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david w.:
Great post.  really cool stuff

Marc St Louis:
Interesting.  I tried my hand at grafting about 20 years ago with poor success.  I had 2 grafts out of a dozen take but then they died off after a year

HoBow:
Cameroo- I've seen a tree that had two types of fruit on it.  I assumed they grafted different limbs on one tree ???

Postman:
Thanks guys! - The pro's can do different trees together, I assume they have special techniques or use hormones that help.

I think the T-Graft is doomed - I used the wrong scion - I cut 2 and grabbed the "mistake" one.  I didn't have enough cambium on that one on the top part. It should fill in the whole "T". Didn't notice it till now...

There are very good videos online that you can check out. Timing seems to be everything - The bing host that has it's leaves out a bit more will probably be more receptive  -more sap is flowing. 

Pat B:
I have tried my hand at this but with the same results as Marc. I do have a friend that graphs about 10,000 Japanese Maples every year.
 One of our landscape client has an apple tree with 4 different apples grafted to one tree. I believe the grafts have to be the same genus and maybe more specific that that.  Most fruit trees today are grafted. Generally the top growth of the fruit variety is grafted to a hardy root stock. Most wine grapes in the world are now grafted on American native grape stock because of it's hardiness and disease resistance.

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