How to Graft Peach Trees (Also Works on Plum, Apricot, Cherry, and other Stone Fruit!!)

When you want to add additional types of fruit onto a tree, grafting is usually the best option. Grafting is the process of inserting a shoot or bud from one plant into another. It's an ancient technique that has been used in horticulture for centuries but with recent advancements, grafting can now be done at any time throughout the year!

In this video you'll learn how to do it and also see some examples of plants grafted together. Charles from @IVOrganic walks us through how to graft a peach tree to a "peacotum" as the first grafted fruit on our "Fruitenstein".

00:00 Intro
02:08 Why THIS tree?
04:20 Choosing a Location
05:28 Making Room
06:30 Lining up your Graft
07:15 Does Grafting Change the Type of Fruit?
08:11 Prepping Wood for the Graft
12:25 Securing the Graft
14:26 Protecting the Graft
16:00 When to Separate The Trees?
17:33 Graft Plants in the Same Family
18:52 Choose Method by Time of Year
19:30 Start with Small Donor Wood
21:02 Conclusion

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[silviuvarzaru]

Grafting is a trial and error process. Keep trying, never give up. The success can be surprisingly rewarding.

[IVOrganic]

You & your team did an awesome job explaining our grafting lesson! Please keep us posted on your grafting Fruitentein successes!
Charles 🤩🙌

[ChadGardenSinLA]

Tis the season that Home Depot is currently selling bare-root fruit trees and shrubs. Thanks for sharing the approach grafting technique using a whip & tongue graft. I 'discovered' this technique with braided trees and shrubs like money tree, ficus, & hibiscus. The braided trunks eventually fused on their own creating a singular trunk. For beginners, I've found approach grafting to be the most successful and least risky grafting technique as the scions still have their own root systems to keep them alive as they graft onto the root-stock.

[scooper]

In late 2022, after a very mild autumn, a sudden hard freeze (lows of around 10 F) killed the above ground part of a peach tree I bought that year at a "big box" store. Apparently, it didn't have the opportunity to go dormant before the extreme cold hit. I noticed the damage in the spring of 2023 when it failed to leaf out. I cut it off at the base, and to my surprise, it sprouted shoots a few weeks later. I was informed by folks on a gardening forum that the sprouts were from the root stock and the tree would need peach-producing scions grafts. I removed all but the largest sprout, and, over the course of the summer, that sprout grew into a rather large "sapling" about 6 feet tall.

I ordered peach scions this spring and they arrived in good, viable condition. I watched YouTube videos, including yours, on grafting, and, after cutting the rootstock tree to about 3 feet tall, attempted to graft two scions about 5 weeks ago. I placed the remaining scions in a vase of water and put them in a little used basement refrigerator. Following the instructions from YouTube, I put tape around the spot where the scions were grafted and the top of the stump of the rootstock tree. I also placed a large water-proof mailer over the scions to further protect them from water. I cut open the bag this week and saw that the scions had died.

This week I checked on the scions in the refrigerator, and, I was shocked to see that, not only were they still alive, some had actually started to bloom! I have two questions:

1. Should I reattempt to graft the remaining scions now? Or wait until the fall?
2. If I graft now, should I use the scions that are producing blossoms or ones that have just buds?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

[cascades]

Whatever happened to the update on this one? Love to see the results.

[TurtleNugget]

Dayum he's knowledgeable. Love it!

[hellfooliver]

I'll definetely do this when I move out! So amazing!

[johanconradie]

'peachnecprunplumcotcheral' : I have several with! flowering peachplumal also on same tree !!! taught by Charles 'approach grafting' !!!

[jordansjournal]

Our local dump was built right on top of an old homestead and the entire fenceline of it is covered in these amazing pie cherry bushes that I am obsessed with and steal way too many cherries from every Summer (if someone else doesn't beat me to it). Last year I planted some cherry trees, but one died past the graft, and while the roots are completely fine, the tree itself isn't actually alive. So where I've been painstakingly trying to root cuttings of the dumpcherry trees for more than a year now, I'm excited to go the mad scientist root instead and graft a few onto my sad little rootstock come spring

[jameslooker]

So we never get an update on the Peach graft?

[Grey-Elder]

I have a wonderful peach tree, what other trees can I graft this beautiful young peach onto?

[lewis]

I found out It takes exrea steps/ far more work to use T-grafting onto peach trees. The bark does not separate easily/ cleanly like apple tree bark seems to. I have to use a X-acto knife to peal the bark back, then scrape the rest of the bark off the white solid part of the tree before I can put in the scion. It still seems it will likely work.
I will see soon.

[mycozygardencottage]

That was very helpful information! Thank you! I have two peach trees that I sprayed with Bonide Citrus Fruit and Nut spray a couple of years ago. The first tree I sprayed died down to the root stock. The other tree is great. The dead tree grew back into a monster of a tree, produced dozens upon dozens of little whitish green peaches that are sort of edible but not very good. The trunk is about 10 inches around (in one year of growth!). Do you think I should use it as a grafting stock?

[jenn]

Great lesson in grafting! It looked like you chose a scaffold branch (for the rootstock) with a few branches already on it, will you be pruning back the rest of the rootstock branch once the graft takes?

[BC-hrof]

can that grafting be done with cuttings 🤔 … similar to citrus 🤷🏻‍♂️ … oh, please show in October the results of this grafting 🤠

[Poliwaggle]

What was the tree you’re grafting it onto? I haven’t heard that name before.

[christianlloydcomia]

Beautiful Stonefruits i am jealous because in the Philippines 🇵🇭 we can't plant those Fruit because is not Sub-Tropical like SoCal.
Only Tropical Rainforest.

[emanueldelgado]

I have multiple capulin cherry seedlings (Prunus salicifolia) and heard cherry and plums are not as compatible as they say i was wondering if at least one would take if I used them as rootstocks ?

[alexbourgon]

Will this work with blackberries too? Blackberry is a stone fruit

[inethomas]

I'm in west palm beach fl. I have a Peach that fruit
What other fruit I can graft on this plant? And how do I get sicon.