I'm never going to go to that place in winter to get wood so it's out of the question. I just need one bud to take lol

I have rarely done it, reason being, it has no advatages for me,..got a Capilano Apricot growing on plum. It is easy, T-budding with parafilm tape ,..enough info out there,.. here is a video..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF4TQWgHU6U

mattpf, the University of Sask has a workshop on it every August, they had it last friday but I could not attend. Maybe they have some advice on their website.

I try it every year it's not as successful as scion or dormant bud grafting in spring?

I can do it no problem Konrad it's just the very low success rates.

I did about 20 in 2 hours yesterday. I think my only advantage is I can't get that wood in winter so I have to now. And time vs scion grafting is not comparable but my scion grafts growth trumps the bud graft any day

Keep trying, might be a timing issue...I don't like waiting, with a scion stick and 3 buds I'm ahead with branches by the end of season, versus one whip. Perhaps these people can send you some wood.

Who knows if it's even hardy enough for my yard? I 100% agree with you konrad. Some buds Grafts after 2 years still have not put out a branch just leafs on my evans. ive got some new growth from scions I did this April with 24" plus growths.

i have a root sucker about 1ft away from my italian that came up I'm growing it on ground with this apricot and peach grafted to it. I can simply leave it on the ground like black berry plants .

Also konrad is there a way for a person to keep wood alive from late sept to spring? I really am going to do anything to keep certain varieties in my yard. The superior plum trees I'm not sure how they will overwinter with such a late planting .it really is the cream of the crop hybrid plum people grow it in minnisota ,should be fine for a backyard in south calgary but not sure about farther north .

Last early sept a snow storm broke lots of trees .i lost grafts but left them covered on the ground with my grapes over winter. Spring came i regrafted them and i did not loose that variety as some I only have a branch or two of. I'm thinking of pruning once the leafs start to fall and cover the wood with my grapes or blackberry plants instead of keeping in fridge and worring about the moulding or drying out.

Yes..that can work better then in the fridge, what I have done is buried a little into the ground with sand.

I don't want to loose some of the peach and superior I have so Ill just cut them in fall and do that. Usually winter damage happens early on the peach.i have two variety of peaches one is pretty cool I found it growing in calgary along this old retired guys fence in a community south like mine. He let me cut some of it but the tree was already in full bloom so grafting was only successful with 3 scions but they grew a lot and he has been growing that peach here with no protection for 5-6 years now. The tree was in full bloom when I seen it and he told me he got fruit but they don't ripen in time in his rather shady location.

My apricots were done bloom 3 weeks before I seen that peach ,so with some love and but of crafty location I think I could possibly get them to grow and fruit easier than apricots do here. That peach has never suffered an inch of winter die back also he said. He called it a Chinese peach? Maybe it's like the manchurian plums and apricots more cold hardy from up north