I had no
experience grafting until this spring when I started grafting pear prunings onto callery pears scattered over my property. Results were good but pears are supposed to be easy.
Around 7/5 I purchased 3 persimmon and 1 pawpaw scions, they got lost in the mail until 7/17, my hope for success dropped from the already low point. On 7/18 I grafted these, three from each scion. When I purchased these I considered them mostly as entertainment (don't laugh, cost less than a couple going to the theater, and more fun) and hoped that I would get a couple to take. The persimmons were grafted to DV saplings along the edge of a field and the pawpaws were from MO Dept of Conservation saplings I purchased two years ago. Well, quite unexpectedly all 12 have taken, now I have questions.
How long
should I leave the electrical tape on the graft?
Should I stake or in some way support the graft/scion?
Since the persimmons are not really where I want them can I transplant them in late fall after leaves have fallen or would early spring be better? I have read that persimmons can be difficult to transplant, is this true? I can cut some surrounding
trees to open it up for more sun and leave them where they are but I did three groups of three and within the groups they are very close to each other (didn't think more than one in three would take) and would prefer to have them where I can care for them more conveniently.