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I have very little experience with grafted trees and would like more informed opinions, please. I splurged bigtime on a guava tree for mom’s birthday, and the tree I received had grafting tape still on it that basically started to flake apart when I touched it. I removed it to find that the graft had grown over the top of the tape, and there’s tape all the way around inside the union that I can’t get out.
I contacted the seller about it, with photos, and they said they do all their trees this way and that this is normal, and that the tree will grow fine. But the issue wasn’t the graft method, but that the tape was left on too long. And I can’t imagine that leaving grafting tape >>inside<< the tree is a healthy thing. Or am I mistaken and the tree will just grow over the tape, both on the top and on the bottom, and will be just fine?
Thanks in advance for your input.
dee-ouh-gjee
Any you’re able to pull out w/o causing much if any damage, do so
It doesn’t look to go *all the way* around which is good, but yeah you don’t want that to constrict nutrient flow as it grows
Obvious_Clerk5316
I used to graft trees and take care of them post grafting in at a wholesale nursery. This should not concern you , it’s fine. If the tree has grown to where it is now, the rubber band does not matter.
YuccaBaccata
I graft a lot of fruit trees for my orchard, it will most likely be fine, but it does look bad, and may slow the growth.
My grafts are much cleaner than that, to the point that the union can be difficult to point out in a year or 2.
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Hi all,
I don’t know how to add text to photo posts, sorry! I’m old…
I have very little experience with grafted trees and would like more informed opinions, please. I splurged bigtime on a guava tree for mom’s birthday, and the tree I received had grafting tape still on it that basically started to flake apart when I touched it. I removed it to find that the graft had grown over the top of the tape, and there’s tape all the way around inside the union that I can’t get out.
I contacted the seller about it, with photos, and they said they do all their trees this way and that this is normal, and that the tree will grow fine. But the issue wasn’t the graft method, but that the tape was left on too long. And I can’t imagine that leaving grafting tape >>inside<< the tree is a healthy thing. Or am I mistaken and the tree will just grow over the tape, both on the top and on the bottom, and will be just fine?
Thanks in advance for your input.
Any you’re able to pull out w/o causing much if any damage, do so
It doesn’t look to go *all the way* around which is good, but yeah you don’t want that to constrict nutrient flow as it grows
I used to graft trees and take care of them post grafting in at a wholesale nursery. This should not concern you , it’s fine. If the tree has grown to where it is now, the rubber band does not matter.
I graft a lot of fruit trees for my orchard, it will most likely be fine, but it does look bad, and may slow the growth.
My grafts are much cleaner than that, to the point that the union can be difficult to point out in a year or 2.