[Kleftiwallah]

Last year during early winter, I took scions from apple trees, stored them over winter as informed on knowledgeable web pages and grafted them onto trees in early spring and had a 100% failure rate.

This winter or early spring I'm going to try again but without keeping the scions in a bucket of compost as instructed.  I'm going to take them and graft directly without waiting.   My question is, do I do the deed now before winter hits, in the depths of winter, early spring or when I see actual growth in the tree to which I shall graft. :blink:

So the question is when for the best chance of success?    Over to you lot.   

   Cheers,     Tony.

[Aunt Sally]

This should make it all clear Tony.

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/Profile.aspx?pid=443

[Trillium]

Perhaps the pros have buckets of compost with special preservatives to store cuttings, but we ordinary mortals won't know that secret.

The cuttings I've seen done have always been off the tree and directly onto the graft area, no waiting. And, it's usually done in late winter, just before leafing but when the new sap starts to flow and bring growth hormones with it. I'd say about late Feb depending on how your weather is.

[Kleftiwallah]

Thanks for that Trillium,  my thoughts were along the same lines.   :blink:    Cheers,    Tony.