I study at the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece and our professor mentioned your videos at her slide show in the class as an example of work in grafting trees. I also watched the follow up that you made six months later. I didn't know how it looks like, now I do. Thank you for your time.

A damn genius in a cowboy hat. lol, the streets can't teach us everything.

You explained this very well! I'd love to see this tree today, any chance for an updated video ?

A lifetime of information in 561 seconds. Thanks dave.

Great teaching, brother. Thanks so much for all your wisdom. I knew NOTHING until now. You are my first teacher. God bless you, new friend.

Awesome video . Great job at explaining and staying on point. Thank you.

Nice explanation at the video. Nothing is more discouraging than people who think they can patent our food supply. We must overcome this mentality if we're concerned about leaving a functioning society for our children.

That grafting process is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Very informative and easy to understand. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Thanks for responding, Dave. Apprecoate your help.

Thanks for being so clear and descriptive explaining the various techniques for ensuring quality grafting. Excellent educational video for the community at large - keep it up!

Excellent video, excellently done. Here is a person who knows their stuff and can relate it well. Thank you for this video.

Excellent! Thank you Tom

Thanks for the video! Very well presented.

Simple and explained very well! I hope I can learn this technique.

Thanks for the great videos! Keep them coming.

Thanks! Good video for studing!

excellent technique, very clear. thankyou for sharing!

This was so helpful! Thank you’

I randomly got into this video. Never grown anything more than flowers in a pot, and probably won't get into this, but this is very interesting.

thanks for this video. iv never heard of grafting before and read about it recently in a watchtower article. such an amazing process that the tree can survive thru that.

Great video! lots of information delivered in an easy to follow way!

Awesome! Can't wait to try this!

Great work. Thanks

Awesome informative educational video! Thank you!

thank you very much for this video.

You are a master of fruit tree grow.

Super Video.Danke!

Thank you for posting the follow up! :)

Ever cool! Thanks!

Mind blowing 🤯 sooo interesting! Thankyou!!

Good on you mate. Thanks for sharing. Learnt how to graft :D. I will give it a go

THAT IS SO SMART, instead of using tape and cutting sections of it off

Hi Dave that was a nice video .. very informative thanks a lot .. good job

Great video, I love all of your videos!

Amazing video Thank you!!!!!

Tom, could we get a follow up video on these grafts? like to see how the grafts turned out.

Fabulous Sir !

I love learning about vegetables

That's a nice sharp knife!

Thank you so much. I have learned this in the school (I think 6th grade), but was not confident enough.Now I am and I can do it....Once again: T H A N K S!

Excellent instruction sir. Topworking is such an excellent technique.

Good video, informative, thanks for sharing my friend 👍

Fascinating

Hey Dave ! It's like the video cassettes, you can duplicate for your own viewing pleasure you just cant sell

thank you sir..

I bought a house with 2 apples trees and a tart cherry tree. They were very neglected. Is it possible to cut it down the trees to the size you had in the video and graft some of the branches back onto it so it has a better starting point. Or could I just trim them way back and leave that one branch to keep the tree healthy? I learn so much from your videos.

Your cool, wish you were one of the teacher down here in college most classes or online

good job

thanks to you

looks good thanks for info will subscribe

Thanks a lot . now i can grafting my persimmonn .

The problem with fruit form seeds is seedling variation. You will never get the same fruit. If you never thin the fruit it could cause alternate bearing, where it fruits only every-other year. You can graft onto it, though apricots are not the easiest to do.

Tom, I'd like you to talk about the inside reasons for using a root stock of a certain type and the advanages for using it. Also no one ever talks about graphing the cross pollinators onto the same tree. It makes sense to me but never hear it talked about.

nice job

I've always used candle wax, and that has worked.

Yes, this is it!

Yes, Aspen can be rooted from hard wood cuttings or as root sections.

I wants to try it :D

Is there an update to this video? Would love to see what it looks like after the grafting has taken off.... Thanks for a great video

I should do this with my Apple trees. I have one good tree and two bad trees. The bad trees are shaded by a grand old maple and grow straight up with very acute limb angles. I'm talking 15 digress or less. One Puts out fruit but not the other. The good tree produces very nice apples in abundance.

@bottomgunner Yes, you sure can. During the dormant season. Mid winter Januery to early February.

Scion wood should be collected during the dormant season. Wrap in moist paper towel or newspaper, and store in a zip-lock bag in the refrigerator. Graft in early spring with any method when trees begin to break dormancy.

I want to ask you one question. If I graft a old age tree, after grafting will it be like a new tree and spend a long life

Yes, you can see them all in our, Grafting a Fruit Tree playlist.

I live in the Caribbean and can't find a lot of stuff. I heard electrical tape will do but do you think a white roof sealer paint would work to seal the graft? They are flexible, fill cracks and resist mold.

Hi. I loved your video, it is great. Thank you so much. I have a question: Could you use this exactly procedure for graftin pecans?

Genius

This one cut slant will give you very poor cambium contact thus results I found out...there should be two more cuts on the side 90 degree from the first cut, this will expose cambium...thus making contact with stock on the side, your method...the cambium of stock lays on top of bark/scion. Also, these grafts on heavy stock takes years to heal in, [ugly] and prone to brake off in wind, best to cut down as you did and graft onto new sprouts the following year..in one season the graft can heal in.

You're right, he only cuts one side. Like he say's, a single back slice. It's easy to see from the close-up of him inserting the scion into the tree.

Hi Tom! i have some 10 year fruit trees (all DWN!) and some are not producing good fruit. Would it be possible to completely cut the tree to the original root stock and graft a different young tree onto it? Thinking a mature root system could help speed things along.

Thanks for the video! Do you ever use saran wrap or parafilm over the cyan wood (before tenting with the paper bag) to keep the cyan wood from drying?

thanks, Dave. I have a beautiful avocado tree which began from seed of the most delicious avocados from my neighbor's tree. I've been told my tree may not bear the same fruit. It's about 8 ft. tall, growing well but I have 2 problems. First to graft and 2nd, we are getting ready to rebuild our home and the tree will need to be moved. What is the best way to accomplish both? I'm afraid the tree will die if we try to transplant. It is happy where it is, close to our front entry and loves when I sing & play my ukulele. No kidding. By the way, I don't know what type of avocados these are but the seed is huge like the fruit, smooth skin which turns purple as it is ready for harvest. This fruit has no strings, smooth & creamy as ice cream and the flavor is buttery, excellent. There is no avocado that even comes close & I've eaten many. Any suggestions?...aloha, Lei Kailua, O'ahu

Much younger Tom Spellman before he became the famous tree whisperer.

Are apple and pears closely related enough for grafting together?

Yes, it makes perfect sense on Gods earth why it would be ilegal to grow Patened food. Somethings are just wrong. Thanks for the how to very helpful.

@bronzesel Sounds like the rootstock is growing.

Good teacher...now the teacher has to learn that we don't need GMO fruit.

@jonewer You cut just one side because you want the contact of that inside part of the scion to the inner part of the limb your grafting it too.

dave thanks for the awesome video, i was wondering what the limitations of grafting are, must grafted limbs be the same species as the base tree? I'm hoping understand much more about grafting, any books you recommend? thanks.

@bronzesel Yes, you can graft some apples onto that crabapple rootstock. It will work.

Hi Dave Wilson Nursery! I just bought a ton of your farmer's market fruit trees! They are such a great deal! BTW I grew an apricot tree from a seed and it is very erratic in fruit production over the years. I believe, probably it is because there is not enough chill. Can I graft a low chill variety on a high chill variety?

@Rottmad You can use either, I like tar.

I have always used Morrison's orchard and pruning seal, but don't see why latex wouldn't work.

@johane127 If the branch broke off completely and it was a month ago your chance of a mend at this point is not good. Japanese maples are grafted plants and will not root well from cuttings in a sand bed. Best to make sure the break is pruned to a clean cut on the tree and try to restructure to more of an upright form so future snow storms won't be as much of a problem.

Hi Tom, Thanks for your incredible videos! I am in central Florida (Lakeland) can I get some trees shipped here from your nursery that have 3 or 4 grafts of your patented Fruits that would work well in low chill?

Yes, most common citrus is compatible, and will graft easily. Multiple-budded citrus trees are available through quality retail garden centers.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. With people like you and KZfaq, I can do anything! Quick question, can I graft an apple tree onto a fruitless mulberry tree? Thanks in advance.

do you have a another video showing how the grafts grow.

Wow, this was excellent!! Are there limits to what can be grafted? Can you graft an apple into a mimosa for example? Also, can you only graft when trees are dormant?

Способы прививки везде одинаковы. Разница лишь в используемых вспомогательных материалах. Лайк!

nice job. very informative. is it posible to do that with fig trees?

Hello.Texas backyard grower here....I am interested to find out if you disturb the cambium or just the bark and the scion is on the top of the cambium though under the bark. Thank you

Hey Tom, do you think this method would work on Australian Eucalyptus Trees? Red Gums grown from seed have no guarantee of good colour. They could be creamy or pale. I want to make my own small bright red trees using known scions

Hey Dave. Great video. I am a bit of a black thumb but my kid is starting to be curious about grafting. We wanted to know, do you have to keep sighing the same fruit family or can you mix, for example, a pomegranate with an orange, or an avocado with a lemon tree? Is it possible to have a tree that will have a true mix of different fruit, within reason?

make a video showing us the fruits of this multi-grafted tree!!!

Did you take your "bud wood" on the same day you did the grafting?

Thanks for the tutorial, but something I'm a little confused about is that I have read/heard that the cambium layers of the scion wood and the nurse branch should be in contact. Does it not matter that the bark of the scion wood is between the cambium layers of the two? Hope this makes sense.

Dear Tom, Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I would like to know the best season for grafting trees. Can this be done year round? I'm considering grafting Mango trees. Is there anything I need to be aware of? Thanks

I recently drilled some holes in a good size maple tree and stuck in a few unknown wild apple tree branches. I found the tree growing on the east bank of my driveway. It was struggling for light under many bigger maple trees. I cut some of the maples back, watered it daily and got 5 small green apples, about an inch across. Then the deer got them. The branches I grafted into the holes had nice green leaves that are now dried up . Did I do this too late in spring ? Should this be done in dormancy stage of the trees? Will I get apples on a maple tree ? Thanks. Loved your video!