Grafting soursop Annona muricata

[Jose Spain]

Hi everybody.

I got a couple of thin branches of a good quality soursop and I'd like to graft them into my 4 months old seedling.

This is the seedling:




And this is the material to graft:





Which grafting would you use for such a thin branches? I'd like to keep the original variety of the seedling since I want to know which kind of fruit will produce and to allow cross pollination between the 2 varieties.

Thanks

[Vernmented]

Basic cleft graft has worked fine for me. I would defoliate the scion wood and wrap in buddy tape. Soursop is pretty easy to graft in my limited experience. With that healthy rootstock and fresh scion wood you should be successful.

[Jose Spain]

Thank you Josh, I'll have to do my best to make a cleft graft with that thin material. Let's see how it works! 

[kh0110]

Jose, see below, this graft will work on any size of scions as you only cut on 1 side and chip the nose of the other side. I mostly use this graft as it is super easy and has a very high success rate.

[Jose Spain]

Thank you so much Thera, those pics are really helpful! I'll try to do the graft exactly like that. 

[Zafra]

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?

[kh0110]

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?

Hi Zafra, it is very easy to get a straight cut on just 1 side. A wedge cut on both sides would have to be perfectly parallel to get a good match with the rootstock. So why do more work? This kind of cut can be done by anybody, no need to be an experienced grafter. The chip on the nose is just to match up with the flap cut of the rootstock, not really necessary either.

[Zafra]

I'll have to try it - I've got some avo grafts coming soon. Thanks again!