Sakura Grafting Update- how did my cherry blossom grafts do?
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- čas přidán 20. 04. 2022
- 6 weeks ago I harvested wood from trees on my road and stuck them onto rootstock in my first ever attempt at grafting. The question is- did it work? Can I come back next year and graft 50 cherry trees and make my own pink forest of wonder?
Apologies for the struggle with camera focus in this video. My phone camera doesn't do so well with skinny objects, even when the focus is supposedly "locked".
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Pretty good results. Reminds me of my wife's grandma "aquiring" plants and trees at the local nursey. Like "oops" did that bit of limb accidently fall in my bag 🙂. I am just getting into grafting. I wonder if you would have redid, as in made new cuts on the grafts that fell apart. I mean the root stocks all took, that half is established, just needed a 2nd attempt at the graft. I share your observations on grafting tape. Maybe where I have experience as an electrician, but electrical tape seems like it can do the same job, Lord knows I have used that tape as a bandage to graft my own broken skin too many times to count, sure it can hold two sticks together, thats what that tape does is pulls tighter with its elastic traits and stays tight with its gooey traits, plus keeps out bugs and water.
A couple of ones that failed have the rootstock growing on, so I may graft again on it next year
Nice overview 👍🇬🇧
Much appreciated
I think that's a brilliant outcome! Well done. You may be drowning in cherry blossom petals in a few years' time :-)
I hope so! They're very lovely. I might have a go at training one into a bonsai form, for portability!
@@Rumade That would be fab! I've always been curious about that process...it would be fun to watch.
Hi, has any of the trees survived?
I successfully grafted a flowering one onto my regular fruit cherry tree
Yes, 2 of them survived well in pots. A couple of others had graft fails, and some were destroyed when a neighbour took down a fence.
2 of my Bramley apple grafts worked too.
So if I get a branch from a Cherry tree now which is in blossom, the place it in soil with Alovera, will it develop roots?
I don't have experience with taking cuttings that way, so I'm not sure that would work.
What is the base tree?
It's a cherry root stock. I think I went for a dwarf one.
So i was looking at redit in britishproblems and got up to do something, came back and my mouse was over your name and I clicked, saw you had a YT channel and here I am.
Why do you cut off the tiny buds to stop them growing?
How the heck have you grafted two plants together like that, did not know that was a thing??
Would you ever hold a bee?
Hello! The tiny buds are from the rootstock, which is a tree that was grown for its strong roots. If they're left to develop they won't produce beautiful cherry blossoms, probably just wild type cherry flowers.
Grafting is really really common- nearly all fruit trees are produced this way, especially apples. Apples don't grow true to type, so if you plant a granny Smith seed, you won't get a granny Smith tree, you'll get a random apple tree that could produce sour or otherwise undesirable fruit. Grafting allows you to clone a desirable plant.
If you look at the video i did before this, with the similar thumbnail, you can learn more about it!
Yep, I've held bees, with bare hands too :)
@@Rumade i have too many questions about everything you just said...
@@Stedman75 haha! It's always fun to find the gaps in our knowledge, eh? I'm totally lost whenever anyone talks about anything to do with computer programming or physics!
I don't know what I am doing wrong. I have attempted grafting flowering cherry several times and they never leaf out.
It is quite tricky- only 1 of my original attempts has survived to this point. Might be worth seeing if there is a grafting course you can take in your area at the start of next spring and learn from a pro. Good luck!