Grafting Jackfruit Trees - How to guide.

[@coconutterrence8549]

i thought you were going to be shown how to do it for a while angela but let the prof have a go , good job lol . terry👍😀

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

I have tried in the past, but not too much success, I'm better at propagating cutting

[@anthonyanderson9326]

Super informative video. Aloha from Hawaii

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

Thank you so much. 💓

[@gardening_in_italy]

Hi I’m new on your channel,your jackfriuts looks amazing , i grow jackfriut too in Italy 🇮🇹 And I started sharing videos on my channel about my gardening experience in Italy where I grew mediterranean and suptropical plants. Thanks for sharing all this great tips

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

Thank you. I will check it out. Is the name the same as your tag above.

[@gardening_in_italy]

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 yes exactly 😊

[@Ivesy85]

Great video guys, Ian you are master Grafter!!! I have never tried grafting jackfruit I do attempt to graft durian with a success rate of about 10%.

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

Not sure about master grafter, haha. A lot of trial and error goes on before I finally work it out. How are you grafting your durian? When we visited a durian farmer in Malaysia he grafted his durian using bud grafting but used a longer piece of scion (about 1.5 to 2 inches).

[@Ivesy85]

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 like you guys I have tried many different methods and techniques I’m narrowing it down now and I think this year my success rate should be higher with durian but have found hypocotly cleft works best

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

Keep at it Ivesy.....you would be in high demand if you can nut it out 😉

[@tomgatum4330]

Good tips

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

Thank you 😊

[@tomkangave8808]

Thank you very much for the info, my question is in the first technic when do you remove the sole tape because you seem to have covered the bud?

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

We find the bud will push through the parafilm, the grafting tape we remove when the graft is about 100 mm in length

[@micktree3578]

Nice video, thxs. Do you push the plant with fertilisers or foliar stimulants ... during the process?

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

We will fertilise a month before we plan to graft.

[@AdvExplorer]

amazing work thank you for documenting it! (sorry if I asked already) do you know the cultivar name or is it just a good verity you found/grew?

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

Our trees were selected by ourselves from a large planting we did some years back.

[@Obg1]

Have you tried Airlayring thick branches? It will be faster than growing seedlings and grafting.

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

We live in a cyclone risk area, so we are more focused on having a strong root system for our orchard trees.

[@Obg1]

You can later plant near the Air layered tree a few seedlings and approach graft them to the main trunk. It will give the tree multiple tap roots and will also make it grow quicker.

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

Having a fast growing tree would just add more work in terms of pruning, I don't see how an air layered tree would be faster. Our trees start producing in 12 months

[@oDeFusEo]

I graft from new moon to first quarter first attempt of 15 trees I had 12 take I do a different graft to the ones you guys showed like the cleft but isn't has my own twist on it. What would you say is your % of success?

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

So far, we have done approximately 360, we did have to have a second attempt on a handful of trees, but they have all work

[@oDeFusEo]

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 Nice my neighbor had some of the first Jackfruit trees around Mareeba some 15-20 years ago the person that did his grafted tree's had a bad time took him 6 years to get 250 trees of Rajan/Amber his first 8 rows out of 10 are either unhealthy or dead until the person who was doing the grafts finally got it down pat and the other two rows are much better.

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

Oh, I spent months killing trees, pulling the grafts apart to work out what went wrong. Then I noticed a couple that took longer to die, and between Angela and myself, we came up with what we thought might improve our success, and hey presto it worked.

[@oDeFusEo]

@@meadowcroftfarmqld8577 Yep as my neighbor says plant seeds pick the ones that are vigorous growers as his theory is it all comes down to root stock which makes sense (good potting mix as well). I don't know if you redid a video on it but how did your cuttings go?

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

We were not very successful with the cuttings unfortunately, and one of the humidity cribs was disturbed overnight and those ones never recovered. To be fair, it was an experiment, and probably not using optimal equipment such as heat beds, misting chamber etc. Cuttings have proved to be successful by the DPI in a more controlled environment, but the success rate even then was poor. The other thing to consider about the cuttings is they are not a true root system, so we do prefer to graft if possible with cyclone risks.

[@johannesels5288]

Would you consider selling some bud wood? I have a three year old seedling in the ground and thinking of putting something really nice on it now just in case our one turns out to be average fruit.

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

Sorry, we don't sell budwood. You could try the rare fruit forums on Facebook, some of the members there will sell budwood or trees. Our variety was from a seedling trial so you never know, yours could turn out great! 😊

[@basilkomath9780]

How can i buy grafting knife

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

A good agricultural supply shop or look on line.

[@meadowcroftfarmqld8577]

Forgot to say you need to expect to pay at least $50 in order to get a quality blade with high carbon content