@TransplantedFarmgirl, If you ever want scions I would be honored to share.? I can make an updated list and mail you anything I have. The hybrid plum/cheries (pluerry) and the hybrid plum/ apricots (pluots) are expensive and sold out. It took me years to get my collection. They will graft to any plum, cherry, apricot, or peach.
Also the red fleshed apples are super hard to find. They taste like berries.
You too @CLICKYBONES
I would want to take the cuttings this week to get them in my fridge. The trees are waking up around here ready or not.
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This is an eleven year old cherry I have attached grafts of plums, peaches, nectarines, apricots, pluots, and pluerry.
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Looking good 
All my fruit trees have flowered 
best I can do is hope they make it
I did lose my cherry treeâŚmight be in a position to get one or two. What type of cherry trees ya got?
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Sorry for the slow reply. For cherries I have sweet red, lapins, and bing. My grafted cherry tree is 12 years old and I bought it without the branches being labeled. Just the pot. They are very sweet. It was a Costco special. I have sent scions of them before, just I donât know which is which. If you want scions I could cut them today and fridge them. They will be waking up any dayâŚ.
If you sprout pits this year they wonât grow true, but you can graft them over in the fall. Most pits have small fruit or sour cherries. Or you could buy cherry rootstock for 5 (usual price) dollars and grow it up. There are very many rootstock only nurseries, I would look for one semi local. I would be glad to send you dormant sticks at leaf drop this fall too, if that is better for you?
I have never mailed my grafted trees bareroot or in pot. I just sell them locally at the pta plant sales, or give them away to neighbors that express interest. I have only shipped scions to be grafted on some sort of root stock.
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I understand the shipping concern. I might be going bigger here actually.
I have decided to remove an almost dead stately pine in my yard that will open up a generous area for fruit trees. I might check out some local shops, spring sales and such. I usually buy trees at the end of fall when they are starting to go dormant and can be bought for a song. I have grown most my trees from seed, and I see it as a big science experiment in my back yard 
all my fruit trees flowered this year, I just canât wait to see harvest!!
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Paw paw are getting bigger.
Almost fruit grafting time. Harvesting my spring scionwood this week. Top working the seedlings late February. Also taking all the blueberry cuttings this week. I sell them all at the PTA plant sale and the kids school every spring. I usually bring half the inventory. Ha.
Lots of root stock:
Doing 40 peaches, 40 apples to m111 rootstock, and 40 pluots to peach stock. About half on rootstock and half on unknown seedlings. Both are 2 years old now are big enough to support grafting. Also will do a dozen pluerry grafts to cherry root stock. I started stooling my own rootstock 2 years ago from some failed trees that had good roots.
Peaches grafts will be Oregon curl free, frost, and Salish summer, and hardired nectarine.
Apples will be all red fleshed types and honeycrisp. + one crab to pollinate.
Pluots will be dapple dandy and flavor king and flavor queen.
Pluerry will be sweet treat and candy heart.
If anyone here dabbles with fruit and grafting I would be glad to mail scions. Nothing goes better with cannabis than fresh picked fruit.
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Check out this seedling Apple I randomly sprouted from a Lucy glow apple. Two year old tree. Weirdest apple I have ever seen. The leaves are red, and look like a maple leaf. Not a maple, as sure as you are you put a canna seed in that pot and not an apple. lol
This is from an apple seed!
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Anyone doing new fruit this year? I am not adding much. At 54 different fruits I am getting pretty maxed out. Only adding a replacement Pakistani mulberry and a muscadine grape. There is a new hybrid muscadine that is supposed to do ok in the wet PNW. I am super excited about that.
Otherwise just maintain the fresh eats and hope for fruit all season long. Strawberries and cherries are first up. Nothing goes better with fresh cannabis than fresh delicious fruit. Happy growing.
I didnât do a winter cannabis grow this year. Needed a break from the year round growing. Seed run in the winter in the greenhouse is the usual plan. I am glad I did take a break because I am more excited than ever for the spring cannabis sprouts.
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I actually am going to transplant my grapes to my acreage and get some muscadines out there too! Gonna put out some blackberry and raspberries out there too. This year something hit my apple trees and I lost almost all their leaves, so depending on the spring budding, might be in the market for some new ones. Kinda hope not though.
My peaches all got hit with the peach borer, and am vigilant on the plums now. Again, only the spring will tell. 
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The best way to combat peach borers is to dig the obvious ones out with a paper clip or alternately compressed air can with the straw in the hole to shoot them out. Then apply full strength neem oil concentrate with a paintbrush all over the remaining area with holes. If thereâs too many to dig out just paint them heavily so plenty of neem oil gets into the holes. Like blot it in heavily with the paint brush and pure neem. You want to gently pull back the soil at the root flare and paint the now exposed upper roots well too. Enough to wet the soil with extra. Messy sloppy over painting. The borers almost always get to the root flare too just below the soil.
After 2-3 treatments then paint the trunks with white latex cut with 25% neem oil. Apply 2 coats over 2 days right up to the first horizontal branches. The borer holes bleed a lot too so donât be surprised if you see a lot a gummy sap there. The peach tree tries to bleed them out with extra sticky sap.
This is the recipie from the founder of the fruit forum I love. He swears by it for peach borers.
Some growers also swear by mixing small amounts of sand into the latex as well to deter chewing and boring. Most peach growers do this annually in peach borer zonesâŚ
Here is his words:
âI am using 100% neem painted on, not some highly diluted spray. That is thousands of times more concentrated than a spray. I have also been doing nothing else for ten years to control borers, and it works - I have almost no borers.
I think neem is a big waste of money as itâs just an expensive horticultural oil, except for controlling peach tree borer. I in fact discovered how well it worked on borers because I had some which I was not using as I concluded it was useless, so just for kicks I thought I would see what borers thought of it.â
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My gosh thatâs great!im gonna give it a go! Thanks so much friend!!
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@noddykitty1 you must live in a very fertile climate. Itâs been my understanding that in different areas you can only grow certain fruits. Not so? Iâm not much on growing fruit, but I have 2 real nice Japanese Maples out on either side of the bottom steps that I would love to try my hand at grafting with. I havenât even yet started researching how to do it but maybe seeing this thread will light that fire under me.
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You are absolutely correct about regions and fruit. The muscadines donât thrive here normally so I have refrained. The new hybrid I am trying is supposed to take my climate better.
Sometimes we zone push too. Like pulling citrus or pineapple inside or in a geeenhouse for the winter and then back out for summer. Or inversely, trying a northern apple in the south. They need more âcold chill hoursâ to go dormant or they wonât fruit. A solution is to defoliate the tree manually around December and yank off every single leaf. It tricks it into filtering and fruit set.
I definitely have had failures and success. I have tried 3 times to do olives over 6 years and I am still buying canned olives. lol. They are not as cold hardy as I was led to believe at the tree store.
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