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How do you keep that from toppling over? Seems like it would be very top heavy, especially with the rack of bananas on it?
And it's next the walled fence which limits the direction of the Santa Ana wind that we get here in So Cal.
Impressive, kh! That's the most impressive potted banana I've ever seen. Is that an air pot like your others? Do you have a picture of how big of a bunch you get off of it? I can't imagine what that poor corm looks like all crammed in there!
Hi Thera, those pictures are terrific thank you for sharing them. Can I ask why you only chip the nose of one side instead of doing a complete wedge shape on the scion?
What does lifting the bark do, other than confirming that the bark is slipping? Does it induce better healing from the rootstock, or maybe suppress the rejection of the bud from the rootstock bark pushing it out?
The video has the guy prying open the bark ...
... Did you happen to get a Brix reading? My fruit were around 30% and tasted excellent. The early Fruit were lower Brix and had a bit less flavor.
Simon
"with no edge alignment anywhere"
Why do you think we need edge alignment? Only the Pep Boys people doing edge alignment with toe-in
Yes, the secret is the cut depth. I made first cut not deep to cambium, which gave me more insight for controlling the depth of next cut. Sink the knife at the top of the cut until hit the wood then back up about 1mm for 1st cut. For 2nd cut, sink the knife until touches the wood, then tilt the sharp edge up to pry the thin bark so the thin bark slips (or pop) off the cambium, and this is the correct depth to pull the knife down to bottom of the long cut, no more no less. Done.
Along the length of the long cut if the knife got in to the wood a little bit, no worry because there is plenty of good cambium contact remain for the scion. Don’t have to be 100% cambium interface to survive. If some sections not deep to cambium then easily just “touch up” again to slip the thin bark off to expose cambium.
I followed Walter Zill method top work my sister Home Depot mango tree 2 weeks ago. Yesterday I checked and had around 6 grafts and 100% took!!! I didn’t have store bought parafilm and just used strips cut from plastic bag. I covered the whole scion as he did, and then uncovered the top grow after 2 weeks. Not as hard as I had thought, even at end of October.sapote, next time please show/explain how you cut the rootstock. Walter Zill did not do a regular straight cut because the inside wood is untouched and just popped out and therefore leaving the cambium also untouched. This explains why this kind of graft works. The trick is in the cutting.
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