Mango Grafting Essentials | Episode 1: Top Cleft Graft

Here's the first graft of our mango grafting series: the top cleft graft!

How to Prepare Mango Graftwood (Scions)- 2 Ways!

[StarvrosMitchell]

Lovely, absolutely lovely. Thank you so much. Your content is invalueable

[kittybunnyd]

Chris thanks for the great video. One more step that i personally do after i wrap graft with rubbber band is i cover my rubber band with buddy tape or parafilm. I am in Arizona so that extra step ensures my rubberband stays secure . I learned to do this because our harsh sun in the desert usually decays the rubber band more quickly. @ Dale you can use any rootstock to graft but 1. Make sure its healthy and well watered 2. Vigorous 3. Actively growing as you are grafting 4. Make sure you prep your scion as chris recommends. I graft my guava, orange and pomegranate ice using cleft graft and i have 90% success rate. Just practice with your other non fruiting trees...i learned from Chris' videos and lots of practice ...now its comes easily to me. You can do it!!

[thegrstm]

Gr8 video… hope to seed progress video follow Ups.
Also Chris… I know you will cover veneer/side grafts… I hope you can also cover bud grafting… maybe get Alex from Tropical Acres to demo.
I also would like to know what you do to raise seeds to grafting size and beyond. Minerals, fertilizer, watering, humidity etc. we are working on SoCal sources of non refrigerated mango fruit for seeds. Cheers, John

[blknblue]

GREAT video. I grafted 7 varieties onto a mango stump from my tree that was blown over during the last hurricane (we had to cut it down since it was so heavy and on my neighbor's fence). I used this grafting technique on 5 scions. I am excited to see if I was successful in my 2nd attempt at grafting1

[SteveSmith-xfju]

Great video and clear instruction, thank you for showing this technique. I have got my buddy tape and I am going to give this a go.

[zaily]

Thanks so much for your videos. We learn a lot from you.

[ShaggyDogg]

Awesome! I love grafting! It's a dying art!

[chanbru]

Great video! If I may, I’d suggest a close up showing the wedge and the incision in the rootstock.

I would like to request a videos explaining what to do in case the grafting fails. Regraft, let rootstock recover or buy a plant from you? 😉

Thank you for your awesome instructional videos!

[gagouche]

Since the most important thing is to make sure the cambiun layers made contact. Can the scion be inserted at an angle to make sure that the cabium will make contact in at least 2 different positions?

[evemada]

Does one wrap the whole Scion including the bud on top? 🙏🙏 Thank you for great videos for beginners like myself

[burkluca]

Do you leave the tape on the scion even after it develops growth. I saw that plants can pierce through parafilm but I appreciate your expert opinion

[elenilagan]

Hi Chris….. is it possible to graft a slightly bigger scion to a narrower rootstock?

[saltychristian]

Could you do the same thing with a root stock that's already Y'd? Or better yet could you top graft on both branches of the Y, or would you have to cut the Y off and graft right below where you cut it off from?

[sosetel]

Hello miss, a few weeks ago I cutted my damaged mango seedling wich is about 4 month old, there was a little bulb that seems to produce leaves, it died too and I cutted 1 more centimeter and covered it with a drop of wax, what do i do now for more leaves to appear? Please tell me🙏

[mauric]

Little late to the comments but would appreciate feedback from anyone so please @me.

At what point can you either re-pot the grafted root stock or plant in the ground? I guess im actually asking when do know your graft has been successful so you can move forward with planting?

[dalethompson]

I have tried grafting three times and failed all three times I have been using route stocks grown from Valencia pride mangoes. Can you use any type of mango seed grown to a seedling, to graft on to? Or is one type of ceiling better than another for grafting on to?

[SL-urvt]

Can u do the grafting the same for sugar apple?

[HeavenSentASMR]

What temperatures do u want for mango grafting

[abuzar]

When do you take the plastic tape off the top part of the scion?