rootstock is huge so pinching things below the graft does nothing
Please explain.
Apical dominance is the release of hormones from tip of branch.
Hormones flow down the branch to inhibit new shoots below.
When I graft using cleft, or bark graft like above, I cut off the tip.
There is no longer any apical dominance so the scion is free to grow new shoots.
Why would I need to cut off branches below?
How do I multi graft a tree at different times if I have cut off old grafts to get new grafts? Ridiculous!
My mango tree is holding fruits.
I don’t remove any fruits nor any leaves nor any branches to graft another variety.
Graft is about to send out new shoots the 2nd time.
If you graft pencil sized rootstock, you need to remove new water shoots.
Otherwise, do nothing.
Mango tree with a branch 1” below cleft graft.
There is another branch lower on the left.
See new shoot from scion?
Atemoya scion on soursop rootstock.
Nothing removed below the cleft graft.