Section 1.5: Introduction – Grafting Contractors/Grafters

The author – “working hard or hardly working” ? Grafters are highly skilled and specialised in their field. There are only a handful of professional grafters worldwide and their skills cannot be passed on easilly without time spent practising over many seasons in the vineyard. Field grafters are only considered professionals after five seasons’ experience. Grafting is a skill that involves placing buds into a trunk or joining the scion to the rootstock. This can be learnt in a short tutorial; however, commercial field grafters have many years of experience, … Continued