grafting

[Cornbelt]

I've never had any luck with grafting. But if I want hickorys, will a graft work on a hican? A Hican on a pecan? An english walnut onto a Bartnut, Hartnut, ot Black walnut?  And what about apples; are there certain varieties that are more compatable?  Do any of you folks graft, and if so, what is it the books don't tell you?

[rex6666]

I have never done it but my dad did lots of pecan trees.
He grafted paper shell varites onto exsisting native trees all over town.
I know he used new growth tacked it in place and wraped the graft up air tight.
He would wrap with cloth strips, then foil the varnish, after the graft showed good life for 2-3 weeks he would remove the foil, he would leave the cloth and
let help support the graft, it would rot away soon. he some times several different
varites on the same tree, small trees he would cut off at about 6 feet and put several grafts on the top.

[Cornbelt]

Used to be a clever old guy around here who did that when I was a kid, but he's gone to that Great Orchard forever. Wish I had hung around him when I had the chance.