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Graft budding -questions-

18 years ago

Hello,

This is the tree I had asked questions on before and now am at a different stage in the grafting process where I can use more advice.Remember this is just sort of an experiment.

I had purchased the young tree earlier last month only because I wanted to graft apple scions from a very old apple tree that's ready to come to its end.

The scions I took where not the best that I would have taken to work with but I took what the tree had to offer.

I made the grafts four in all. Two scions I grafted two weeks before the others. The limbs on the original tree that where left I cut back quite a bit plus I removed others all together.

Over each of the four grafted scions I placed a plastic bag

tied off at their bottoms. I did this last year and it worked well. Using the wax gets kind of messy. I am aware about the tape available also but still like this method,

Today to my surprise both of the scions that I grafted first have two buds on each one opening up. Now here are my questions.

Should I remove the bags altogether now or just untie the bottoms and open up the bag leaving them on for a while longer? The tree is growing in a 5 gallon plastic bucket under lights in my basement. I did not plant it when I bought it because it was still very cold here in zone 5. I placed photos below with the buds circled in red--hard to see because of the plastic bag.

What do you guys think?

Last photo shows the entire tree bags and all.

Thank you

Lou NE., PA

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