Making Little Trees

Reader Contribution by Andrew Weidman
Published on May 10, 2018
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A row of little trees has taken up residence in my backyard. There they stand, lined up in their pots, tucked in between the deck and the cellar entrance. Twenty-three of them to be exact: twenty apples and three pears, all freshly grafted this past March.

Grafting is not an exact science with guaranteed results. At last glance, it appears that one graft has failed, and two others look questionable. That’s not half bad, actually, when you do the math.

Most grafters gun for 95 percent success, and feel happy with 90 percent. If those two questionable grafts fail, I’m looking at 87 percent that’s awfully close to 90 percent. If they surprise me and grow, that rate jumps to the coveted 95 percent.

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