Grafting Project Update: Feral Black Cherry. 28 Apr 24.

 For several years of dog walks, I watched after road mowing crews mowed off the side of a large feral black cherry growing in the county roadway easement.  When I could access the cherries, they were delicious and different from the usual sweet cherry, black and with a "black cherry flavor".  

I salvaged some sticks and grafted to a sour cherry (I think North Star?') that wasn't mature yet,  headinf there. I thin that was two, but maybe three, years ago.

Here are those black cherry branches now.

They are much more vigorous compared to the sour cherry tree.  The big tufts of flowers, are the feral black cherry.  The more sparse flowers are the sweet cherry.

I think I can prune back the black cherry about 1/2 after they bear.  There are some sour cherry wild seedlings in the duck yard - maybe I can graft onto those, and try to preserve the original sour cherry.

Up-Potting Tomato Seedlings. 27 Apr 24.

 I repotted more than half of the tomato seedlings.

Apple Grafts Update. 27 Apr 24.

 A number of the apple grafts have growing buds now.

Ginkgo Graft Update. 27 Apr 24.

 The buds seem viable and swelling now on the ginkgo grafts.

More Fig Tree Air Layers. 27 Apr 24.

 After looking at various websites, some say one-year old wood is suitable got air layering fig trees, while others say three to four year old wood will work.   No harm in trying older branches as well.

So I set up an air layer on Lattarula on what looks like three or four year old wood, and the same for Violette de Bordeaux.  I also set up an air layer of Violette de Bordeaux, on first year growth.

The Lattarula is full of brebas now.  I removed the brebas from the branches that I air layered.

I decided with the last couple of air layers, to use string for fastening the Aluminum foil.  One of the web pages I consulted (forgot which one ) recommended that to allow for inspecting for root growth.

Now it's a matter of time.  A month, two months?