The right time
The perfect time to inoculate is either spring from May to June or summer between July and August. In the spring, the eye is focused on the driving eye. This means that the inserted eye still sprouts in summer and forms a shoot. However, this often does not mature yet and therefore freezes back in winter. For this reason, native fruit trees are mainly propagated by ooculating on the sleeping eye. This only sprouts in the coming spring, but this does not mean that it will only grow then.
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Inoculate fruit tree - instructions
The inoculation should be applied at a time of good bark solution. In addition, it should be so late in the year that the eye no longer drives. A good time is therefore between July and the beginning of September. The documents used are usually one to two years old.
Cut graft veins
Shortly beforehand, cut the grafts from this year's strong shoots. To reduce evaporation, cut off all the leaves at the same time. The leaf stalks, on the other hand, do not need to be removed because they are still useful for grafting later. If the finishing does not take place immediately after cutting, store the Reiser wrapped in a damp cloth until the appointment.
Prepare the base
On the day of grafting, first clean the root neck of the substrate with a dry cloth from dust, sand and other dirt. Disturbing shoots are also completely cut away. Now a T-cut is made on the base at the level of the intended refinement - usually about ten centimeters high - which later picks up the eye of the noble variety. The cut should only cut through the outer bark and not go into the wood.
Cutting and inserting the precious eye
Cut the eye of the noble rice and insert it as follows:
- Place the graft knife about two centimeters below the eye.
- Separate the eye from the wooden part of the shoot with a cut.
- The cut should end about two inches above the eye.
- The cut surface should be elliptical in shape.
- Carefully push the severed eye from above into the opened bark pocket of the pad.
- It should look out from the center of the incision.
- The part that protrudes from the horizontal cut of the base is cut off.
- Finally, connect the finishing point with a rubber or raffia.
- The eye remains free.
Tips
Here the focus on a sleeping eye is described. The method can also be used on eyes that are already driving, for example by chipping.
