Grafting Fruit Trees, Interstems, Compatibility between Cherry, Plum, Peach, Apricot, Apple-Quince

[ParadiseGardens]

This is so fascinating! I've been gardening for decades but this is my first time grafting. Thanks for sharing this valuable information ☺️

[ceciliashevlin]

Extremely interesting video! Thank you for sharing your experiments!

[XoroksComment]

The apricot I bought from a large tree nursery here in central Europe came on a plum rootstock (St. Julian A). It has grown very well so far for around five years.

[NazarHNasir]

Thanks for sharing this valuable video and all the information. It is the most beautiful video, full of experiments and practical knowledge. I have subscribed too.

[Veritas-dnss]

Here are a few more that work: Sweet cherry to Amur Cherry (Amur is zone 3), pear to Smoky Saskatoon (you get several years of production until the Saskatoon dies, graft at chest height only), pear to cotoneaster (a long term union and a dwarfing pear tree that only grows to about 8 ft. max, you need to have 2-5 cotoneaster branches under the pear graft to feed the roots), pear to apple M26 rootstock, pear to Winter Banana apple as an interstem on an apple tree. Pear and shipova on Mountain Ash always take well for me, but always die after one or two winters (but I'm in zone 3 with harsh winters).

[clintbrookes]

Great video, you’ve put in a lot of years work there, well done

[lanewaygarden]

Hi Nick, excellent video thank you for your knowledge and keep up the great experimental work.
Greetings from Melbourne Australia
Harry

[jedheart]

Thank you from Sacramento, CA. I have plums from the original home owner, several types. The original plum trees grow like weeds. They are not Marianna. I bought Marianna rootstock and growing them in pots.Matianna is not as dark red bark colored than the original which also are very hard. Those do not grow fruit or only a a few as in one or two if ever. I want to use an interstem between the original rootstock that grow all over the yard. If I don't cut them out every year, they grow fast, both tall and thick vs rootstock in dwarf trees I have planted in the ground. Nemaguard rootstock works very well in my Flavor Aprium. Not sure if I can use Nemaguard as an interstem or if I can use Marianna.

[michaldurana]

Is seems to be interesting and maybe useful to try on plum rootstock graft a pluot, on pluot plumcot, on plumcot an aprium and on aprium apricot :) ... Black apricot is an aprium I think and so it has better compatibility with apricot than with plum.. what do you think?

[gentiligiuliano]

Have you tried to use a cherry of secure compatibility on Z-stem and the incompatible one on the compatible cherry inter stock?

[goodmusic]

Thanks for this interesting video. I am planning to graft peach and plum on Nanking cherry as a dwarfing rootstock. I also have some seedling mountain ash to try with shipova, as you have done. It looks like you have had success using whip/tongue grafts with prunus — it seems most people prefer budding with stone fruits but I will be doing whip/tongue to see results the same season. I’d be interested in knowing if you have ever grafted both parts of an interstem at the same time, or if you typically graft the interstock the season before adding the desired top variety. Thanks for the great content.

[bryanbetournay]

What zone are you in Nick. Great video with a ton of advice!

[michaldurana]

Nick, thanks a lot for this great video. This is my most favorit topic. Please, can you write here the name of a hybrid between apple and quince (Sidolius???), and the name of the next hybrid species in 37:00 (upro 6???) I didn't catch that. Thank you very much.
Here in Slovakia I am trying to graft on wild hawthorns (they grow here everywhere) pears and apples. Pears are doing better on hawthorn than apples, so this hybrids you shown can be for me here the solution to make a bridge between hawthorn and apple.

[deborahw]

Do you happen to know if you could plant a plum tree into a cherry stump? I have an Italian plum in a pot right now, but it's about time to put it in the ground. The best spot for it just happens to be where a giant Japanese cherry used to be before it was cut down. The stump is fairly large, and I'm wondering if I can "plant" the plum inside the stump if I hollow it out.

[cowboy]

Have you ever experimented with grafting apple and pear to photinia? It seems to take and has lasted more than 1 year so far. Loquat can also be grafted to photinia and is done commercially in China.

[NasierOmran]

Whats your experience with crafting plum to cherry tree..? Or Mulberry on Fig?

[cowboy]

I wonder if you could use a bridge graft using an interstem on a graft that didn’t take well - kind of like you do when a tree is girdled?

[cowboy]

I have also experimented with ornamental hawthorn. The advantage there is it doesn’t have thorns.

[alfredopampanga]

Off topic. What is the plastic sheeting doing? Solarisation?

[CaesarP]

Can u graft a pear stem to a nectarine tree??