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Ben ny, if you can do tongue and whip so easily, stick with it. It is the strongest graft. I find it hard to do tongue and whip, very seldom will my scionwood match with branch. Only if I find a match in the branch orientation that I want to, for sure, I'll be doing a tongue and whip. That is why I don't use it that often but it will be my preferred method. If I don't care where I graft by just finding a matching diameter, then I would TWG very often. But I always think about before grafting a scionwood so that they won't shade out each other or that cold hardier tops should be on the top and the more vigorous types are towards the north, then my choices of matching sizes dramatically reduces to near zero. Althoug you can TWG for non-matching sizes by aligninf one side, that is when bark grafting becomes better especially if the sizes are big mismatch. But I want the TWG most of the time if it can be done when there are matching sizes.

Thanks for the information Joe. That's very important to me.
When I was doing the grafting and T-budding in the past I did not think of weather they are north side or top or bottom of the tree. I just did them just where I can find them accessable. As you can see my grafts were all over the place. And also thought that once the grafts took and that branch grew and matured they all would be as strong as the original.
I was looking for a graft that would be the easiest and comfortable to do and I find that your method fits the bill.
And in the future I'll keep that in mind what you just told me.
Thanks.

Benny

oh-oh. Better watch out!
I've got 198 views with this one. Two more views will be 200.

Prince Ranier Cherry picture taken 4/30/06

And this prince ranier was grafted to a stella cherry (reposted to show that grafting can be done with this cherry).

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And Joe, here's how the green gage fruit look like. Photo taken 4 30 06

Imagine when it was raining hard not too long ago this plum and cherry trees were flowering and now they are fruits. Won't be long when summer comes their color will change.

That's an Asian Green Gage plum.
Gotta have that one next year!!!

Joe:
Thanks! You just gotta love it. Last year, when I found out that they were riped, I couldn't leave the tree until I ate every ripe ones on the tree. Then I felt guilty afterwards because then I thought my wife and my 3 kids. I thought I was just tasting them.

Benny

Here's the progression of Lou's pear with Joe's bark graft on 4 10 06
And I looked this afternoon and seems much longer now.

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