I'd want to brag too. Way to go!!

It might be too early to give up on the pear and those other two apples. Sometimes they take a while.

Good for you.

Best,

Mark

Congrats, Garbird. What type of grafts did you use? Had the trees pushed buds yet? Did you wrap the entire scion?

I attempted the same number of grafts We'll see in a couple of weeks if my rookie attempts work out as well as yours.

Marc

All were whip grafts. I only taped over the grafted part to seal up the wound. When they started to sprout leaves, I noticed that one piece of tape had fallen off. While looking at the graft I noticed that it had already grown a callus over the cut parts, and the two parts where starting to fuse together. I re-taped the graft to add support for a while longer. How long do you usually leave the tape on your grafts?
My next project is to learn how to post photos from my new digital camera.
Thanks for all the good advice from you all.

I agree - don't give up on the other grafts. I've had some grafts take weeks longer than others and by then I've given up on them and they are no longer labeled. Did you use any wax to seal up over the tape? If not how did you keep the scions from drying out? I use masking tape and leave it on for good - the tape will split and fall off eventually. Congrats!

Well I guess I just got lucky. I did not use wax or anything over the tape. The scions must have just been really juicy. I collected the scion wood a month before the root stock arrived, and kept them in a bag full of wet sawdust in the bottom of the refrigerator. When the root stock got here I grafted them that night. I was very careful to tape two layers over the entire graft to seal them quite well. I wrapped up and then back down the stem, and finnished the tape with a small piece of electrical tape to keep it from unravelling.

Also to answer Marc5's other question, the trees were all still very much dormant when I collected the scion wood. I started the grafts the first week of April and it seemed like a long time before the first buds began to swell, but it was only a little over two weeks. Now they seem to get bigger buy the hour. I will definately do this again next spring. I want to have a few more varieties in my little hobby orchard ,so I'm hoping to have this much luck again next time. I can't beleive I waited 47 years to try this!

guys let me join you too. i did T bud grafting last August, just 2 buds of pears. gues what i noticed some green pointing comming out from the bud. buds were soooo miniature and i thought they will freez here in Ontario but they survived and i am sooooo happy. those were red clapps and/or flemish beauty buds grafted onto Bosc pear.

guys, could you tell me is it to late or it's OK to do twig grafting, i don't know proper name for it but i mean one little cutting onto another branch (host). is time gone or i still can do it?
i am so anxious to do it although i really never did it.

I have to say you guys are correct again. I went to the back where I sat the trees that I thought did'nt take the grafts to see if the root stocks were still alive, and the pear graft has several green leaves comming out. All the root stocks are putting out new growth so I'll keep them to use next spring. I am starting a new garden journal tonight to keep records of everything. I never kept a journal before and now I can't remember what type of pear I grafted.
Garbird

Wow, you're all making me wish I had tried grafting like I was thinking of doing this year. I have a male mulberry tree and I've always wanted to graft a female branch onto it so I could get fruit.

Radovan- Congratulations on your t-buds. And, it's not too late for cleft, whip and tongue, and so forth now if your scions are still dormant. I don't know what Ontario's climate is like, but I'm a little south of you (Missoula, MT) and we're "twig" grafting right now. (Not that I do a lot of them, but it's time and will be for another week or two, no problem.

And Karen, it might not be too late for you if you can find anybody who can get dormant scions to you right away. And, you have to start sometime, might as well practice this year and perform next, if it comes to that.

Good luck all!

:-)M

ps- Flemish Beauty is a delicious pear, IMHO, but do watch closely for fireblight.

Congrads on you new hobby. I grafted pears and apples on the first of april with about 16 out of 20 takes. All my graft were cleft technique learn on youtube "fruit tree grafting".I used only electrical tape and wrap it real tight starting from the bottom up. No wax. I had 9 different pears grafted on my starkbros giant asian pear. I am looking forward for them to fruit in the next couple of years. I never thought I could do grafting. But the video make it so easy. I will try the saddle graft technique on youtube next april. It lookd pretty cool.

Good luck everyone.