Bob:

Budding out of the rootstock can occur when there are dormant buds present on the rootstock below the graft. Just to clarify, what percentage of the rootstocks are budding? Your msg could be read to mean you grafted 25 scions on a single G-11 rootstock, but surely that is not the case.

It is fine for the rootstock to be waking up before the scions, but do not allow buds from the rootstocks to survive. Rub them off as soon as you see them. This will channel the energy from the roots into the scions, where it is supposed to go.

I hope your scions are not drying out. Drying can be prevented by wrapping scions in parafilm or using a product such as Wilt Pruf.

Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA

Jellyman very little budding on the rootstock, and this is 25 different trees hopefully all will take? This is the first time I've tried to graft? thanks