FIG GRAFTING

[Figgerlickinggood]

Have you ever tried patch bud grafts?

I’ve never heard of that type of graft before, wonder if anyone has posted a video on YouTube of it.

 

[SpiritFarmVa]

I’ve never heard of that type of graft before, wonder if anyone has posted a video on YouTube of it.

There are videos on it even specifically for figs.

 

[TorontoJoe]

Wondering when one would use patch versus chip (or vice versa)?

 

[DianaNE]

I saved some pencil size scions to graft on my Olympic rootstock. I plan on doing it around the fist part of April when the rootstock start waking up. Most of my scions that I really want to succeed the bud nodes look so flat and indistinct that I wonder if they will ever take. Of course the nice looking buds are on the scions I have multiple trees of already. I will be using the modified cleft graft method.

 

[Trustyfarms]

Have you ever tried patch bud grafts?

I have not tried patch grafts as my chip bud, whip tongue, cleft and bark inlay techniques allow for excellent takes.

 

[Fig Gazer]

Have you ever tried patch bud grafts?

ONCE ,It sat there and did not grow and did not die . have had so much good luck with my other grafting tech. and good with one node/bud whip & toungh that never tried again .

 

[PapaFig]

I think Ross has a video on this method.

 

[bushdoctor82]

Is parafilm or similar always necessary? I watched a YT video from @MJFIGS (good content by the way) of him performing a v graft - not sure if that’s the correct name using parafilm and rubber. Can electrical tape or survey flagging or similar be used to secure graft, providing the scion bud isn’t covered?

 

[TorontoJoe]

Is parafilm or similar always necessary? I watched a YT video from @MJFIGS (good content by the way) of him performing a v graft - not sure if that’s the correct name using parafilm and rubber. Can electrical tape or survey flagging or similar be used to secure graft, providing the scion bud isn’t covered?

I've seen people use electrical tape successfully. You could certainly cinch it in tighter than parafilm. Maybe use something other than black to it doesn't get hot.

In Italy, when grafting olive trees... Usually bark or cleft... My cousins often tie with a heavy twine and cover in a coat of tar-like tree sealant... .Maybe tar! LoL!

 

[TorontoJoe]

Is parafilm or similar always necessary? I watched a YT video from @MJFIGS (good content by the way) of him performing a v graft - not sure if that’s the correct name using parafilm and rubber. Can electrical tape or survey flagging or similar be used to secure graft, providing the scion bud isn’t covered?

Would you mind linking the video here?

 

[bushdoctor82]

Would you mind linking the video here?

 

[TorontoJoe]

That's a beautiful graft!

I'm also loving that grafting tool. I wonder if the blades can be sharpened or if they're easily replaced? It seemed to cut through very cleanly

 

[SpiritFarmVa]

Is parafilm or similar always necessary? I watched a YT video from @MJFIGS (good content by the way) of him performing a v graft - not sure if that’s the correct name using parafilm and rubber. Can electrical tape or survey flagging or similar be used to secure graft, providing the scion bud isn’t covered?

Before the parafilm existed raffia was used to secure grafts. My experience with tape directly on the wood is it can peel off the bark if you try to undo it. The advantage to parafilm or buddy tape is it waterproofs the graft. It also eventually breaks down and doesn’t girdle the tree as some materials can.
Any material that can bind the union can work, they just need cut at some point in the future before they strangle the tree. Flagging tape can work too.