Some pictures of peach scionwood onto prunus americana root stock. I would have done the apples also but I'm conserned my daughter in law may get mad at me. She wants to learn to graft so tomorrow evening we will graft together.
I grafted all 10 root stocks via tongue and whip. Lesson learned... this is a fairly easy graft to cut but make the tongues long.
Rootstock on left, peach scionwood on right.
Match up the diameters of both and cut the whips to match on the rootstocks and scionwood.
Then cut the tongues and fit together. Don't overlap the ends the Cambian layer has to line up.
Then wrap the graft with parafilm to compress the wood and keep it snug.
Coat the parafilm with treecoat to seal it and keep it waterproof. if tip bud with a few buds that's ok. But if not a tip dab a little treecoat on the top where the scionwood was cut to length.
Set in bucket of water for a couple hours for the treecoat to dry and hydrate the rootstocks. Don't forget to label them, so you know which variety was grafted on the root stocks.
I'll pot all these together in a 3 gallon pot with cheap rural king bagged topsoil for now.
We'll see what becomes of these graft attempts. I did my imperfect best
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