dirt as well...
LOOKS SO EASY ON UTUBE!!!
I'll wait 21 days and see if by some miracle, either graft takes..
Thanks for all the help!