So – how long can you store scion wood ?
large doubtfulness . I ’ve wonder how retentive scion wood can be stored without giving up the ghost … and now I know some can last a LOT longer than you ’d cogitate .
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It ’s amazing what you recover when you ’re clean out the refrigerator .
Those Illinois Everbearing mulberry scions have been in the crisper draftsman since FEBRUARY .
unbelievable .
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Now – back to the issue at hand !
Storing Scion Wood
The expectant thing with storing scion wood is to keep a right wet content . Too wet is a bad idea – and too wry will kill it even nimble . You ’re poise between buncombe and desiccation .
Steven Edholm talks about his memory board and cargo ships methodshere .
This spring he aim the time to talk grafting with me for an hour or so and really filled in the gap in my knowledge , and for that I ’m very grateful . I tend to acquire a lot through experimentation but I ’m still always hunting for mentors on topics I have n’t mastered . It ’s skillful not to reinvent the bike . After doing dozens of graft , I finger quite confident in my power so I figure it ’s time to start sharing my knowledge here … but Steven has done jillion , so just keep that in mind .
As you ’ll see in the video , I simply spritzed the mulberry scion wood with water so they were slightly dampish , then lay in them in a formative store bag in my fridge . I have a feeling they ’d keep all the room until springiness if I let them . It ’s amazing how resilient dormant Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree can be . I found out their major power by doing nude - theme transplanting this fountain before bud break … you could just deplume a peach tree out of the ground , rap the dirt off the roots , then pop up it in another maw and it would exist . I did it . Do that in summertime and they ’re toast .
Do n’t be afraid to start grafting – it ’s a lot of merriment and leads to sugared effect , as give away in these awing plums I reap this summertime from an improved plum tree Natalie Wood scion I tacked into a Chickasaw plum tree last spring !
Start planning ahead for spring now … and you ’ll harvest some cherubic results !
