How to graft Japanese Maples; Instruction and kits

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5 ай бұрын

This is a great idea from Barthelemy Maples; Kits available in season and all equipment including scion wood of many varieties plus grafting bands and rootstocks. Learn as you go, on your own and without making a tit of yourself. I would suggest practicing the carpentry with some rubber bands and any old twigs or prunings you can find.....apple tree extension growth or winter prunings is always nice and straight and a good size to get your fingers around initially before you start on the more delicate maples. Once learnt you can apply it to all manner of other plants.....even tomatoes can be grafted. Though why anyone really need to do that is beyond me.

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@bernadette1510 5 ай бұрын

Malcolm! It is so nice to see you! I was feeling neglected and terribly sad without your videos. I am so happy to see your video pop up on my feed! Thank you for the most wonderful news of you deciding against discontinuing your videos! I am sure you made many, many people very happy!

@nathanpickett7224 5 ай бұрын

You beautiful beautiful man! He's back! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 can't wait for your new videos. Went through all of your old ones for the second time. You've taught me so much about propagation. Thank you.

@janetdonohue7150 3 ай бұрын

I just want to thank you. These videos have been such a delight (informative, educational & entertaining). Best heart-felt wishes on your "retirement ".

@myragooden8667 5 ай бұрын

Miss you, glad you will be back soon.

@stevee14 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant your back

@freethinkish 5 ай бұрын

Even more looking forward to spring now

@davenadainton4209 5 ай бұрын

Oh wow! I didn't think we'd see you again as I remember you saying you were thinking about not making any more videos after 2023. I have missed you soooooo much! I miss you and your crew at the nursery, I miss your beautiful garden, I miss learning from you and even though I don't miss your smut...... I miss you and your fantastic videos massively! Thank god you are coming back!

@digsowgrow 5 ай бұрын

Roll on sping! hope you are well Malcolm. Regards Guy

@gilliansmyth7167 5 ай бұрын

What a wonderful wonderful day to hear you are coming back can't wait. 👏👏👏😘

@samai90 5 ай бұрын

Ah Malcolm, we miss you!

@christineherman3230 4 ай бұрын

Thrilled to see u back doing videos! I was feeling neglected! Gotta keep our gardens going! Love your personality!

@mrcogginsgarage7062 5 ай бұрын

Good to see you looking well Malcolm,role on spring.

@msoddsoxsox974 5 ай бұрын

Spring is just around the corner, can't wait.

@user-hh5lv3zs7j 5 ай бұрын

What a relief to see you back ,you are a brilliant teacher .

@laurenb6451 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Barthelemy’s for a masterful demonstration. Glad to see you are still doing this. Malcolm Hockham! For the longest time we have been only getting horrible news…BUT…NOW! The groundhog saw his shadow so Spring will be early this year! We have snowdrops beginning to bloom here in zone 5 NYS. More Plantsman’s videos! Huzzah! I’m telling you, nobody can blend together excellent, useable information, hilarity, and sarcasm the way you can. Plus I want to see how the garden is progressing and what you’ve been working on in the shed and the ship construction room. Etc. 💚💚💚

@stevemindham520 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, welcome back Malcolm. No one lowers the tone as well as you.!!

@adrianforbes6221 5 ай бұрын

Great news there might be some new videos. Watched the old ones multiple times.

@Plant_Mad_Paul 5 ай бұрын

Good to see you Malcolm 😁 all the best for the new growing year 🌱

@philmanray3903 5 ай бұрын

Nice to see you see you in the spring

@donnawalters1661 5 ай бұрын

Hooray you're back!!

@ClaireD247 5 ай бұрын

Lovely to see you back. I learnt so much from watching your videos 😊

@Holly_at_gypsyhollergardens 5 ай бұрын

🎉🎉🎉I missed you !!!!!

@badbooks476 5 ай бұрын

Great video & what a brilliant idea & be great to see you in the spring

@lenaolivetti9366 5 ай бұрын

Thank you you have made my day !!!!!!!

@christinewarnaar-bates3494 5 ай бұрын

Nice Barthelemy video. I was just thinking about Japanese Maples the other day, wishing I could grow some. What a great idea to have the kits! I’m looking forward to seeing your Trilliums ❤️. Thank you for coming back

@cew9837 5 ай бұрын

Cracking workshopnow! That took a lot of organising.. suits you sir! Hope you're all surviving the storms well... looking forward to some chuckles in spring...😂

@sheilaackers3854 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Malcom great to see you. Looking forward to spring.

@angela64355 5 ай бұрын

So great to see you back! 😊

@TheWoodlandOrchard 5 ай бұрын

Great to see you back. The lathe looks interesting. Hope all is well at Eggleston too.

@christineherman3230 4 ай бұрын

Great instructional!

@marshmenne8657 5 ай бұрын

Good to hear your voice and see your face.

@elizabethwoodhouse9461 5 ай бұрын

🎉 yay good to see you again

@becmckinlay5073 5 ай бұрын

Happy New Year to you both. It's 41°C here today so no gardening but thanks for a timely video about grafting. I'll be grafting citrus soon onto 2 large lemon trees that've been wrongly pruned and are all rootstock, evil thorns and foul fruit. They get a couple of goes to take or both will get the chop, no point in wasting water. Might try your method of lopping the top and grafting 5 sticks to it. Looking forward to your spring post. Stay fit and healthy, cheers to you both.

@Early100 5 ай бұрын

👍👍👍 fabulous 🙏🏼

@PamsMountainGarden 5 ай бұрын

Hey you!!

@michael769senett8 5 ай бұрын

Hi glad nice to see you and looking so well. I am not just being polite. I Will be looking out for you.

@laurenb6451 5 ай бұрын

Malcolm, if you don’t know what this is then nobody does: what in the world is Curry’s Whitefly Fume? I saw it in a video and couldn’t find it online. I was very sad that you weren’t around to ask but here you ARE!!!

@dc0145a 29 күн бұрын

Could you do a video on japanese maple pruning / shaping? I have some 5 year old trees that need pruning. They don''t have a defined leader - they are spindly. These were seedlings from Bloodgood.

@andychapman5279 Ай бұрын

BRILLIANT GIVEN ME NEW IDEAS. IS THERE A GOOD MONTH TO DO GRAFTS OR IS IT POSSIBLE ANY TIME ON THE YEAR

@pegsbarton6353 5 ай бұрын

Hi Malcolm, I'm sorry to bother you when it wasn't even your demo, but I've just watched the Bartholomy maple grafting video you put up for us. They referrred to the root stock, already planted and growing, and they've cut the top off to fascilitate the wrapping of the sion, but can I ask, because it's not mentioned..is it any sturdy tree you can graft onto, or is it a maple of some sort, just an easier one to grow one assumes. It seems to defeat the object if it takes a maple to grow another one, if you see what I mean. Thank you in anticipation, and its lovely to see you looking well. Looking forward to catching up with your happenings in the spring.

@plantsmanscorner128 5 ай бұрын

Hello Pegs; There are hundreds upon hundreds of if different maples, all with their own characteristics, specific autumn colour or spring colour, different shapes and even different bark colour as in Acer Senkaki……some grow tall and some short, but all have to be grown on maple rootstocks…..any other plant wouldn’t be genetically compatible. If for example you were to grow them from seed they wouldn’t necessarily have many of the parents characteristic….so by grafting you keep maple roots but the rest of the plant is effectively a clone of the parent….it will be exactly the same. Many plants, not just maples have dwarf versions, most often and especially rich conifers and maples these were originally grafted from a witches broom…..all the little bun or dwarf conifers and all the little round maples were likewise from witches brooms grafted onto a rootstock so you eat a dwarf plant on its own roots rather than an odd mutation way up in the tree branches. Apples for example once a nice selected form is found by crossing two parents can then be reproduced by grafting, furthermore with most fruits you can dictate the eventual size of the tree by grafting onto specifically bred rootstocks (originally bred at East Malling research station in Kent)……this allows people to have small trees in their gardens……nearly all apple trees sold are dwarfing or semi dwarfing. Most of this applies to maples and all other trees. So grafting is used to clone named varieties of maples, some have been around for many hundreds of years and it is the only way to keep the lines true…..Osakazuki is the same plant now as it was 500 years ago due to the skill of the grafters…..yes you a can grow maples from seed but they are not the original specimen that the great Japanese plantsmen developed and they won’t have all the magnificent characteristics they were originally selected for. People are still breeding maples and when they find a good one it is then named and reproduced en mass by grafting…..but it might take at least 30 years to watch it’s a bit and development. Hope that helps….Malcolm

@pegsbarton6353 4 ай бұрын

@@plantsmanscorner128 Wow! You must have been writing this reply since I watched the programme, it'll have taken you ages! I'm so sorry Malcolm, I was expecting a 'Yes' or 'No' kind of thing! It makes total sense when you've explained it and stirred memories of the lovely young lady at Bartholemys saying something about selection for particular traits in maples. This would mean though that you would need both a 'root' and a sion and know what each would do. The idea of grafting is fascinating and I may well have a go but it will have to be with something I have or can beg from my family's gardens. I will treat myself to an actual plant from Bartholemys and gaze at it with wonder. That doesn't mean all your work in writing that reply is wasted, I am going to try grafting, it sounds fascinating, it just won't be maples. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain it all to me. Hope your garden is coping with the crazy weather we've been having. It's amazing watching you bring it back to life. Best wishes to you and Lisa.👋

@williamfaulkner5506 3 ай бұрын

Hello malcolm how's it going. Just discovered your video's last week. I'm in the process of trying to start up a small scale nursery myself and I'm finding you video's very interesting and informative I'm currently watching your so you want to run a nursery series. Very informative. Are you thinking of making any video's this year. Thanks very much. William faulkner

@plantsmanscorner128 3 ай бұрын

Yes William…..I am probably going to make a monthly video from this spring. But not like the 52 week series……probably a little more light hearted. I’ve said most of what was needed to be said so I will probably be repeating myself…..but there’s other ways of making the same point and I keep getting requests to do more……I just don’t want to get boring. Good luck William with your nursery, it’s a great life and you’ll discover lots of little tricks to keep stuff interesting…..if I had my life over I’d do the same again. Best wishes….Malcolm

@williamfaulkner5506 2 ай бұрын

@plantsmanscorner128 thanks very much malcolm I'm only starting very small at the minute but hoping to make it in to a business at some stage. By the way what the weather been like with yous this year here in northern ireland we have a a very wet cold spring so far definitely not good growing weather lol.

@margarethughes3763 5 ай бұрын

You have come out of hibernation. 🎉

@marshmenne8657 4 ай бұрын

Malcolm, a couple of years back you installed some solar lighting around your patio. Do you have a review about their performance. Good, bad or so so?

@plantsmanscorner128 4 ай бұрын

I used a festoon of ‘lumify usb solar vintage lights” from the Solar Centre….they were a set of 20 and they’ve been fine…..maybe not as bright as I expected but pretty good so far. However, I also installed some low voltage ‘techmar’ lights from the ‘gardenlightshop.com………some ordinary lanterns and some colour changers……they are more difficult to install and quite expensive but have been really impressive. I was never really into garden lighting but as I’ve got old and inclined to put my feet up far more it’s been wonderful to extend the evenings in summer……the Techmar are even nice in winter. Best wishes….Malcolm