Kg Teratai:

Oh ok. You should not cover the bud with grafting tape. There is a logical reasoning to this, i.e. if you cover the bud, it rots.

The grafting tape should just cover the top and bottom of the bud, but not the bud itself
http://autonopedia.org/garden_and_farm/Pro...n/Grafting.html

The method he was using is more towards side veneer grafting, and normally used to replace low quality trees with higher quality materials. Bud grafting deals with seedlings around 4 months old.

The following is a document on various grafting techniques:

http://www.nt.gov.au/d/Content/File/p/Tech_Bull/TB194.pdf

What is missing are less common methods, such as inarching, tuft grafting etc.

Para:

The grafting method you had mentioned before, where three plants are combined into a single plant is a variant of inarching. The link below has one picture example of this method:

http://www.mspong.org/cyclopedia/horti_pics.html





A method I'm interested to try is cleft grafting. To me, this method appears to be a cleaner method as the entire top growing point of the rootstock is removed and replaced with the target growth of the cloned plant.

This post has been edited by Michael J.: Jul 19 2012, 04:15 PM

Hi MJ,

Thank you. I will try it out this weekend. I will share the picture once I have done.

Wow, speaking on right timing, am also looking at grafting.
From my research, certain type of grafting works better on certain plants and things like size of stock & scion, experience level & etc. Had not done any grating yet as my new plants are still too tender. Looking into grafting of
Avocado
Durian
Jack fruits
Rubber trees
at the moment. Looking forward to your pics



Having problem with one of my weakest Mas Solo Papaya. It was growing well until recently, the leafs start to wither. Have not figure out what wrong.

My parents were good at grafting durian, jackfruit, and rubber tree. Too bad that i never really have chance to learn from them, i was too young that time to see them doing these thing.

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HI Farmer,

Thank you for the information.

Hi All,

My first trail for the budding. It is not easy. The knife will need to be very sharp. The selection of bud need to be very healthy.



How to get rid of the weed that grow on the tree?



The seeding of durian tree at 4th week.



This post has been edited by Kg Teratai: Jul 22 2012, 10:54 AM

Those are "GOLD COINS" haha...

normally i would hand-pick them off the tree branch.

i dont know there is any better method though

hahah.. this gold coin will suck the nutrien out of the tree.
Can not be hand pick. Some tree is very high.

Kg. Teratai + Para:

They are also known as Dragon's Scales, and are a species of climbing fern. A light herbicidal spray normally reduces the amount of growth, but you need to get the right concentration; too much, and the herbicide could damage your tree. You will want to use a contact herbicide (like Paraquat, which is banned now), or a mild systemic like glufosinate ammonium.

Here's a short abstract of what Boh Plantation did to treat their tea bushes:

Pyrrosia piloselloides, a common tropical epiphytic fern, harms its host by smothering its growth. In tea, it inhibits the regrowth and renewal of the plucking table. Manual eradication is laborious as the rhizomes adhere strongly to the branches and the fern spreads throughout and deep in the canopy. Glufosinate ammonium, at the recommended rate for weeds under shade, can kill the fern without serious damage to the tea host. Efficacy is improved with adjuvants, in particular those that are a blend of petroleum oil, their derivatives and fatty acid esters and those that contain methylsiloxane polymers. The effect of the herbicide is also much more pronounced if the fern is exposed to sunlight at time of application, as during pruning.



Dragon's Scales in low amount doesn't cause too much damage to large trees like durians, but yes, it does extract moisture from the tree bark (not nutrients). During severe droughts, it's moisture extraction activity can be severe enough to rip open the durian tree bark. This wound in turn allows pathogens and bugs to enter, thereby introducing diseases.

Thank you MJ,

Time to look for Glufosinate ammonium.

Kg Teratai:

Sure. Your local pesticide shop should have it.


As the durian season hits its tail end this month, here's a good website showing the cycle of durian fruiting, along with some of the most popular clones of durians, including pictorial identification.

http://gallery.durianss2.com/

Hi MJ,

Personally I don't like durian ss2, I have been there once and was treated by the rude staff. The staff just point to D24 and told me it is XO. I try to collect his mistake, but he continue to challenge me. Therefore, durian ss2 is out of my list because
1. they try to cheat.
2. the staff is rude.

wow i am having a big headache now...its flowering again at my place and i havent had time to fertilise and prune and do maintenance...this is really hampering me....

MJ : what else can we do apart from waiting ??? lolx

Kg Teratai:

Ah. I've never been to Durian SS2. I'm only interested with their pictures. Haa..... (Most of the durians I've had are direct from growers, and mostly in Sepang.)

But this guy, Eddie Yong, from Raub, may be well worth a visit.

http://raubdurianorchard.blogspot.com/


Para:
Waiting for flowering? Nothing much I guess... Since they are flowering now, if you prune, there's a high chance the flowers will be shed in favor of leaf growth. If you fertilize now, it could spur new leaf growth, which again, will cause flowers to fall. Unless maybe, if you control watering while applying fertilizer; just enough water for fruit development, but not enough that it spurs new leaf growth.

This post has been edited by Michael J.: Jul 25 2012, 01:05 PM

Hi MJ,

This is an ideal farm. I wish I can work towards this way and I am doing it slowly.

Hi Para.

This is an article written in mandarin. May be it can help you.

http://www.drwee.net/

I wonder if i can use foliar fertiliser ???

i am having a pump installed at the Lenggeng farm.

Kg Teratai : its a crap i cant read mandarin...zzz

Need help from sifu here to identify is this durian tree.

I ask the landscape guy to plant some durian tree in my garden, this particular tree which I am not sure whether is durian. The old leaf look same but young leaf are green unlike my other durian which are a bit brown. This one also have too many leaf unlike my other durian tree.

It is only 3 feet now but today I found a small white flower on it. Is it even possible such small durian grow flower? I have attach the photo and you can see a small flower on it.

This post has been edited by fyseng: Jul 27 2012, 04:20 PM


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It doesn't look like durian tree for me because of the leaf.

Normally durian leaf will have 2 colours, the side that facing up is green and other side facing down is brown colour.

This post has been edited by Kg Teratai: Jul 27 2012, 03:59 PM