The vast majority of nurseries don't carry anything for grafting. Staples has the wide #84 rubber bands that I like to use for whip and tongue grafting. There's one in Washington Square area that I use. Also, you can order Doc Farwell's yellow grafting seal at Naomi's organic on SE 26th by Holgate. They have some now. Go quickly. If they run out, you can order more there.
Get it while you can. I did my first w and t grafts today. Pear on Mountain ash. Much more to come.
John S
PDX OR
This grafting cutter (url) seems like a very simple tool but you never know if it's as fast as claimed.
John, I would have started grafting pears and apples today for the first time too but I got side tracked and will start tomorrow. I like it when people start being creative mixing different things together. In order of simplicity I loaded each portion of two documents found online where in Oregon pear has been used or tried to be propagated on several rootstock forms. It's also quite interesting to me so maybe somebody else could appreciate them in Corvallis too. So when I copied this I also remembered to put in 2 links aimed back to the original content and publisher because I know this is important.
What about your grafting apple on ornamental quince and is it still alive? Is the sorbus-pear cross 'shipova' that you put on aronia still doing well? If it was me I think I'd rather want aronia on shipova because of the rich antioxidant components of aronia. The heavy flavor melows when honey is added in.
I tried a couple cultivars of pear on mountain ash in 2006. I did whip and tongue grafts as well as veneer grafts of Bella di Guigno and Red Bartlett. The grafts took and grew for a couple years. The union wasn't very good though, it was as if pears and mountain ash weren't 100% compatible. When the pear branches got bigger the graft didn't support well enough. Eventually all of mine failed. I will try grafting pear to mountain ash again. I cut some mountain ash suckers from my tree and planted in a sunnier area in the yard. I will try grafting onto them next spring if they have survived the transplant.
I exclusively graft comice onto mt. ash. Then I will graft other pears onto the comice, due to the OSU article on the internet that showed it is the only one that works that way.
I still have crabapples on Japanese flowering quince, but I'm not doing that any more because it's too small and thorny.
i wont' graft aronia onto shipova because shipova gets fungal disease. Shipova makes more sense grafted onto aronia because it makes it more precocious, a serious downfall of shipova, fungal disease being another. I do have many pears on aronia. Some show themselves to be more disease prone than others.
It's getting too late tonight. I've got to get up and go to work early.
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