Excelent. Your tutorials are always so good. I dont grow citrus, but I'am sure this is aplicable to temperate fruits.

Fabulous tutorial, Joe. It is a great deal of work to prepare something like that: planning, tools, photo session, text prep, photo imbeds, etc. Thank you on behalf of many of us.

You illustrate, in great close-ups, the things that experienced grafters don't think to include because they're so familiar with the subject whereas the beginner is confounded by the absence of such things.

Tony

Let me add to the applause. Superb, accessible, intelligent, and even well-photographed!

Thanks.

M

Joe,

Thanks for posting another superb tutorial. You have a great talent for teaching. I can't wait to try this when the weather warms here.

I recently attended a nut growers meeting. Many of these people use cleft grafts. How do you compare cleft grafting to your bark grafts?

Marc

I have slightly more failures with cleft grafts than bark grafts. With persimmons for example, bark grafts are 100% success when done when the persimmons start to leaf out. With cleft graft, I've got about 33% takes only. With apples and pears, cleft graft and bark graft are 100% takes. However, can't do bark graft during late winter when bark aren't slipping but cleft graft works 100% take with apples and pears.

Thanks! Nice tutorial Joe! As always your knowledge and instructions are invaluable. I had success with grafting but by picking up a few more tips from your demo I think I'll have a bit higher success now!