Rain came and with the moisture weeds grew. I spent much of last month weeding around 8,000 nursery trees and 600 permanent orchard trees. I'll just say I've stayed busy. We even had to bring out the weed-whacker to control grass around the nursery bags. Along with weeding, we up potted several different varieties if fruit trees into larger root-maker bags. Our selection for the fall is looking great. The weather is cooling and people are thinking about planting again.
August will consist of more weeding and budding several hundred rootstocks for next year. Budding also know as T or Shield budding is a plant propagation technique that reduces the scion wood down to a single bud versus using a larger section of wood for grafting.
The grafted bud remains dormant until the following spring, where, if the graft took, the bud grows into a new whip (vertical growth, singled stemmed) and rootstock whip is removed by pruning above the new whip.
Checkout this description: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/propagation/budding/budding.html
I've yet to learn how to do this, but starting next week I'll have a mucho better idea.
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