Grafting for beginners part 3. Compatibility of peach, apricot, plum, cherry, 15 in 1 pear tree.

[@jsblastoff]

This is really helpful! Im just getting started with grafting. What would be really great is a PDF/ Diagram that described the different varieties and there respective compatible counterparts. I appreciate all your hard work and you sharing what you've learned. Thanks!

[@Boz1211111]

Internet needs more long term grafting experiments like these

[@williampaulhamus7696]

Your grafting video are the best I have ever seen

[@nickkasko2097]

Thank you!

[@sharafathussain65]

Behtareen👌

[@PinoyGrafter]

its fun having different fruit tree varieties in one tree. I have 7 varieties of mango in one tree.

[@Coolclimatetropicalfruits]

Love the info mate 👍🏻 Well explained

[@IanaBOye]

Thanks for this awesome video! Would you graft Blenheim apricot onto a Opal apple seedling or any apple tree...and how about apple onto Apricot? Thanks.

[@nickkasko2097]

No apples are not related to apricots or any stone fruit. Apricots have one stone inside, apples 10-12. Apples are more closely related to pears and quince. Hawthorn is also a much closer relative to apple than any peach or apricot. Apple will graft to hawthorn, which is a thorny bush/tree.

[@lyndysimpson1272]

I was wondering I'll be a backyard fruit tree grower but I only want my trees to be between 6 ft tall. I was wondering is it going to hurt my grafting trees because I'm not going to let him get tall like yours. Thank you for any help to my question thank you

[@nickkasko2097]

@@lyndysimpson1272 it depends on how you maintain them. If you stay on top of summer pruning then you won’t hurt the trees. If you rely on winter pruning only, the trees may suffer

[@andrejofak4787]

Hi Nick, thank you! I am new in grafting, but have plums growing like weed on my new property, but they need up to 7 or more years to mature. If I would graft peaches on this vigorous plum rootstock would it bare fruit earlier? What about grafting peaches/appricots on older plum trees? Or grafting different varieties of pear on big old pear that has sour fruits? And would Nashi be compatible with pear? Thanks!

[@nickkasko2097]

I have grafted peach onto mature plum roots before and have gotten peaches the following season, it’s possible to get like 5 feet of growth in one season with peaches. I graft all types of pears all together. All pears seem to be compatible, the only thing to watch out for is not all pears are desirable as rootstock. Large wild pear trees work very well and can be converted entirely for pear production. Just don’t graft any limbs larger than 2 inches in diameter of the grafts will have a hard time healing all the way around before the fruit load causes them to break at the graft union

[@andrejofak4787]

@@nickkasko2097 wow that is great! Thank you, may we stay connected through the power of the trees! All best from Europe, SLovenia!

[@lanewaygarden1338]

Hi Nick, does apple on quince work ? Greetings from Melbourne Harry

[@CynthiaHonomichl]

how do you create an interstem system?

[@donaldkasper8346]

I think you graft below where the variety was grafted to the root stock, so you are low on the original rootstock, not up in the variety trunk (really a grafted branch).

[@ketolion]

Great info. Can you please list all intercompatible varieties u know of? I heard winter banana is a good interstem for apple to pear

[@nickkasko2097]

I heard winter banana works for apple and pear but I haven’t used it. I have an unknown pear attached to an apple tree, have not tried any others

[@ketolion]

@@nickkasko2097 thanks. I can't find zee stem or adara but sweet treat pluerry is a cross between a plum and a sweet cherry, I'm wandering if that will work as a good interstem to go from plum to cherry

[@nickkasko2097]

@@ketolion I don’t think sweet treat will work as well as z-stem

[@jorgemartin7697]

Hello friend, good work thanks for sharing with the problem of compatibility of the pearl and manzano, I wonder if the hicieras were a semi-ringed on top of the pearl insert and does this shape limit the growing a little in this area?? can this work??

[@ericrosales6293]

Would you have any reason why satsuma plum wouldn't be a good rootstock tree for zone 8?

[@nickkasko2097]

I don’t know, you would have to test it your soil and with the fruit you want to graft to it. In my soil, European seems to do better than Asian plum. We have wet acidic soil

[@TaylorinShirewood]

Have you done any grafting using Nanking Cherry and or Pacific Chokecherry? I have Nanking Cherry coming in April, and Pacific Chokecherry harvested and planted possibly sprouting in late Feb - I'm trying to get into grafting and to grow my own rootstock and learning how to stool the rootstock I already have (OHx87, M7, M111, Geneva 202, St. Julien). Any help or tips would be much appreciated :)

[@nickkasko2097]

I have never grafted to those before, but here is some info I found that might help with cherry compatibility growingfruit.org/t/rootstock-graft-compatibility/14605

[@nickkasko2097]

I would suggest using sweet cherry rootstock for grafting sweet cherries unless your soil won’t permit for cherry roots, in that case you can use St. julian plum roots with an Adara plum or Z-stem inter stock as a bridge between the two

[@nickkasko2097]

It never hurts to experiment but what I have seen over and over again is that long term incompatibility tends to kick in many years down the road and kick off the graft if the species are too far apart. Always choose the most closely related species for long term reliable trees

[@homesteadrevivals]

We have an old coastal Washington historic homestead property (the one with hundreds of pacific crabs) that also has lots of plums. There are yellow, red, and purple American plum, some Italian plum, and a European variety similar to Mirabelle. I noticed, the other day, in an area where a helper accidentally brush hogged a cluster of Italian plums, that we have dozens and dozens of suckers coming up. I'm toying with the idea of digging them up and potting and grafting them. The thing is, Italian plum is my least favorite plum. What varieties would you recommend grafting to Italian plum rootstock in coastal Washington?

[@homesteadrevivals]

For context, the family that lived there one hundred years ago grew plums, apples, and pears, and sold them to local markets. Over the years, the farm was neglected, but the plums seem to have naturalized well.

[@nickkasko2097]

@@homesteadrevivals prune type earopean plums bloom the latest and thrive in the Pacific Northwest. Especially on the coastal side. Do you not like blue prune style plums in general or just Italian? Here on the wet side we need black knot resistant varieties like president and blue Byrd but that might mot help you if you don’t like prunes. I think you want clingstone plums. I have one variety that does very well here, it’s unknown variety but reliable producer and super early. Very juice and nothing but juice inside, so Kot good for drying, only fresh eating but very sweet and the skin is tart. You should also try dapple dandy pluot and flavor grenade pluot hybrids. I sell scion wood in January.

[@homesteadrevivals]

@@nickkasko2097 Thanks! I'll watch for your January sale.

[@WodanArsa]

Hello, I don't understand the word you're saying. connecting cherry and plum requires a bridge what are the names of the varieties.

[@michaelchase8904]

Maybe you said it somewhere in the presentation - which plum rootstock were you using? Was it St. Julian A (known for its high compatibility)? Or one of the others like Myro, Marianna, Citation, P. americana, or P. domestica.

[@nickkasko2097]

I have just begun using st. Julian A. But in the past have been using American and European plum roots. Unknown and not clonal roots. Not all plum roots do well here. Myro 29c sucks in wet soil. Citation is not the best here either.

[@callbackdons]

Nick Kasko, good video. I saw in your geodesic dome vid that you're in zone 8 ..what cherry are you growing there? I'm on the other side of the country (Columbia SC) in zone 8a. I'm working on some multi-variety stone fruit trees and would love to have some cherry ..unfortunately I don't know what my rootstock are, as they were volunteers that came up in the fence line after my neighbor removed a dying plum from her backyard. So I'm guessing possibly American Plum or Chicasaw. Would I need an interstem?

[@nickkasko2097]

I grow Rainier, Bing, Lapins, Black Angela, Black tartarian and a bunch of unknown varieties. Rainier is my favorite. I have stark gold but it hasn’t fruited yet. You will most definitely need an interstem if you want to graft any cherry onto any plum. I have had things take amd grow for a year which gives false hope because graft eventually dies if there is no interstem. I always say, choose the closest related species for grafting if your soil allows for it, even if you have to go out of your way to get the proper rootstock. It’s better to use plum for plum, peach, and apricot grafts. Unless you have clay soil or standing water, use cherry roots for cherry If you can.

[@yaoreiyorungsung9101]

Can I graft apple to peach and plum?

[@nickkasko2097]

Peach to plum yes, apple to peach, no. Stone fruit do not mix with pomes

[@Happyflute007]

Plum can be grafted to pear and pear is also a pome fruit 🤔

[@nickkasko2097]

@@Happyflute007 sorry I think I mis spoke once in the video. Plum cannot be grafted to pear

[@EricBrossard]

Hi Nick really nice video series you did there. I'm out of the U.S. so all the nam you are using like nanking Cherry totally awkward to me. I'm use to latin name could you transfer those commun to latin name?

[@nickkasko2097]

I don’t speak Latin haha 😂. You can look up all the Latin names based on the common name, I don’t know them off the top of my head

[@brandonhinton2073]

how do you graft a apple to plum?

[@nickkasko2097]

You can’t, it won’t work no matter what interstem you try to use. Apples and plums are not related.

[@travelinventor9422]

Thanks for all the plum and cherry details! I didn't catch, did you I say what plum you graft the cherry to? As far as I know pin cherry is compatible with all bush plums (Nanking cherry) all hardy plums, and most cherries. And FYI your Ukrainian pear is actually from Belarus. But nice Cyrillic!

[@nickkasko2097]

The plum that is compatible for cherry is called Z-stem. Ya many of my Varieties from Ukraine did not actually originate there.

[@hunterreed1010]

PLEASE Lord can someone tell me if you can graft an apricot ONTO a mature sweet cherry tree???

[@nickkasko2097]

No you cannot do it directly to the cherry. You can graft z stem or adara plum and then graft the apricot to it. You may get the apricot to survive one or two seasons grafted directly to the cherry without the bridge (stem) but it will most likely be rejected and the graft will fail

[@ericrosales6293]

What interstem do you know aside from adara to graft plum and other stone fruits to cherry? Have you worked with grafting plum to bing cherry? I grafted several plums to our (suspected) bing cherry a couple of weeks ago and so far, it looks like plums Santa Rosa, satsuma, early Italian, and french prune plum are taking.

[@chappellsorchardwhackygraf2012]

He mentioned that he is using Floyd Zaiger's Z-stem which I believe is off patent this month. Dave Wilson uses it with citation for creating their multi-graft trees.

[@ericrosales6293]

Do you have samples of a japanese plum rootstock/interstock like satsuma grafted with european plum like green gage or mirabelle?

[@nickkasko2097]

@@ericrosales6293 yes the one in the video with beauty plum and Italian prune side by side are both on European plum

[@nickkasko2097]

I have grafted plum onto cherry before. Takes pretty well but don’t be fooled. The graft will die in 2 years:

[@ericrosales6293]

@@nickkasko2097 do you have one the other way around where the rootstock is japanese and the scions are europeans?

[@michaldurana4227]

Hi Nick, this is for me great video and unpayables information.. thank you for that. Long time I search a bridge between plums and cherries. And now I see this :).. I made a lot of attempts to graft cherry onto plum or vice versa, but without success. I tried several varietes of plums,peaches, apricots to join them with cherries, but nothing happens. I was inspirated by the fruit of 40fruits by Sam Van Aken, you certainly know him. In august I vaccinated a chip from cherry onto young myrobalan tree, and it works in the way that the scion develop 4 leaves,but then winter came.. I read a lot of possibilities but here in Slovakia we don't have the Adara. Do you know some other options? Could you recommend some? In one comment you mention Z stem.. sorry, I have no idea what it is.. :) is it another option of bridge between plums and cherries? Thank you very much for your answer

[@nickkasko2097]

Z-stem is another plum similar to adara.

[@michaldurana4227]

@@nickkasko2097 thank you, do you think,that Pluerry can be a alternative? If it is a hybrid cherry x plum? Thanks

[@nickkasko2097]

@@michaldurana4227 it seems like the pluerry would make sense but I have not seen anyone graft cherry to it yet. I think z-stem is better for that purpose

[@michaldurana4227]

@@nickkasko2097 thanks, sorry for still asking:), but the last one if I could :),.. where or how can one get the Z-stem plum, or can you write the whole(oficial) name of this plant?, Thanks a lot. :)

[@nickkasko2097]

@@michaldurana4227 anywhere you can buy a tree that has 4 or five in 1, plum, apricot, peach and cherry on one tree, you know they used z-stem as the bridge. All you need to do it notch the stem and get a shoot from it.

[@sethraabe7199]

Awesome video! I can’t wait to go through and watch them all! I’m curious if there are other things you can graft on to Mountain Ash other than Shipova?? Also, have you grafted onto wild plum (prunus americana), and do you know if that’s compatible with both Japanese and European plums? Thanks so much!!

[@nickkasko2097]

From my experience, all plums are compatible. There could possibly be a vigor mismatch many years down the road with euro and asian. So they will all work but the question is how long? I’m no expert but I bet you can get at least 20 years grafting European and Asian and probably more with American and euro. But if you are trying to establish long term trees, give them the longest possible life, then stick to the same species.

[@mimibergerac7792]

Nice interstem video. I found a comment and then some research papers indicating a good part of non astringent kaki is not 100% compatible to diospyros lotus but an astringent variety interstem should overcome it.

[@nickkasko2097]

I hate lotus rootstock anyway.

[@AbelGutierrez7777]

I grafted sweet cherries on to a Santa Rosa rootstock 12 of 16 are growing pretty well, I tried last year on one tree it grew about 4 feet and it's growing pretty well this year. Let's see what hapens.

[@nickkasko2097]

Let me know if it it makes it past year 3. Most cherry on plum will die unless you have discovered a new compatible one similar to Adara or Z stem

[@AbelGutierrez7777]

I will.

[@alessandromariani3015]

I don't understand .. ash trees and pears? aren't 2 compleate different trees?

[@nickkasko2097]

Pears are actually the most entangled species. They are related and compatible to many different trees and shrubs. They can be grafted to mountain ash, hawthorn, apple, aronia, Saskatoon, cotoneaster and a few others. Grafting cross species like that does have many challenges. Mountain ash is probably a closer relative to pear than apples and they have been cross pollinated and produced a hybrid. You can only do that if they are in the same kind. One can never cross a mango and a pear. They are simply a different kind.

[@alessandromariani3015]

@@nickkasko2097 thz i didn't know that at all, about the ash trees. Then the ash tree is in the family of the rosaceae?

[@nickkasko2097]

@@alessandromariani3015 that is correct. And the genus is Sorbus. And pear grafts to ash more easily than to apple

[@alessandromariani3015]

@@nickkasko2097 Anyway i don't understand what you are talking about, i checked the family of the ash trees and it's Oleaceae lol. Have you confused the trees?

[@nickkasko2097]

@@alessandromariani3015 google mountain ash, it’s in the Rosaceae family, sorbus genus. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbus_americana But even if it wasn’t, those classifications are not set in stone. They are constantly changing. Who decides what is in the same family anyway? There are way too many metrics to go by. it cross breeds with pear and produces hybrid ash pears called shipova. You cannot get non related fruit to cross and produce offspring.

[@trianglecenter]

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[@nickkasko2097]

Bro if you need any apple or pear trees let me know, will be selling trees this January

[@trianglecenter]

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[@nickkasko2097]

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[@N0bull]

Frankenfarm!

[@Jronesfpv]

all these grafting videos and theres no fruit in any tree

[@nickkasko2097]

Usually most of the grafting is done before the fruit forms, don’t worry, the fruit will be seen in later videos!

[@nickkasko2097]

Hope you finally got to see the fruit. I now have more fruit videos than graft videos 😄

[@GoBlue576966]

I heard that peach and apricot are compatible. Have seen this to be the case?

[@nickkasko2097]

Yes they are but not all

[@GoBlue576966]

@@nickkasko2097 Naturally. Ugh. Thank you.

[@surenderchilwal1018]

can pear be grafted on cherry rootstock

[@nickkasko2097]

No different genus