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Vlad

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Can I graft now?
« on: September 27, 2021, 10:36:56 PM »
I am thinking of ordering budwood from CCPP  to graft onto some of my trees. My trees will be overwintered indoors at about 65F with artificial light in mid October. Can i do it now or should I wait until until spring?

orangedays

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Re: Can I graft now?
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2021, 09:52:23 AM »
I don't know if the fall is a good time or not.  But last fall I made a large number of grafts and set them in a cool green house where the temperature at night was often only 4 or 5 degrees F above freezing in mid winter. I checked them frequently and though the scions stayed green nothing happened. They were grafted on the PT seedlings.  When spring finally rolled around they started to grow.  So I may have done better waiting until the Spring.  Since you will keep them warmer, and maybe not onto PT root stock your grafts may not wait until Spring to grow.