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Old January 22, 2017   #37
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I have a question for Bill (or anyone else with experience). When you do your grafting, how many do you make at one time? Since I'm new to this, I can either try grafting 'a bunch' and hope I'm doing it right (maybe losing the whole lot of them), OR, I could do fewer at once and see how it goes. If I lose just those few, I figure perhaps I could have some success with a little larger plants and a different approach a week or so later. What do you think?

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Adam
I usually do enough for one whole humidity chamber which is just a clear plastic storage box from Walmart with a clear lid and clasp closure. Most of the chambers I have will hold between 24 and 28 plants so that they are held in place by each other so if I move the chamber I don't have to worry about them falling over and ruining the graft. The first week I graft I will usually do between 50 and 100 grafts and sometimes even more. When it comes to plant out time I just give away the extras. I try to do several of each combination because I never know where the failures will be. With my very favorite varieties I usually do at least 5 each of them so that I will have multiple plants to set out of those varieties.

Bill
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