I received my new Emperor Lychee plant in the mail about two months ago and I noticed the other day that it is starting to push new growth. My recently transplanted Lychee seedlings haven’t fully recovered from the shock yet but I decided to try and innarch a couple anyways.
Here’s a picture of the Emperor with slightly chlorotic leaves and some hard water residue on the leaves
Here are some pictures showing how I try to line up the branches, notice how I marked the top and bottom boundaries of where I plan to make my cuts
The branches after I made the cuts
After wrapping with parafilm
In hindsight, I shouldn’t have been fumbling around trying to take pictures as the branches were very thin in diameter and they looked slightly dried out by the time I started wrapping. It was also very difficult to perform the actual wrap because of how closely spaced the small branches were on the Emperor Lychee. I don’t have much confidence in these innarch grafts because of the condition of my seedling rootstocks but at least I can try again if these first attempts fail.
Simon