{"id":8930,"date":"2020-01-31T14:27:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T22:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=8930"},"modified":"2020-01-31T14:27:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T22:27:19","slug":"grafting-deciduous-fruit-trees-in-winter-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/grafting-deciduous-fruit-trees-in-winter-in-southern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Grafting deciduous fruit trees in winter in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are excellent documents, videos, and books that can help you successfully graft deciduous fruit trees in the winter in Southern California. Directing you toward those is the main aim of this post. Secondarily, I\u2019ll note a few of my own preferences and tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before getting to the resources, let\u2019s remember why we graft deciduous fruit trees. You might want to add a pollenizer branch. (See more about this in my post \u201cGrafting a pollenizer branch into your fruit tree.\u201d<\/a>)\u00a0Or your friend might have a tree that makes delicious pears; grab a branch and graft it onto your pear tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might want to make a tree that has multiple varieties in order to save space. For example, I have a Snow Queen nectarine tree that I grafted Red Baron peach into. About two-thirds of the canopy is Red Baron peach. So with this single tree we get nectarines in June and then peaches in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might want to renew an old tree by grafting onto rootstock suckers. I did this with an old peach whose trunk was diseased. I\u2019ve ended up using the rootstock suckers to try out many varieties of peach and nectarine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dead peach trunk in center; rootstock suckers around periphery.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And on and on. Grafting can be used in myriad other ways. Only your creativity is the limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Videos about grafting deciduous fruit trees in winter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So who can help us graft with success? With the advent of YouTube, there are endless videos showing grafting, but here are a few that I find useful, particularly for grafting deciduous fruit trees, in winter, and in Southern California.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“How to Collect and Prepare Grafting Wood for Fruit Trees” by Mike Pace of Utah State University Extension. I’ve never bothered soaking my scions in a chlorox solution as Pace shows, but maybe that’s a wise safeguard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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