Pruning Weeping Cherry Trees and Other Grafted and Budded Plants
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Article by: Michael McGroarty What do the terms grafting and budding mean? Budding is a form of grafting. Grafting is the art of attaching a piece of one plant , Cedar Benches: A Fine Choice for Your Garden to another plant, , Making a New Lawn From Seed or Sod creating a new plant. , Soil Plus Compost Equals Lush Healthy s Grafting is usually done because the desired plant , How To Keep Birds Off Of Your Patio Furniture is extremely difficult if not impossible to propagate through other means. Dogwoods, for example, are easily grown from seed, , Choosing the Right Mower however, it is next to impossible to grow , Protecting your Garden Pond from Pesky Predators a Pink , Easy Hypertufa Planters Dogwood from seed. , Lawn Mower Racing The seeds , Secrets To Beautiful Shade Gardens from a Pink , Choosing the Right Sprinkler System Dogwood will produce seedlings that are likely to flower , Choosing the Right Mower white. The most common method for producing Pink , Organic or Chemical Feeding of Plants - What's Best Dogwood trees , Gardening - Hibiscus Plant Care is to remove a single bud , Secrets To Beautiful Shade Gardens from a Pink , Adirondack Furniture - What It is and Why You Want It Dogwood tree , US Flag Etiquette and slip it under the bark of a White , Organic or Chemical Feeding of Plants - What's Best Dogwood seedling. This process is known as budding, and the seedling is known as the rootstock. This is usually done during the late summer , Replacing Tree Blossoms with Hanging Baskets months when the bark of the White , Creating Woodland Gardens Dogwood seedling can be easily separated from the tree, , Herbal Medicine Chest in Your Backyard and the seedling is about 1/4" in diameter. A very small "T" shaped cut is made in the bark only, and the bud , Landscaping for Wildlife is slipped in the slot. The actual bud , Park Benches itself is allowed to poke out through the opening and then the wound is wrapped with a rubber band both above and below the bud. , A Beginners Guide To Garden Bridges By the following spring , Soil Plus Compost Equals Lush Healthy Plants the bud , Planting and Caring for Flower Bulbs will have grafted itself to the seedling, at which time the seedling is cut off just above the Pink , How To Start Your Garden From Seeds The Right Way Dogwood bud, , Edible Flowers and the bud , How To Start Your Garden From Seeds The Right Way then grows , A Beginners Guide To Garden Bridges into a Pink , Beneficial Mycorrhizae - Your Plant's Best Friend Dogwood tree. , Selecting Your Gardening Tools Budding is usually done at ground level, and often times the rootstock will send up shoots from below the bud , Iris Flowers Remind Me Of Mom! union. These shoots, often called suckers, should be removed as soon as they appear because they are from the rootstock and are not the same variety as the rest of the plant. , Secrets To Beautiful Shade Gardens Flowering , Landscaping of Hindu Religious Places Crabapples are also budded and are notorious for producing suckers. When removing these suckers don't just clip them off at ground level with pruning , A Beginners Guide To Garden Bridges shears, they will just grow , Landscaping for Wildlife back. Pull back the soil , Secrets To Beautiful Shade Gardens or mulch and remove them from the tree , Lawn Mower Racing completely at the point where they emerge from the stem. Most people clip them off a couple of inches from the ground, and then they grow , Terrace Gardening And Landscaping Ideas back with multiple shoots. This drives me crazy! Get down as low as you can and remove them completely and you will keep them under control. On older trees , Cedar Benches: A Fine Choice for Your Garden that have been improperly pruned for years I take a digging spade and literally attack these suckers hacking them away from the stem. Sure this does a little damage to the stem of the tree, , Roses and Juniper Rock Gardens but when a plant , Roses and Juniper Rock Gardens is let go like that I figure it's a do or die situation. The trees , Organic or Chemical Feeding of Plants - What's Best always survive and thrive. Other plants , Replacing Tree Blossoms with Hanging Baskets are grafted up high to create a weeping effect. One of the most popular trees , The Heralded Teak Furniture Manufacturer: Kingsley-Bate that is grafted up high is the top graft Weeping Cherry. In this case the seedling is allowed to grow , How To Keep Birds Off Of Your Patio Furniture to a height of 5', then the weeping variety is grafted on to the rootstock at a height of about 5'. This creates an umbrella type effect. In this case the graft union is 5' off the ground, therefore anything that grows , Insect Spray Warnings and Healthy Alternatives from the stem below that graft union must be removed. Many people don't understand this and before they know it they have a branch 2" in diameter growing , Iris Flowers Remind Me Of Mom! up through the weeping canopy of their tree. , Cedar Benches: A Fine Choice for Your Garden Before you know it there are several branches growing , Edible Flowers upright through the canopy and the effect of the plant , Patio Canopies: Protecting Your Patio From The Elements is completely ruined. At my website, http://gardening-articles.com I've got a couple of photos that show exactly what I'm talking about in this article. You can clearly see the weeping effect that the Weeping Cherry tree , Picking up Roses for Your Landscape is supposed to have, but then up through the middle come these branches that are no more than just suckers from the stem, or the rootstock as it is known in the nursery industry. Looking closely at the photos you can see that these suckers originate from below the graft union. This problem could have been prevented if someone had just picked off these buds , Replacing Tree Blossoms with Hanging Baskets when they first emerged on the stem of the tree. , Cedar Benches: A Fine Choice for Your Garden Then they would have never developed into branches. This tree , Lawn Mower Racing can still be saved, but there will be a large scar on the stem when the upright branches are pruned off. But under the canopy of the weeping tree , Picking up Roses for Your Landscape these scars will never show. Another interesting plant , The Indoor Garden: s that Clean the Air that is grafted is the Weeping Cotoneaster. In this case the seedling that is grown to serve as the rootstock is Paul's Scarlet Hawthorn, and Cotoneaster Apiculata is grafted onto the Hawthorn rootstock at a height of 5'. Years ago a nurseryman found through experimentation that these two plants , Cedar Benches: A Fine Choice for Your Garden are actually compatible, and a beautiful , Giving Seeds What They Need In Storage and unique plant , ing and Caring for Flower Bulbs was created. I have one of these in my landscape , Fish Health in Hot Summer Heat and we love it. Once again since the graft union is at 5', any growth coming from the stem (rootstock) must be removed. In this case the growth coming from the rootstock will be Hawthorn and will look completely different from the Cotoneaster which is what the plant , Man Made Puddle is supposed to be. The easiest way to keep up with this type of pruning , Giving Seeds What They Need In Storage is to keep an eye on your grafted plants , How To Keep Birds Off Of Your Patio Furniture when you're in the yard. , How To Start Your Garden From Seeds The Right Way As soon as you see new growth coming from below the graft union, just pick it off with your fingernail. If you catch these new buds , Edible Flowers when they first emerge, pruning , Making a New Lawn From Seed or Sod them off is as easy as that. Walk around your yard , Growing Ginseng and look for grafted or budded plants, , The Cottage Garden and see if you can find any that have growth that doesn't seem to match the rest of the plant. , Bonsai Trees - Our Own Little Forest Look closely and you may find that the growth is coming from below a graft or bud , Selecting Your Gardening Tools union. You are welcome to use this article on your website or in your newsletter as long as you reprint it as is, including the contact information , Secrets To Beautiful Shade Gardens at the end. Website URLs must be active links. You are welcome to use this article with an affiliate link, http://www.freeplants.com/resellers.htmMichael J. McGroarty is the author of this article. Visit his most interesting website, http://www.freeplants.com and sign up for his excellent gardening , Terrace And Landscaping Ideas newsletter. Article provided by http://gardening-articles.com |
  
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