Topworking of older trees by the inlay bark graft is generally successful and older seedling orchards can be worked over to improved selections without difficulty so long as the stocks are of compatible strains.
We also have many, many acres of nuts being propagated by topworking to varieties rather than by letting the seedling continue to produce.
The topworking of trees in the five-acre block at Philema has been generally successful where incompatibility is not a problem.
Throughout the state we have a great deal of interest in propagation by topworking of varieties of pecans.
When cutting back the limbs in preparation for topworkingit is well to leave as many as possible of stubs or branches of small diameter.
What are the disadvantages of the slot bark method of topworking hickories?
The time for cutting back hickories in preparation for topworking is probably important and in my experience to date, autumn cutting is preferable.
In order to avoid the labor of topworking a large shagbark tree in its entirety we may graft only one or two limbs and allow stock sprouts to grow on other limbs until both stock sprouts and graft sprouts have become well branched.
Scions for topworking hickories have been employed for what I call "mediate" and "immediate" grafting.
Without regard to season for cutting in preparation for topworking it is very important to trim cut ends very smoothly with a sharp knife in order to remove ragged tissue left by the saw.
In regard to the topworking of the English walnut, several of you have seen my trees, the three trees along the highway in a ditch where they catch the wash where they have made 91/2 feet growth.
In regard to topworking pecans, I have not done much of this, but our success has been very good with what we have tried.
Topworking consists in cutting off the top of some undesirable seedling and replacing it with scions or buds from some desirable variety.
PAUL WHITE: About all I would care to say about topworking would be to ask a question.
President Morris: I have tried practically every method that has ever been described, and the only successful method that I have now has been topworking vigorous sprouts of one year's growth.
My notion is that there is a great future for topworking the various varieties of the hickory in the North to the desirable forms of the hickory, that is, of the hickory other than the Hicoria pecan.
On my farm I expect next year to devote some time to topworking the various hickories I have to the desirable varieties of the shagbark.
I say that because I know from traveling around through the country that there is a widespread impression that it is possible to have very extensive pecan orchards throughout the North by topworking the wild hickory.
Can we expect such results in topworking our own hickories?
For topworkinglarger stocks I use one of the forms of bark graft.
I do a lot oftopworking on native seedling nut trees for others.
It is rather a hard matter to give any idea as to profit, except that we gathered 23 pounds from one tree five years after topworking on a tree then about three inches in diameter.
Mr. Smith began topworking seedling trees on a side hill many years ago and has trees of good size at the present time.
He did some topworking in a large black walnut tree in the backyard, where he got a Persian walnut to grow.
I'd just like to get an opinion from some of the growers what they use for topworking stocks for grafting.
In virtually all cases of topworking hickory on pecan, or vice versa, the bark slot graft has been used.
Valuable information is also being procured in reference to the topworking or cleft grafting of the native seedling black walnut to the improved sorts.
After Care Without thoughtful after care the labor of topworking will almost certainly be lost.
As to pecans there is not much to be said; pecan varieties would usually be used for the topworking here.
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