Seanny
your approach graft looks to have 2 different diameter branches contacting each other?? am i seeing that right?
shouldn't they be the same size so the cambien matches up
Bob,
You can think of an approach graft as a bark graft, without cutting the scion off the donor.
Peel a strip of bark off the rootstock.
Slice a veneer of bark off the scion.
Wrap them.
Rootstock can be much bigger than scion.
No need to remove wood.
No need to line up.
If you do the textbook way, you need to remove wood.
So you have to line up the cambium.
I do approach a little differently.
I remove a ring of bark on the scion, right below the part for where I would graft.
I scrape off the cambium, like doing an air-layering.
I peel a strip of bark off each rootstock and each scion.
I wrap them.
Below the graft is the wood of the scion, without bark.
All the hormones from the scion goes into healing the graft instead of going down to the donor roots.
I forgot to remove ring of bark at graft time.
So I had to remove it later, lower than where I liked.
