Scion wood
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Graft and Grow Day 2025
If you are bringing along some scion wood from one of your own trees then aim to bring pencil thickness stems around 12-18in (30-45cm) long from healthy growth. Keep them moist, so place in bucket of water prior to bringing them fresh and hydrated. Grafting a fruit tree involves combining a scion with a rootstock. The scion is a young shoot or bud from a desired fruit variety. While the rootstock is the lower part of the tree that provides the root system. Image: Scion wood |
Image: Claire of the Mid-Shires Orchard Group with scion wood |
Scion wood is a young stick or shoot or sucker that is cut from a tree and used to graft onto a rootstock. This scion wood will be genetically identical to the tree from which it was taken. It is also known as grafting wood. Why do we have to graft? Many woody-stemmed plants do not ‘root’ well when propagated by cuttings, so propagators developed several grafting techniques to reproduce trees and shrubs. The Scion Swap is organised by