New Grafts – HMC Farms Update 3/9/10

Only ten days after being grafting, the new wood is already showing signs of growth. The graft taking means there was a clean seal, good wood, and that no water seeped into the exposed limb. Below are a few pictures of the growth on the same trees you saw being grafted in the previous blog.
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March 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Tree Fruit and Table Grape Update | Comments are closed

Grafting - HMC Farms Update 2/22/10

We do the best we can every year to pick out new varieties at the nursery, mostly using gut feeling about how these varieties will work in our lineup. For whatever reason, they don’t always work out. Sometimes they revert back to an old gene, not producing the way we thought they would. Other [...]

February 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Tree Fruit and Table Grape Update | Comments are closed