Preparing Conifer Seedling Understocks For Winter Grafting

I'm showing you how to prepare seedling rootstocks aka understocks of conifers prior to grafting onto them during winter. Conifer seedlings may be purchased bare-root the spring prior and are potted up or you can purchase conifer seedlings already potted up at any time.




The seedlings need to be actively showing bud swelling or white root tip growth at the bottom of the pots or actual buds breaking and growth resuming from the buds such as that you can begin to graft onto the seedlings. For spruce, you should wait until needle and shoot growth expands from an unfolding bud while all other conifers as long as white root tips may be seen or bud swelling, then they are ready for grafting. Spruce are just better off to wait until you see growth from the buds.

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Education

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• Conifer
• Conifers
• Seedling
• Seedlings
• Understock
• Understocks
• Rootstocks
• Rootstock
• Preparing
• Preparation
• Graft
• Grafting
• Pine
• Pinus
• Pinophyta
• Bonasi
• Spruce
• Larch

[coniferblacklab]

You bet. If you can remember to bring your spruce in 7-10 days before your other understocks, they'll all be ready at the same time, should you choose to do so.

[NYBROOK711]

Good job as usual. I learned something new in your text about the the buds pushing on the spruce. I've only been grafting for a few years but my spruce percentages were always lower than my pine percentages. I grafted when I saw white tips. Now I'll wait. Thanks.

[Andalbanon]

Another great video! I hope to do some grafting one day.