COMPLEMENTARY MANUAL GRAFTING MACHINE

The Complementary Grafting Machine allows you to perform crown grafting on plants up to 45mm in diameter.

It is used combined with the 3T or 4T grafter
Both grafting machines use the same cutting blades so you will have quick and safe grafting.

The grafting multiplication technique is used when you want to create a new plant made up of two different species.
One might think that plants of the same family are always compatible with each other and can be grafted with complete tranquility.

This does not always happen and sometimes it can even happen that different plants can be grafted with complete ease.

The lower part of the graft is called the rootstock (the host trunk section), while the upper part is called the nest.
The nest will be the new plant, the one that grows and develops and will bring new flowers and/or fruits.
Depending on the technique used, the graft can be performed using a simple bud or a twig equipped with one or more buds. In this way it is possible to create the following types of graft:

Bud grafting
Buds from one-year-old branches are used and if it is practiced in spring, it is called "vegetating bud grafting", practiced in August it will be called "dormant bud grafting".
Bud grafts are divided into: patch grafts, or patch grafts, or plug grafts when a small rectangle is removed from the rootstock (on the side of the trunk) onto which the appropriately shaped bud will be perfectly coupled; with a whistle or ring when an entire ring of bark is removed from the rootstock on which a cylinder with the bud will be superimposed.

Scion grafting
A branch with various buds is used and the grafting will preferably be carried out in the spring period.
Scion grafting involves the following techniques: common split with which 2 or 4 pieces of branch are inserted; terminal split when the two branches are grafted at their ends so that one becomes the continuation of the other; spur when you intend to graft the branch directly onto the main trunk; on horseback when the graft is similar to the common split but the split is made on the graft.

Snap-in connection

It is a type of graft in which the branch bearing the buds fits into a cavity in the rootstock.

Crown graft
It consists of inserting the graft between the bark, cut longitudinally, and the trunk of the rootstock.
This method is divided into 2 different techniques: pen: the twig is cut obliquely as if it were one of those ancient wooden pens and subsequently inserted into contact with the trunk and "covered" with the bark; pike beak or clarinet beak: the difference from the previous method is that the bark is cut in two close and parallel points longitudinally.
Grafting by approximation It is carried out by removing a section of bark from both branches and then bringing them closer and putting them in contact.
It is used to join two branches of the same plant.