Budding Out

The fruit propagation workshop went well. Two people showed up. 2 weeks later, these cherry trees are already budding out:

We got a donation of 50 more EMLA 111 apple rootstocks, which can be obtained from Willamette Nurseries for under 70 cents each. These are rooted branch cuttings, and look like this:

After grafting with a number of cedar blight-free apple varieties, these look like this:

We’ll see how well they take. We should get about 95% success.