Grafting 114 Apple Seedlings Onto Dwarf Rootstocks, Apple Breeding Project
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- Опубликовано: 11 мар 2017
- Grafting the seedling apples onto dwarfing rootstocks in preparation for planting in the field. Apple breeding is a long process, almost two years to get to this point. Not sure where the extra 7 minutes of black screen in this video came from!?
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apple breeding starts with pollinating one variety with another. Once the apples grow into fruits, the seeds are collected and kept cold for a couple of months before planting. I grow the apple seedlings for a season before grafting them onto a dwarfing rootstock which should induce earlier fruiting and keeps the size of the tree small.
I usually use whip and tongue and cleft grafts, depending on the size of the stock and scion. If the stock is much larger than the scion, I usually use a cleft graft. The stock and scion are the same, I always use a whip and tongue graft.
I like to paint the entire scion with grafting paint to help seal in moisture while the graft union heals. Some of my scions are already pushing new leaves out. If I see any green or the buds are expanding a lot, I'll cut them short and leave only a few dormant buds if I can find any.
We all need to be doing this and sharing results.
You have really great content! You should be waaay more popular. Keep it up! I really enjoy watching it!
Wow, this is an amazing project! can't wait to see the results!
You're giving so much information in this series that's crucial for me right now, thank you brother.
Good to see you back mate , I love this series it really quenches my thirst for knowledge .
That was a really great tutorial. The grafting portion was easy to see and understand. Thank you!
Brilliant work there Steven
Absolutely fascinating! I look forward to more apple project vids.
Fascinating 'Johnny'. Sorry to hear of the continued health issues. Stay tough.
A little tip: when you do videos like this, write down the title. So when you do a follow up video of their fruiting or growth you can come back to this video and add that new video to the end screen. It'll keep people watching more videos repetitively. Nice content man!! 👌
Awesome video I'm glad you're back
We take so very much for granted... great video.
dude this is amazing! I love all your material, such a high quality content and film. it feels I am watching an instructional movie, I have learned so much from you, thank you!, I bought some leaks from you and were amazing. Now I finally have some acres I can do some serious work. I will be one of your apples Woodstock future customers, I have ordered some apple rootstock among other trees, that I will be planting this year to make my own rootstocks. I totally get you, this is so exciting!
Really cool project! Only recently found your channel! Good stuff :)
8 minutes of black screen but still a great video. Love the color of the last piece. Even if the fruit doesn't pan out the wood might be worth the time.
keep breeding apples! You are contributing to a better futur for everyone! Also have you herd of the french trimming method to speed up fruiting spur production. with a bit of trimming you could probably have your trees fruiting in 3-4 years. Basically when the branch has 15 leaves you cut it back to 8 leaves. it should do 2 or 3 shoots from the expression of cytokine. you choose a single branch wait till it gets to 15 leaves cut to 8. Rince repeat. it increases sap pressure in the buds 1-5 and favorises spur formation.
The idea of a red fleshed apple is wonderful. What a great idea. We live in an area where there are a lot of wild apples. Only one that I know of has red meat. We grow our rootstock from seed mostly from Honey crisp. We have seen a lot of red wood probably due to the neighbors large red crab.
Hi, thanks for your videos on apple pollination. I.V. Michurin wrote, that at young age apple trees (actually any tree species) are more easily influenced vegetatively (more prone to change if grafted on some rootstock by gaining qualities of the rootstock. Not necessarily it will be influenced, but it may.). He himself grew hybrids (that he pollinated and sown) on their own roots, eventhough they may take 10 years to start fruiting (and take a lot of space). Furthermore, he wrote that during first several years of fruiting, the new (hybrid) tree morphs (develops), until its' properties, like the qualities of the fruit, settle. And during this time it can be influence by grafting a "mentor" graft into the tree. (E.g. a red fleshed variety "mentor" may influence the new hybrid to gain somewhat red colour). Anyway - thanks for your material. I am yet to try myself apple breeding in the future.
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That's well thought out. When I graft my seedlings (I do about the same number as you) I lose about 5 in every 100 because of graft failure or collar rot, so keeping the original seedling for a while makes sense. The other thing you can do is to keep the original seedling small by cutting through the tap root with a spade. (Nigel D, England)