okay I said I would do a demonstration on how to do the bark brown on apple tree and I'm going to take a minute and do that now pretty busy out here trying to get all these trees cut down for Victor it turns out there's 1,500 trees in this block rather than a thousand anyway this is the sign wood that we collected a few weeks ago for you remember I showed you this told you to put this in the refrigerator keep it damp keep it above freezing around 32 to 36 degrees somewhere in that range this is what you can this video is for one lonely farmer by the way who wants to try his hand at grafting this is one year sucker wood this is the wood they cut out of these apple trees what apples are very forgiving when it comes to crafting and you can use a little piece of wood like this as long as it's dormant and I'm going to show you this technique for bar crafting apples which is easiest easiest thing in the world to do easy craft to apply okay I'll get back with you on this apple grafting thing when the time is right and after the bark slipping on the trees which I showed you a couple days ago what we're trying to determine here is is this bark loose and I'm gonna lay my blade up there and pull it seep see that bark lift up off the wood that's what we want so then we'll make the graft and slip it right down under that bark and on behold it will grow take that sign wood and you cut it up into lengths of about six inches just a good length to hold on to make the cut demonstrate that cut it's just one cut on on a real straight cut on one side and that's done like that I make a little cut on the back just to make it slip under the bark a little easier but you can see how how straight that cut is how flat that is and that's what you shoot for you can start making shorter cuts get them real straight and then begin to make them longer and longer until you can make up about an inch long and a real straight cut because you want that that cambium to lay flat against the wood and I'll show you how we put those in now the rule of thumb would be about and a graft per each edge of diameter so if this is a 3-inch diameter you want to evenly spaced about 3 Graf's around that and this is the easiest graph to do so simple you've made your cut looks like that so you expose cambium on one side and you're going to make a cut in this bark and lift it up just open it up a little bit and slide that under and now that we made that cut that flat cut is laying right on the wood which is where the cambium is is between the bark and the hardwood so so when you pull this up that exposes some campion some cells slide that in I'll do it again I think I'm in frame here yeah looks like it so do another one here open that up like this cut you can do it you can do it this way if you're afraid to cut in yourself you can cut away from yourself some crafters do that I don't make a very straight cut when I do that so I tend to come the other way but anyway that's the deal just like flat cut open the bark and slip it in and then Victor Scott it's a crew doing over theirs it takes some white 1 inch white propagation tape if you can use the green tape the timeout brand green tape use about a half-inch you can use that but if you do come back and cut it later after the grafts take so that it does not girdle the tree because it won't it won't snap like this stuff this stuff will actually kind of grow and stretch with with the graft and you never have to cut it it will just deteriorate over the course of a winter in the summer it will lose its elasticity it will juice deteriorate just fall off so that is the demonstration how to do a bark graft on a tree thank you