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Just for fun, I decided to try grafting some Monterrey oak (Quercus polymorpha) onto some live oak (Q. fusiformis) seedlings I pulled up while weeding. It looks like two of the grafts have already taken!
It’s not like it’s gonna benefit the plants much — both species grow fine around here on their own roots, but this is the first time I’ve ever vegetatively propagated any oak. I’m stoked! The next one I’m gonna try is an oak that I think is Q. breviloba — the acorns all get eaten before I can get to them.

How neat! I've always found grafting interesting, don't know much about it. Keep us up updated!

Wow, I've never had much luck grafting, but my dad used to graft citrus trees occasionally - he was in the citrus industry.

I've grafted lots of fruit trees, but never an oak - good job! Sometimes a vigorous rootstock can supercharge the top, for instance blue oaks are much slower than coastal live oak. The opposite can also be done, which is how "dwarf" trees are made.

The previous oak grafts are still pushing their buds, so today, I did some new grafts with some unusual scions. The first is Sierra oak (Quercus canbyi) — an evergreen red oak from west Texas. The other is Lacey oak (Q. laceyi) — a beatuiful white oak with smoke-colored foliage. I grafted the Q. canbyi to Q. buckelyi — Texas red oak, and the Q. laceyi to Q. fusiformis.

I’m not so confident the Q. canbyi grafts will take. The scions are small and, from what I’ve read, red oaks don’t graft well. Also, Q. buckleyi seedlings don’t have fat, tuberous root like Q. fusiformis does, so they have less reserves.

Here’s what I mean when I say live oak seedlings have tuberous roots: Those are the seedlings I grafted the Lacey oak to. I’m excited about that graft — Lacey oaks grow really slowly, but live oaks are relatively fast (for an oak). Hopefully, it’ll grow faster.