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Finally got citrus grafts to take! My mistakes

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Alippincott:
I just wanted to share my excitement as I finally had success with grafting scion wood onto seedlings. I used cleft grafts.

The things I learned to ensure success based on my failures:

Time of year; I tried in the spring time and it didn't seem quite hot enough to get the juices flowing. I tried early July this time and each one took.

Grafting tape; I originally tried some crappy stuff from amazon that was basically cling film plastic. I dished out the big bucks for buddy tape and man is it 1000x easier to use and more successful.

Grafting blade; I recently learned how to sharpen knives. With my new grafts, I used a freshly sharpened knife which makes the cuts cleaner and straighter, which helps with not having gaps in your graft union.

Rubber band; I just started using a rubber band to TIGHTLY wind around the union to ensure good contact.

Sunlight exposure: I am not sure how much this affects it, but I did not cover my graft with aluminum as often (only about 1 week) and let the grafted branch be exposed to sunlight more. I feel like I saw a video where that seemed to signal to the tree to push out growth.

Millet:
Congratulations

growinginphoenix:
I started getting good results with my citrus grafting this year too. Super exciting!

botanical pilot:
Found some success as well this year. Got New Zealand Lemonade and 2KR Lemon pushing. My Cocktail hybrid and Bearss lime are healed but haven't pushed yet. The Xie Shan mandarin and Atwood grafts failed completely.

We had a super cool June here in Portland which I definitely think slowed the healing process.

Walt:
I bought 4 Pt plants for grafting.  They arrived in good shape, but just after they got here the temperature outside went up to 107F, I think that is about 45C.  So it is very hot.  I have little experience grafting citrus, but I would never graft apples or plums in this heat.
I have 2 broken branches on good citrus that are still attached to the trees they were on and they still look healthy after a few weeks so I think they could be grafted onto 2 of the rootstocks using approach grafts.  I don't usually like approach grafts but it looks like they might work in this heat. 
The rootstocks came in 4 inch pots and I've transplanted them into 5 gallon pots.  I haven't seen any new growth yet and I think grafts might better wait for active growth.  I need advice.

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