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NoBody Special
Join Date: Dec-2007
Country: Belgium
Posts: 42
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Re:Azelea Fusing
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Originally Posted by mike108
Found sone good young cheap stock hoping to start it in the spring. See what will become of it.
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I would really like to see what you end up with if you are determined to try.
Hope this extract can be of some help to you through my notes (I do not specialise in grafting):- Stub Grafting:
Fuses remarkably easy and fast... but leaves too obvious a mark no matter how delicate you have tried blending it. - Side Grafting:
Ages to fuse… in the end; the main reason one usually goes for side grafting is the speed of things. But I honestly have not managed aanything satisfactory. - Bark grafting:
I don’t know why but only when still flowering it worked. Usually it is related to the cambium layer being active. - Veneer graft:
Good luck; I gave up - Bud grafting:
Read the above. - Approach grafting;
Never tried it… for your sake I would hope it works.
Else you may want to make wounds to their sides to promote healing into each other.
Now all these said many cultivars react differently. My most practice was with Diamond cultivar (aka: Weston’s Pink) and honestly I have never grafted a Black Satin (yours I presume?) to give you input.
All in all: of the many types I had the luxury to play with all of them definitely were slow healers and scarred pretty ugly demanding extra care and preperation.
Best of luck!
And please keep us posted!
Black
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