have a go how to practice in there and
then we'll come out but changing varieties the method of grafting
demonstrate now is called rind grafting and it's not what they do
in nurseries when they're making a new tree this is specifically for changing
or adding varieties to existing tree service it's putting a graph on a short
row so it relies upon basis of you know sort of branches there is a thin green
stream you see that you see the difference between the wood and then
you've got the rind and there's this little thing the green streak is the
cambium layer and that's where the cells that can generate new cells and can knit
together occur and basically the whole point basically carpentry and so what so
we're just trying to get the cambium of one in contact with cambium of the other
we then seal it up to keep the moisture and the SAP in and keep rain and
organisms you know bacteria or whatever else and then you just hope to lock that
it's going to take right or left handed in your preferred hand you can keep the
knife still yourself that's quite a nice safe way of doing that's the scions
prepared like that to prepare the stock we just make a straight cut into the
bark
then sawn-off TSP and cut off fur and filed to a point and I use that to lift
the bark left lifts the bark really neat you can get fancy grafting knives from
things you know good bet you can spend sixty quid on the grafting knife with a
little thing on the end that will do that but actually a sawn-off teaspoon
see you then slide this into the slot nice and gently
and the rate one of the one of the things about doing it this time in the
edge just as the SAP is rising is that actually raised think you can lift the
bark really easily if you do it while it's still dormant the barks much harder
I just cut through the bar really you know just literally and that's out
somewhere and we're now sliding that down into where the cambium is and so
the buds has gone down inside it you leave what is called the church window
on that side so a little little gap there on that because if you slide it
right in what happens is when it heals up you get bark included in the healing
and you can get sort of brats cankers that if you leave a little church window
that helps to avoid it the church window it's cold yeah because you know he
states that sort of shy yeah then this is grafting tape again you don't need
grafting tape electricians tape worms and PTFE tape works you know it doesn't
matter anything stretchy and plastic they used to do in raffia but that's
actually quite a lot much easier using stretchy plastic um proper grafting tape
um just to grind sits photo degradable if you use electricians tape or PTFE so
you have to come and take it off after the moments and then I'm just tying it
in we go that's what that's doing that's sealing up that
I say that a nd you can actually use candle wax I don't recommend you use
pure of beeswax because wasps eat it and they are inclined to pick it off but you
know you can use and then what we're trying to do there is seal up the cut on
the anus and you want to seal also you want to see all that church window see
you around the back of there so this is plumbing now basically what we're doing
we're trying to make a watertight seal then I usually stick the end down
because one of the things I have found is the Blackbirds quite like grafting
tape moves it in their nest and then the last thing you do is you wax the tip
then you go away and hope
do we want to kind of tone one side into the family yes we could - yeah
presumably slightly off horizontals
ideal so she said
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