Apple tree grafting

Here is a good video from Midwest Whitetail on Apple tree grafting.
DT

I am going to try grafting this year. A little different than this video, but roughly the same. I have several 4-5 year old trees that produce apples the deer don’t eat. I am going to graft branches from a tree that the deer eat the apples from onto the trees they don’t like. Kind of like having giant root stock

Interesting video and gave me an idea. I have 2 wild crabapple trees on my property. They are rather old and the only time in their lives they’ve been pruned was when I started doing it. Yield is low.

I also have friends who have a good old “farmyard apple tree” of indeterminate variety, but every year it has apples on by the thousands. The taste is okay, standard pie apple, but the yield on this tree is just huge and it rarely seems to vary. It blossoms late and rarely is impacted by frost.

Hmmmmm…. graft from the farm apple onto the crab apple trees…. Hmmmmmmm….. Would it work?

BTW, for you apple tree fanatics out there. Watch Menards in the mid to late summer when they clearance out all their nursery stock. Last year I hit apple trees on clearance sale AND then it was one of those 11% off rebate deals. I got 10 gallon container size apple trees that were about 6 feet high for $12 each. The all went in the ground last August and luckily we got good rain for them, so I’m curious as heck to see if they all made it through the winter.

Grouse

Just what we need Grouse is another farm project, but if I can successfully graft my good apple to a bad tree it would be a huge victory.

sticker wrote:

Just what we need Grouse is another farm project, but if I can successfully graft my good apple to a bad tree it would be a huge victory.

You need to graft some new deer to your place–ones that dnt have the “fussy eater” gene.

Deer that don’t eat apples. Don’t they know there are starving deer in Wisconsin?

Grouse

They make a pretty slick grafting tool as well.
DT