Now if only you could send some my way here.....

Hi Benny-
All those citrus look delicious..Please let us know how the PAGE is tasting....I decided to let mine growth without the fruit this year, but it's already putting on many flowers for this year. I heard it is the best flavored orange/mandarin.

EZ:
My Page is not the best orange here. I just use them as juice because they are tart and not that sweet. Millet said the reason being not enough heat is generated in the Summer.
If you grow Page at your placeyou have no problem with the tempt there so you will have the best tasting page there is.
When is the best time to graft your plums? Now?
I just graft a yellow plum to my Satsuma plum but I am not sure if they will take.

Plums can be grafted from dormant period up to bark slip. When they are dromant, cleft grafting, tongue and whip and perhaps chip budding would be method of choice. When the tree bark is slipping like now, T-budding and bark grafting would be my method of choice.

Practically, you can graft plums or apricots the entire year with success. I have done it to see if I can counteract the driest hottest summer days and the coldest winter nights of the year. All were successful with my experimentations.

Peaches are challenging to graft, it hs always been my lowest success rates. Aside from citruses, Persimmons are now one of the easiest to graft with very high success rates. It has to do with timing for me. I graft persimmons via T-budding or bark grafting after the first tiny leaf on a branch that will be grafted has unfolded. The aftercare requiring you to remove without mercy all growth below the graft is a must.

If I were to rank the following types and methods:

Citrus - easiest to do with T-budding. Minimum use of scionwood. Spring time or late winter during a growth flush or anytime the barks are slipping.
Apple, Pears - best to do during dormant period to free up your time.


will edit this later as I am about to leave for work....

Thanks for the info Joe.

Although this is out of topic I need to know ASAP just what type of plant can you graft an Apricot, To a plum tree? Cherry? Plout? Peach? Nectarine? Pearl?
All I want is abranch full of apricots not the whole tree.
Thanks!

Hi Benny. Apricot, Plum, Cherry, Peach and Nectarine are all compatable ... I'm not sure about Pearl & Plout as I'm not familiar with these varieties.

It is best to graft an apricot to apricot
Followed best by grafting apricot to aprium
then followed by grafting apricot to plumcot
then followed by apricot to pluot
then apricot to plum
then apricot to lovell peach

the above are almost always compatible grafts.

Now the next I have done successfully but the percent take or success is dramatically lower than the above.

Apricots on other peaches or nectarines
Apricots on Cherries

At this late in the season, I would do bark grafting.

Laaz and Joe:
Thank you, thank you very much for a quick reply. As soon as I received your reply I acted right away and grafted the apricot to my plout and satsuma plum so I don't have to put it on the ref for safekeeping.

This photos was late taken last month
This is a branch that I accidentally cut while moving the pot

It came from this Dancy Tangerine photo taken Jan 11 06

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So you coming to the citrus tour? Have sent you email on the details. You are just a stone's throw away from the place, while I have to drive about 160 miles just to get there.

Joe:
Yes, I am coming. What time will you be there?

Thanks so much Joe for inviting me. The scion exchange was a resounding success.
I took home a lot of rare citrus scions plus taste the sweetest mandarins and oranges that can be grown in my area and took home scions including pomellos such as Sarawak, Mijo to name a few, rare limes in Mexico and Australia and many types of avocados.
I also learned new ways how to T-bud.
I bet Millet would be delighted attending. Such a big place and such a scenery overlooking the Monterey bay and the beautiful hills around.