Plant grafting – method of vegetative reproduction of fruit trees and shrubs, for the improvement of fruit plants. It consists in combining a fragment of a one-year shoot, that is, the plant of the noble variety of the so-called. a rootstock or with a tree branch of a less noble variety. The plants are vaccinated from March to May (except in budding), shoots for slips are cut off before the onset of severe frosts (December) and stored in a cool cellar in moist sand, grafted branches are cut just before the procedure. One of the conditions for successful grafting of plants is a very precise adjustment of the scion to the grafted branch and securing it against breakage (wind, Pests of vegetable plants) but in such a way, so as not to inhibit its development. After grafting the plants, the top of the scion and the grafting surface should be smeared with orchard ointment.
