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Niel Liesmons13d ago

Bye bye Conference pear, welcome badass local varieties 🍐#grafting

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Dan Wedge13d ago

Sweet! Are you doing multiple branches/ varieties? How long have you been grafting? I did my first 10 trees last year

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Niel Liesmons13d ago

Third season (spread out over 8 years tho 😅). I use an omega cutter scissor thing. Huge succes rate for newbies. Local grafters selling you knifes are grifters imo 😜.

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Niel Liesmons13d ago

Yup, 3 varieties. At least two heads each.

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Niel Liesmons13d ago

Apple example of just now:

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twentyone13d ago

I’ve always been fascinated by tree grafting

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arkinox13d ago

100 pears by conference day

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Dan Wedge13d ago

Nice! Do you find that they produce without interfering with the other branches? I read that mixes tend to have the most robust take most of the energy

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Dan Wedge13d ago

Oh man, where did you get yer punch from? I am using a grafting knife

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Niel Liesmons13d ago

Don't remember. Doesn't have a brand on it neither lol. Was about €15 on some French version of Amazon. I think in English the term is grafting pliers.

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Dan Wedge13d ago

I paid like double that to draw my own blood lol 📝 47487692…

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Dan Wedge13d ago

@296842ea…ac34c17e check out this work

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Niel Liesmons13d ago

I remember going to a workshop by one of the local grifters here, when we just got into farming. Following his advise gave me: 1. Several wounds/cuts 2. Two beautiful Opinel knifes that are now unusable for anything else than grafting because I tweaked them with a bandsaw

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