Grafting is amazing and here’s my perspective. I don’t know where you’re at, but around here it’s not too early to graft, but it is too early to see much activity. If your grafts have been outside in the Pacific NW within the last couple of weeks they were likely sporting snow! We’ve had some unusually cold weather. Buds on my apple and cherry trees are quite tight with no signs of swelling.

Whatever you do – don’t peek! I suppose if you don’t see any activity as other fruit trees in your location naturally leaf out - though grafts are usually a bit later - you could assume the graft didn’t take and carefully unwrap it to look… Be prepared to graft it again. If this is a ‘bench graft’ and doesn’t take, the rootstock will likely begin to sprout leaves below the graft. If you had any dormant scion wood left (we’ve not even had our society scion exchange yet) you could cut below the failed graft and try it again.

Keep us posted…