Recent content by Trav

I'm sure it's too late, but RoundUp-glyphosate works by killing amino acid creating bacteria in the soil, so you can't kill a plant growing in your tree's roots by spraying it without affecting the soil where your trees roots are, and therefore your tree. Good old-fashioned salt is overlooked as...

For good scions, they rarely even get to 1/2 inch 3/16 to 3/8 is about the size that you want, vertical growth, usually waterspouts on branches or near last year's pruning cuts are the best ones to take. You want that nice fast growing smooth wood, not the curly, knotty fruiting wood, that's a...

You didn't do everything wrong! The wax looks nice, but you did miss the Parafilm! I swear if you Parafilm your scion and do everything wrong you'll still get 50%! And on a more serious and scientific note: Yes! I have it on good authority that Bud 9 apple rootstock is fully compatible, as...

I'd say it's almost definitely a Callery pear seedling, I had a couple that looked just like that on my property, here's the interesting one, my Apple-Pear Frankentree. So typically people would graft asian pears or pears on these. But on Callery pear seedlings apples seem to be compatible too...