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| Grafted Chestnut Saplings. 4.4.17 |
It's always amazing to me that bare root trees can survive, take off and grow. I hope these do the same.
This completes the various things I wanted to do with the huge area of blackberries that I spent a year clearing. Now there are 3 chestnut trees planted, and a dawn redwood. The forest edge has perennials that I salvaged / rescued from the old yard, and the Hawthorn trees have grafts of Chinese Haw, Quince, and Asian pears, for fun/. The back is planted with a row of Cypress, for privacy, reduce invasion from wild blackberries, and to prevent erosion.
Question: When does one remove the tape where the grafting occurred? My new plum is grafted.
ReplyDeleteI usually remove the tape when the graft has grown at least a foot. In my experience, by then the graft union is strong enough to support the growing top. I've waited longer, but by the time the growth is 2 feet, the tape seems to constrict. With less vigorous species, I might remove sooner if it looks like the graft took but just not growing yet - persimmons and ginkgo.
ReplyDeleteIf you mean the tree that you bought still has grafting tape on it, I imagine you can remove it now. I doubt they would sell a tree that didn't already have a firm graft union.
Just saw a dawn redwood at the botanical garden in SF, wow what a nice tree with a wider canopy then the sequoia.
ReplyDeleteMine is starting to leaf out now. They are really beautiful.
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