An Avocado Story | Snapped, Grafted and a SURPRISE!

[@OrlandoBackyardGardening]

Good luck Chris

[@pat1839]

I use thin rebar as stake for plants, it never breaks sometimes bend, but still can be used.

[@Betty599]

I just purchased a Nishikawa from Florida a month ago planted in Paso Robles Ca. It is very hard finding a nursery that sell Nishikawa that would ship to California.

[@atulshinde5212]

Does grafted scion becomes tree or just grows as branch when full grown up? Is there difference between grafted tree and tree grown from seed?

[@TrulyTropical]

Hello. When we successfully graft a piece of budwood (also called a scion) to a seedling tree (also called a rootstock tree), a full tree grows and that tree is of the same variety as the budwood used during grafting. However, if we add a scion to a branch of a partly or fully grown tree, then only that branch that was grafted to becomes the variety of the scion. One easy way to think about it, is whatever new growth occurs past the grafted scion will be the variety of that scion. As far as grafted vs non-grafted trees. Yes, there are differences. First seedling trees generally take many more years to begin growing fruit than grafted trees do. As well, seedling trees are generally not clones of the parent, but instead are a new, unknown variety that may not taste very good and may have undesirable growth habits or poor disease resistance.

[@bk1554]

Why not just graft it back on the bottom?

[@randynrx]

Absolutely

[@TrulyTropical]

Hello. Thanks for your question. While in concept regrafting the tree to the root stock is similar to how we graft avocado and mango trees here at the farm, it would be challenging to establish a secure graft union that would stay together and heal with such a large and heavy tree. But, more importantly, when you graft a scion it is relying on the built up energy in the scion to keep it alive and allow it to sprout out while the graft union is healing and the scion begins receiving water and nutrition from the root stock tree. In this case, such a large tree would likely run out of energy and die before the graft union is healed and the rootstock again providing nutrition and water to the tree. This is one of the reasons we cut the leaves off of the pieces of budwood we use for grafting. The leaves are taking energy from the scion while the graft union heals as well.