The art of vaccination is best learned in the spring. In a month's time we will be able to perform a very simple type of vaccination called spring vaccination.We can also often come across the term tree transplantation in spring.If for some reason the tree does not meet our expectations or we want to have two varieties on one trunk, we can easily perform this type of grafting ourselves.
It consists in placing a thin shoot of another noble variety behind the bark of a selected tree. For this purpose, we use older, several-year-old trees that already grow in the garden. The only thing we will need to perform the procedure is an ordinary ball, a sharp knife (preferably a graft or an eyeliner), a piece of string and orchard ointment.
Grafting trees using the bark method (the so-called sheepskin coat) step by step
- Cut a few he althy annual shoots (so-called slips) from a tree that bears valuable fruit.
- On the scion, select the middle section with a few stitches approx. 10 centimeters long. Cut off the lower and upper parts of the shoot and discard.
-Use a sharp knife to cut the thicker part of the scion as obliquely as possible.
- On the tree to be transplanted, choose a not too thick 2-3-year-old branch.
- Cut off the selected shoot, leaving only a pin about 20 centimeters long.
- Make a longitudinal incision of a few centimeters in the spigot (from the place of the cut towards the trunk).
- Open the edges of the bark and insert the sloping scion.
-We tie the whole thing with a string to press the wood of the scion against the wood of the branches, and coat it with orchard ointment.
- After a few or a dozen or so weeks, when the scion sprouts leaves and grows with the tree, pull the string off.
- On a tree, we can put on one or more scions on different branches.
