I am looking for advice and
experience using "nurse
root grafting" on Pawpaw, American Persimmon, Seaberry,
Honey Locust, and Peach. Nurse rooting plants that are difficult to root, regularly sucker, are shrubs, are susceptible to trunk damage, have a short lifespan of individual stems, and/or are not compatible long-term with cheap rootstock seem especially valuable.
Here are a few specific questions I have:
How does the nurse root grafting work on each species? What are success rates?How long must you wait to transplant each species outside?When you have done this, have you buried the graft union in soil or kept the graft above soil and used saw dust to root the scion? Which takes longer? Which is more successful?I have read from this post that pine sawdust works on apple. Is pine a requirement? Does pine sawdust work well for rooting the above species?What was the specific process of your method?Do you have books or sources that are good references for own-root plants?
I learned about this once-common method of propagation on Eliza Greenman's blog in
this article.
Pears, Plum, and Apple are reported to work well when nurse root grafted.