Such a blessing!
When we moved to Arkansas from Wisconsin, we left behind a plum tree that we really enjoyed. However, because of the amazing skill of grafting, we may not have really left it behind. Check out this video for more!
THE BLESSING OF GRAFTING VIDEO
FULL STORY
Before we moved to the Ozarks just over two years, we began to gravitate towards the homesteading lifestyle. When we began growing more of our own food and began to enjoy eating of our own harvest, we had one particular plum that was very delicious. After enjoying it for some time, we had to leave it behind. However, we didn't leave all of it behind when we sold the house.
I took a few dormant cuttings of the branches and brought them down to Arkansas with me. Just leaving cut off branches laying around for a few years would not work. Soon, the dormant branches would die and dry up. However, there are a lot of young wild plum trees growing down here. Though I had never tried grafting any trees before, I literally had nothing to lose, so I gave it a try.
Thankfully, I had about a 50% success rate with my first attempts at grafting, and now, over two years later, I have the same kind of plum that I left growing in Wisconsin growing here in Arkansas. Now, when we begin to plant our orchards down on our land, I'll have the same variety here that we once enjoyed in Wisconsin, from the same tree!
I hope that this encourages you to learn and try new things! Pretty my whole life these days is new and I am constantly learning, so if I can do it, so can you! Steem on!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-grafting
Until next time…
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Grafting is so cool and it cuts down on the wait time to get your trees to fruit...
It sure does!
I have a professionally grafted Japanese plum tree, which originally had four varieties, but one broke off in a storm. Hopefully we're going to learn something about that in my permaculture class. http://sowpermaculture.org
hehe... i didn't know that you live at the Ozarks
it seems you are really good in grafting
n btw watch the movie Ozark
This is really something. Grafting is definitely a great way to revive a plant. Especially if you are trying to get good properties from two different species. Very nice method of keeping plants alive. Cheers!!
it will be really interesting to see if the fruit tastes the same or what sort of characteristics the soil and such impart.
Very cool! I want to do a lemon lime tree myself.
Good idea, I'm thinking of a mini key lime.
Great info about grafting. I had no idea how it worked. Also, great that you can preserve your old plum trees this way. I bet they'll be much happier down in Arkansas!
Thats amazing you are a Geneous when everything have to do with Nature.
hi. I do not say much. i like to see your photo. but I am scared. hhhhh sory
Nice. I would like to try as well. Now we have a bigger garden we have some opportunities to try out.
Thanks for your experience
I'd like to get an avocado tree, but they take a few years to get started. However, if you get a branch from a tree that is already producing, I hear that you can graft it onto a a new tree and it will still produce.
Very cool! That makes sense!
Grafting is always good but kinda risk, depend on atmosphere and it's very good especially when addicted to a particular fruit
God's really amazing...
How a whole new specie of the same plant can grow can by attaching the nodes.
Nice presentation @papa-pepper
useful science, worth trying, and this is a good post, thanks for sharing,@papa pepper
Good post Bro...
great, nice post!
Got job and useful @papa-pepper
Awesome stuff man. We have a mandarin tree grafted from my great grandma's old tree and its amazing. Fresh homegrown produce is the way to go!
Very cool. I've always wanted to try that but don't have the room. Good to see someone has made it work.
Grafting is awesome-- and sometimes you can get some really interesting results. As we see around town with some of the ornamental cherry trees, which are part pink and part deep red-- with different foliage, even, on the same root stock.
I wanna say there's actually something now called "fruit salad trees," but don't quote me on that.
Yeah, "fruit cocktail" trees, featuring a variety of either apples and pears or of peaches, plums, nectarines and apricots.
Interesting! I've successfully grafted some cacti, and seen some impressive specimens.
Cheers,
@dcj
Good post, I am a photographer, it passes for my blog and sees my content, I hope that it should be of your taste, you have my vote :D greetings
This is great @papa-pepper, grafting this tree.
Very cool example of grafting success, thanks for sharing.
Its cool, last month i was doing grafting with my guava tree that my sister gave to me, but its not ever 3 days survive. Maybe I don't know hkw to do the best way, l will try it again!
I have done that with citrus trees in the yard, its pretty cool to have a lemon/grapefruit tree. Its also not a bad idea for people with space limitations.
indeed amazing! in grafting, you could have different kinds of mangoes in one branch. this is really fun and quite productive. This is the thing that moved me! Thank you for posting this.
Sweet! Did you folks use electrical tape to hold the branch in place?
Yeah, we sure did!
That's great man, I do some bud grafting up here on my apple and pear tress to actually. It's so great to be able to have different varieties on each tree or self pollinating trees.
Can transplantation produce a better plum tree @papa-pepper?
I tried grafting on fig trees, but failed.Next to continue this Spring.
Wow @papa-pepper, when here at my city is booming about the plum fruit can be solution for lose weight, you have that tree that you can plant behind your house.. 😣
I really wanna live there.. 😮
LOL - Maybe you can move next door!
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Looks so cool, I wanna graft some bonsai! Good work @papa-pepper:)
We have an awesome apple tree that was grafted from trees in the okanogan. The amount of fruit it produces is insane. Nature is pretty rad.
as always @papa-pepper , i salute you for having those different set of skills for home steading and so kind of you to share it to all of us, and an amazing father to teach your kids @little-peppers of the natural ways to do things 👏👍❤️❤️❤️
Really cool. I went through the Ozarks back in Summer of 2016 on the way to Chicago. Just really unbelievably beautiful.
And good for you in that grafting. Sounds very resourceful. Something I need to try in the future
Thanks for the post @papa-pepper.gif)
It has been so long since I have even imagined grafting. I'm originally from Illinois and really enjoyed the prairie. You've got a great thing going on grafting the plum tree. You can keep us updated in the summer and see what kind of plumbs come up.
I learn a lot from every post you. all very interesting. hopefully i can like you always. and can fill the wallet with more hehehe .. thanks a lot steemian friends !!
That was a good strike rate for your first go. Next time it will be better, and in season, you will be able to get lots of different trees growing on the homestead.
Heard a lot about grafting and i read few things about it too but never really put it into practice. Good job you did there sir.
I want the apple tree in my dad's yard!
I need to learn how to graft something from that. The apples are HUGE and just amazing flavour. They are heritage apples from about the 19th century. So they have not been bred for a mass market. So yum!
I have almost 100% success with Chestnut (American and hybrid) and 0 with fruit trees. I wish you would demonstrate your technique in future.
If you start an orchard better to leave the already grafted trees out of it.
I did my first graft this year! Keeping my fingers crossed that it works! I grafted two different lemons. I am looking forward to seeing what grows, or not.
That is pretty cool. Well I lean heavily towards being self-sufficient, I wouldn't call myself into that homesteading lifestyle. I just don't like to be dependent on anyone else.
Having said that I have done a bit of reading but had never run into this in anything I had read. I had no idea that you could even do this with any modicum of success.
Very cool.
Wow grafting is amazing I never knew you could do that; thanks for introducing me to that. As for patenting a tree what rubbish, forget that some laws really are ridiculous. Enjoy ! 💯🐒