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Also Another reason I like cleft grafts is that you can make cocktail trees. I'm space limited and can only have 10 mangos in ground, cleft grafting allows me to have much more variety.
You can do multi-graft trees with all popular methods. If anything, cleft and whip are more limiting when it comes to this. For example, if the trunk is an inch across and have no branching for 5 ft from the ground up, you can only make 1 cleft graft at a sane height. With approach, veneer, t-bud, chip bud, you can just graft to the bare trunk, at any height you want.
Sami
Julian Lara has a great video in YouTube on veneer graft.
As a beginner I would start with veneer graft it's the easiest. During the summer you don't need tp prep just time you flushes. You'll get about 4 chances during this time
There is magic to grafting it all about timing and the months when you preform the grafts.
Anonas:
March - May
Mangos:
Late June - August
Avocados
Spring to Fall
That doesn't mean you'll have no takes outside of these periods but these are the months you'll have greater success.
I did 15 grafts all failed. I'm hoping the last 3 I watched sapote do stick. He was very meticulous and delicate, I think I was being ham handed and just going thru the motions. Watching videos of farmers in India and Thailand whizzing thru graft after graft sitting on the ground is very deceptive. You literally need to have a surgeons focus.
That has been my experience with avocado grafting. I wonder if the SoCal low humidity has something to do with it.
I did 15 grafts all failed. I'm hoping the last 3 I watched sapote do stick. He was very meticulous and delicate, I think I was being ham handed and just going thru the motions. Watching videos of farmers in India and Thailand whizzing thru graft after graft sitting on the ground is very deceptive. You literally need to have a surgeons focus.That is some master grafting right there. Completely amazed.
You're giving me way too much credit here, Sami. If you looked carefully at the pix, you'll see the failed cut right below the bud. That was my 1st cut and it was way too large and too high. The 2nd cut was still way too large but just about the right height. A master grafter wouldn't make such mistake.
So you know, this was my 1st budding success after at least 10 attempts. And just when I decided to document the steps for troubleshooting, it worked out nicely.
depending on how my growth goes, there is a possibility. key is not just fresh, but how scions were prepped before harvesting. I usually prep them for over 10 days before I harvest and gives high success rates.
next time, graft in Summer. don't take chances. we had unusual warm weather late this year that provided success to lot of folks, but prime time to graft in So Cal still is Jul thru Mid. Sep.
For me, they put on a big growth spurt in Feb/Mar and again in Sep/Oct (all my trees are showing tremendous new growth right now).
If they are only in for 6 months then you might be right about them taking awhile to take. I think the spring push will be a good indicator of how they will behave. If your spring push is lackluster, then maybe something is wrong (fertilizer, water, soil, etc.)
