Grafting stone and pome fruits
Grafting Stone Fruits, Pome Fruits
Hire Judy to graft your pome (apples, pears, quince) or stone fruit (peach, plum, nectarine, pluot, apricot, etc.) trees.
The best time to graft is from January to April.
Tell me what type of trees you're grafting, what kind of fruit you'd like, and I'll email you the varieties
from my garden that I suggest.
I bring scion wood and my tools and do the grafting for you! Email me through my Contact Form.
What is scion wood?
Scion wood (or budwood) is a piece of a tree, usually a small shoot, that can be attached (grafted) to another tree and begin to grow as a branch. It will produce fruit the same as the parent tree, even though the tree it is grafted onto is a different variety. Most commercially grown trees start their lives as grafts, attaching budwood onto a rootstock. The rootstock is specially bred for certain characteristics, such as ability to produce a great deal of fruit, or to resist rootknot nematodes, or tolerate clay soil.
Grafting is different from propagation, where you take a cutting from an existing tree and root it into soil or a rooting medium like potting mix. Once it begins to take root it can be potted up and eventually planted into the ground. Examples of trees that do better with propagation than grafting are: figs, pomegranates.